Jubilee 2025: Faith Leaders Petition G20 to Cancel Unjust Debts

by Sheila Pires | Nov 3, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured, Justice and Peace

As the world observes the 2025 Jubilee Year, faith leaders across South Africa have united in a bold call for debt cancellation and global financial reform. On Monday, November 3, 2025, a multi-faith delegation, led by the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference...

Priestly Well-Being in Focus: Carmelite Sister Addresses Mental Health at IMBISA Workshop

by Sheila Pires | Oct 28, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured

Clergy from Southern Africa are gathered in Pretoria Archdiocese for a four-day workshop on mental health. The week-long program brings together priests from across the six episcopal conferences (Angola and São Tomé -CEAST, Botswana, Eswatini and South Africa -SACBC,...

Feed. Heal. Liberate. Africa: Church Leads Call for Debt Justice and Human Dignity Ahead of G20

by Sheila Pires | Oct 27, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured, Justice and Peace

At a time when the world looks to Africa for both moral and developmental leadership, the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC), through its Justice and Peace Commission, in collaboration with Caritas Africa, Jesuits Africa, and Catholic Sisters’...

Priests In Mariannhill Diocese Embrace the Synod on Synodality Implementation Phase

by Sheila Pires | Oct 22, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured, synodality

The Diocese of Mariannhill has taken a significant step forward in the implementation phase of the Synod on Synodality, joining dioceses across the region in responding to Pope Francis’s call for a Church that journeys together in communion, participation, and...

“Vocations must also come from South Africa”: Missionaries of Africa Celebrate 50 Years of Service

by Sheila Pires | Oct 20, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured

On World Mission Sunday, the Missionaries of Africa (M.Afr), commonly known as the White Fathers, celebrated 50 years of service in South Africa with a solemn and joyful Golden Jubilee Mass at the Cathedral of Christ the King, the mother church of the Archdiocese of...

The church belongs to all of us”: Bishop Zungu OFM on the role of the laity in a synodal church

by Sheila Pires | Oct 18, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured, Laity

Members of the Department for Formation, Life and Apostolate of the Laity of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) gathered at Lumko Institute Retreat Conference Centre in Benoni for the biannual meeting. The 17 to 19 October meeting held under the...

Foundation Newsletter October 2025 – 1

by danvdb | Oct 14, 2025 | Bishops Foundation Newsletter

Foundation Newsletter October (1) 2025 October brought more than just the change of seasons — it marked a stirring call to action for Christians around the world. In his first apostolic exhortation, Dilexi Te (“I Have Loved You”), Pope Leo XIV continues the legacy of...

“Rise up in mission”: Talitha Kum International Coordinator Urges Consecrated Life to Confront Human Trafficking

by Sheila Pires | Oct 13, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured, Migrants and Refugees Office

Over 30 religious sisters from Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, and South Africa have gathered at the Padre Pio Retreat and Conference Centre for a regional formation training on human trafficking, organized by Talitha Kum International. The five-day workshop, from...

Bishop Phalana: Synodality Calls for “Transformation in the Church structures, in the way of doing things”

by Sheila Pires | Oct 13, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured

The 14th Plenary Assembly and Golden Jubilee of the Interregional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa (IMBISA) offered bishops from across the region an opportunity to reflect on the Church’s mission of communion, service, and renewal. Among them was Bishop Victor...

Mons. Giacomo Antonicelli: Serving Five Nations in the Spirit of Communion and Mission

by Sheila Pires | Oct 12, 2025 | Uncategorized, Featured

In an exclusive interview with the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) Communication Office, the newly appointed Secretary of the Apostolic Nunciature in South Africa shared his personal journey, calling to the priesthood, and vision for service to...