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Religious Leaders Gather in Johannesburg to Tackle Statelessness - Hosted by SACBC in partnership with Jesuits Southern Africa (SAP), LHR, and the Southern African Nationality Network (SANN), the meeting aims to take concrete steps toward eradicating statelessness in the region.
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Department of Migrants, Refugees and Human Trafficking of SACBC empowering priests, religious and lay faithful on the need for Pastoral Care and advocacy for migrants and refugees.
Directors are Rampe Hlobo SJ, Sr Neide Lamperti MSCS, and Ms Lusungu Phiri – at Kroonstad, South Africa
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Collaboration with the @SacbcMigration at the Leadership & Management Training/Workshop of Refugee Pastoral Care in the Archdiocese of #Durban. #PastoralCare #CatholicMigration #forcedmigration #Statelessness #AsylumSeeker #HumanTrafficking #RefugeePastoralCare – at Pinetown, South Africa
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Sudafrica. Palazzo dei migranti in fiamme a Johannesburg: salgono a 73 le vittime buff.ly/3QXVV0x
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2023 marks ten years since Nelson Mandela passed. Is life better in South Africa than it was ten years ago? He did something about the conditions he faced, what are you doing about SA today? What difference will you make this #MandelaDay #702Breakfast
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🤝🌍 The Catholic Church joined the #WorldRefugeeDay with different initiatives. Among others, there were initiatives in the African Continent, in countries such as Angola, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and South Africa.👇
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@SacbcMigration @Cepami_Oficial
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Not such a happy Youth Day for these children outside Cape Town who got trapped and had to spend the night in the local church. Unfortunately, even the fire engine evacuating them collapsed. #CaritasCapeTown was able to assist them with blankets, sleeping bags, plates and cups
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Bishop Jose Ponce de Leon of Manzini Diocese together with the SACBC President Bishop Sithembele Sipuka of Mthatha Diocese and Archbishop Zolile Mpambani of Bloemfontein Archdiocese share their insights about the Ad Limina Visit.
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We met the Auxiliary Bishop of #Khartoum, Msgr. Daniel Marco Kur Adwok. He explained the dire situation in #Sudan after the escalation of the fighting between military forces and armed militia fighters. Read more: caritas.org/2023/06/auxiliar…
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In a speech delivered by Card. Michael Czerny S.J. to Caritas Africa, @jesuitczerny addressed three topics in support of Caritas Africa:
1. Practicing listening,
2. Interpreting the signs of the times
3. Appreciating Catholic social teaching.
Image courtesy: @VaticanNews
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Today the 22nd General Assembly of Caritas Internationalis elected
Alistair Chad Dutton new Secretary General of the Caritas Confederation. We wish him God's blessings for his new mission. Let us work together to build #newpathsoffraternity. #GA2023Caritas
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Cardinal Michael Czerny SJ (Fr Dumisani @dumisanivilakat at his side) from the Dicastery for promoting integral human development addressing the Caritas Africa regional assembly in Rome
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During the recent @SCEAM_SECAM virtual Conference, Archbishop #ButiTlhagale of #Johannesburg, highlighted endless conflicts & #HumanTrafficking among causes of #Statelessness. #IBelong #Stateless #EndStatelessness #CatholicMigration sacbc.org.za/archbishop-tlha… @M_RSection @ICMC_news
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Did you know?
All pregnant women, lactating women and children under the age of 6 can now access free healthcare at government facilities regardless of nationality or documentation status - ruling from Johannesburg High Court
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The Johannesburg High Court has ruled that pregnant women and children under the age of six have a right to free healthcare regardless of their nationality and documentation status. Claire Waterhouse weighs in.
Watch: bit.ly/41sqxth
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"We are called upon to create and identify Pastoral programs that are able to assist migrants and refugees in our communities" SACBC Liaison Bishop for Migrants and Refugees Bishop Joseph Kizito of Aliwal Diocese. Annual Immigration Conference #MigrationInAfrica – at South Africa
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"Migrants bring along with them the passion to succeed, industriousness, cultural diversity, and sense of openness to the world as opposed to a narrow inward-looking nationalism and isolationism" Archbishop Buti Tlhagale OMI #Migration in Africa annual conference 14-15 April 2023 – at South Africa
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The operationalization of the Sharm El Sheikh Joint Work on Agriculture should be informed by the experiences of small-holder farmers and local actors. In this video, the Diocesan Caritas of Kabwe explains the benefits of organic farming following support from @sciaf
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Pastoral care agents from the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) have called on the Catholic Church in the Southern region countries to introduce migration catechesis to educate children...
sacbc.org.za/pastoral-care-a… – at Johannesburg, South Africa
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Bishop Sipuka highlights Pope Francis’s “solidarity with the poor, preeminently expressed in his focused attention on migrants and refugees", and "his solidarity with the poor also manifests in two of his encyclicals, Laudato Si and Fratelli tutti."
sacbc.org.za/bishop-sipuka-o… – at Johannesburg, South Africa