Jude Atemanke

1 week ago | aciafrica.org | Jude Atemanke

Vatican, 04 May, 2025 / 4:31 pm (ACI Africa). Since his election in March 2013, Pope Francis prioritized the promotion of peace, an outreach to marginalized communities, including advocacy for the dignity of the poor, migrants, refugees, and the elderly, and the fostering of interfaith dialogue, and social justice, among other values.

1 week ago | aciafrica.org | Jude Atemanke

Port Louis, 01 May, 2025 / 6:27 pm (ACI Africa). Maurice Cardinal Piat of Mauritius has eulogized the late Pope Francis as a true spiritual  Father and a guiding light for the Church’s mission to the poor and marginalized. Speaking to journalists in Rome on April 27, a day after the laying to rest of the late Pontiff following his passing on Easter Monday, April 21, Cardinal Piat shared his gratitude for Pope Francis’ life and leadership. “It is a state of deep sadness and emotion.

2 weeks ago | aciafrica.org | Jude Atemanke

Edea, 29 April, 2025 / 4:42 pm (ACI Africa). The President of the National Episcopal Conference of Cameroon (NECC) has paid glowing tribute to the late Pope Francis, who was laid to rest on April 26, affirming that the people of God in the Central African nation will “greatly miss” the late Pontiff.

2 weeks ago | aciafrica.org | Agnes Aineah |Jude Atemanke

Nairobi, 25 April, 2025 / 7:46 pm (ACI Africa). From a son of a rubber tapper in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to a Bishop-elect who was rejected by the Diocese to which he had been appointed in Nigeria, and to a young Priest who spent a year in an Ethiopian jail, the stories of the Cardinals Pope Francis created in Africa are awe-inspiring. Since his election on 13 March 2013, Pope Francis created 163 Cardinals in 10 Consistories.

2 weeks ago | aciafrica.org | Agnes Aineah |Jude Atemanke

Nairobi, 25 April, 2025 / 6:46 pm (ACI Africa). From a son of a rubber tapper in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to a Bishop-elect who was rejected by the Diocese to which he had been appointed in Nigeria, and to a young Priest who spent a year in an Ethiopian jail, the stories of the Cardinals Pope Francis created in Africa are awe-inspiring. Since his election on 13 March 2013, Pope Francis has created 163 Cardinals in 10 Consistories.