CEPACS-SECAM/FL/Vatican. 01/2016 August 1, 2016 Rev. Fr. Federico Lombardi, SJ Out-going Papal Spokesman Vatican City Dear Fr. Lombardi, APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE FOR YOUR INVALUABLE SERVICES I wish on behalf of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) and in my own name to express our sincere thanks and appreciation for the invaluable […]

This plenary session marks the official launch of the new interactive features of the SECAM website: SECAM.org or SCEAM.org. Today marks the culmination of six months of intensive work on the improved networking functionality of the SECAM.org website. The communications office of SECAM, and the newly launched CEPACS, tasked our Catholic multimedia production house, based in Cape Town, to produce […]

In 2005 the late Bishop Justin Samba of the Diocese of Musoma and TEC requested the Holy See to declare Nyerere a saint. On May 13, 2005 the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI declared Julius Kambarage Nyerere the Servant of God which was also the first step for the start of the beatification and finally […]

The Face of the Conference The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) is made up of 29 Dioceses, including the Dioceses of Gaborone and Francistown (Botswana) and the Diocese of Manzini (Swaziland). Since 2013 six new bishops have been ordained. There are 31 bishops, of these two were recently ordained. There are two auxiliary bishops […]

The context of this visit is the concern expressed in our last plenary meeting, having heard reports of political instability that focused on the insistence of the president of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza to run for the third them. As we heard this resulted into violent protests, with many people being killed and others exiled. We […]

Your Eminences Your Excellencies PREAMBLE It is a great honour for me to make this report to the 17th SECAM Plenary Assembly, since my election in Kinshasa (DRC) in July 2013. I then humbly accepted your confidence in me and pledged to do my best as the President of SECAM. I pledged to make SECAM […]

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE OF SECAM JULY 24, 2016 NR. 3 Archbishop Mbilingi has been re-elected President of SECAM The 17th Plenary Assembly of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) has ended today in Luanda, Angola with the re-election of Most Rev. Gabriel Mbilingi of Lubango, Angola as President […]

The UNIAPAC Africa is a regional association, proclaimed on February 26, 2010 in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, which has its headquarters. Based on the teachings of the Social Doctrine of the Church and inserted in UNIAPAC International, founded in 1931, whose headquarters is in Brussels, Belgium and is represented in 36 countries, UNIAPAC-Africa’s mission […]

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