African Catholic Voices
124 episodes - English - Latest episode: 26 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsCelebrating the stories of faith in action and the voices of Christians from the African heartland, the emerging center of gravity of World Christianity.
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African Families and the Burden of Sickle Cell Disease
April 01, 2024 19:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBDr Jude Dumfeh, an award winning internal medicine and pediatric physician and his wife, Evelyn Dumfeh share with us the challenges they faced when their daughter was diagnosed with sickle cell disease. Their family experience is a testimony of love that triumphs all things; sacrifice in the midst of pain; and hope and faith in God's goodness and healing that is brought about through prayers and the intervention of modern medicine. They have a word of advice to all families facing the challe...
In death, life is transformed: Reflection for the Easter Sunday
March 29, 2024 16:00 - 5 minutes - 3.56 MBIn this Easter homily, Bishop Gerard Musa of Katsina Diocese delivers a touching message about the incredible transformative power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He eloquently explains that for believers, death is not the ultimate end but instead a transformation to a new life. The bishop emphasizes that faith in Jesus means that death is not a permanent separation from loved ones, but rather a transition to the eternal presence of God. Bishop Musa's message serves as a reminder of th...
Why is there no African Cardinal heading a Roman Dicastery?
March 23, 2024 03:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBAs Pope Francis celebrates his eleventh year on the Chair of Peter, some Catholics might disagree on his legacy; but all agree that his papacy has been consequential. In this episode, we look at some of the central teachings of Pope Francis and especially the current Synod on Synodality, and his call for missionary conversion and for a Church with an open doors that goes out to those at the existential peripheries of life. We note that since the retirement of Cardinal Sarah in 2021, and the...
The Poor in our Midst: Doing Charity and Justice as Christians in Africa
March 11, 2024 05:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBChristians are called to give alms to the poor and reach out to all those who need our help. In this episode, we talk about doing charity and working for justice and the best way to do almsgiving so as to find favor with God. We also critically analyze the challenging social conditions in many African countries and discuss what is causing so much poverty, suffering, and misery in the continent and how to change this unacceptable social conditions through charity and social justice.
Prayer in African Christian Spirituality: Why is God not answering some Prayers?
March 04, 2024 06:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBIn this episode, we talk on the importance of prayer in the lives of African Christians. During this Lent, we are invited to deepen our prayer life. The episode delves into different kinds of prayers and raises the questions: How can we pray better? Does God answer all our prayers? Must we pray always until something happens? Is there something like an unanswered prayer?
Is God still with us in the World? Meditation on Jesus the Water of Life (3rd Sunday of Lent)
February 28, 2024 03:00 - 7 minutes - 5.27 MBThe Gospel presents to us the story of a woman who was searching for God. She was a woman who had no name. In the NT, those who have no name are usually people who have no status in society. She was also a Samaritan. The Samaritans were regarded as inferior spiritually by the Israelites because they were unfaithful to God’s covenant and worshipped idols. They were outcasts. Jesus however breaks the prejudices of his people: by talking to a Samaritan woman, asking her for water and even spend...
"We don't need any Sermon on Fasting in Africa this Lent....God's People in Africa have been fasting for far too long now!!!"
February 25, 2024 06:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBIn this episode Sr Jane and Fr Stan discuss the Lenten discipline of fasting, abstinence and penance. They invite the people of God to a deeper reflection on the reality of suffering and poverty in Africa. God's people are already living a long penance of fasting with the rising cost of living, inflation, and failing governments that have failed to take care of the poor and the masses of our people. How can preachers speak God's Word on how to live the Lenten discipline of fasting and abstin...
Do Catholic Sisters fall in love? Responding to God's Call as African Female Religious
February 19, 2024 06:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBIn this episode, Sr Jane Kimathi, shares her stories of the life of the African female religious. In this frank discussion, Sr Jane teaches us how to fall in love with God and how African religious women are living their religious life faithfully and fruitfully. It is a life that they live on earthen vessels amidst two fires that burn in the religious: the fire of love for God and spirituality, and the fire of one's sexuality and the desire for intimacy with another. In this synodal moment,...
The Spirituality of Lent: Journeying Together through the Desert into Freedom
February 14, 2024 13:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBIn this episode, Sr Jane and Fr Stan offer some spiritual insights on how we can journey together throughout these forty days with the Lord. The Lord invites you to walk through the desert with faith and trust in the Lord who leads us on the way. The Lord asks you today to leave your slavery to sin and fear behind; to leave your past behind; and to cast all your weaknesses behind you and to focus your gaze on the Lord who leads us to freedom. We pray that the spiritual insights contained in ...
Young Africans' Views on the African Digital Faith Influencers Formation Program
February 12, 2024 11:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBIn this recent episode of the African Catholic Voice, a group of amazing African Digital Faith Influencers had an interesting conversation with Sr Titilayo Aduloju. They discussed a six-month formation program that aims to help them stand up for their faith among their peers who live in the digital peripheries. The influencers also shared that this program is fully in line with Pope Francis's vision for young people to use the digital space to evangelize and become digital missionaries. Th...
Should Celibacy be optional for Catholic Priests: An African Synodal Conversation
February 06, 2024 17:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBArchbishop Scicluna of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith has called on the Church to consider ending celibacy as a way of preventing clerics from living " a dangerous double life." Chapter 11 of the Synodal synthesis report also invites us to pay attention to "different opinions that have been expressed about priestly celibacy." This episode begins this conversation in Africa. We look at the joys and sorrows of compulsory priestly celibacy in the Church with a special attention on the ...
Africa, Catholicism and Sex: Blessing or Taboo, Episode 1
January 25, 2024 13:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MBCo-hosts, Sr Jane Kamathi and Fr Stan Chu Ilo discuss sex, sexuality, and the taboos around them in Africa. They delve into the beauty of sex, sexuality, and the theology of the body. They answer the questions: Why are people uncomfortable to talk about sexual issues or to discuss about their sexuality in Africa? Why are people unwilling to open up about the traumas and abuses they have suffered in relationship? Why don't we pray often in our church to God for our sexuality and our relations...
Hekima University College @ 40, African Jesuits Celebrate a Significant Milestone and Look with Hope to the Future
December 18, 2023 14:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBFr Marcel Uwineza, Principal of Hekima University College, Nairobi speaks on the achievement of this premier Jesuit university, and the vision and hope for the future. Listen to the moving narrative of Fr Uwineza's spiritual and theological journey of surviving the genocide in Rwanda and witnessing his parents' violent deaths and his message of hope on how to make sense of God in a violent world of suffering and pain. This compelling conversation weaves personal narrative and theodicy with t...
Polygamy is good only for African Men, African Churches should abolish it
December 07, 2023 03:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBRose Egolet, Ugandan humanitarian, and grassroots women mobiliser based in Moshe, Tanzania, challenges the notion that polygamy is a good cultural practice in Africa that should be accepted today. He agrees with the view of one of our listeners, Amainini Regina Matambanazo, that no one should ever endorse polygamy in Africa because of issues arising from polygamous marriages-jealousy, hatred, and extramarital relationships, dishonesty and even witchcraft among the wives. For Rose, polygamy ...
Should polygamy be accepted by the Catholic Church in Africa?
November 28, 2023 14:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBProf Itumeleng Mothoagae, a South African biblical scholar and Head of the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of South Africa addresses the contested questions around polygamy in Africa. He introduces what he calls 'biculturality and bireligiosity' in understanding why the churches in Africa are struggling with finding the right pastoral response to the prevalence of polygamy in Africa. In South Africa, polygamy is constitutional and many Zionist churches in Souther...
Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Legislation: Is the U.S and the World Bank Justified in Withdrawing Aid to Uganda?
November 16, 2023 14:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBRose Egolet, an advocate for women justice and human rights and resource mobilization advisor for Kilimanjaro Women Information and Education Community Organization (KWIECO), Moshi-Tanzania (funded by Crossroads International), and Fr Ruffino Ezama, Provincial superior of the Comboni Missionaries of the North American Province, share their thoughts on the punitive measures of Western donor agencies and governments against their beloved country, Uganda, over the country's anti-homosexuality l...
Tribute to the Great Bishop Paride Taban of South Sudan
November 10, 2023 03:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBBishop Paride Taban who died at 87 on All Saints Day has left an inedible mark in South Sudan, Sudan, and the rest of Africa and the world as a peace-builder, a peace-maker, and a servant leader. In establishing the Peace Village, he has left a permanent example of how to be a pastor with the smell of a sheep and how to heal the wounds and brokenness of war through love, selfless sacrifice, and boundless energy for God's suffering people. His friend and colleague, John Ashworth, pays a speci...
Africa is witnessing the Fastest growth in Catholic Population Worldwide-Find out Why
November 02, 2023 12:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBCo-hosts Sr Chantal and Fr Stan discuss the latest statistics on the growth of the Catholic population in Africa. Why is Africa witnessing the fastest growth in Catholic population worldwide? How can African Catholics use this population growth to drive the mission of God in Africa? How can African Catholics use its great population to influence the worldwide church on some of the contested moral issues of today? They also propose how spirituality, morality, political culture and faith coul...
Can the Synod on Synodality change any Catholic Doctrine?
October 24, 2023 13:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBAs the current session of the synod on synodality draws to a close, Fr Stan and Sr Chantal in this episode answer the question on the deliberative and consultative functions of the Synod of Bishops. They invite Catholics to pray for the synod in a special way during this final week. There is the need for the faithful to lower their expectations about changes in the Church's teaching because no synod has the power to change the doctrines of the Catholic Church since these are revealed truths....
Silence as a Synodal Method: Why we need to listen to the voice of Silence
October 18, 2023 17:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBCo-hosts, Sr Chantal and Fr Stan discuss the importance of silence during this important moment of synod on synodality. They discuss the reasons why Pope Francis invited the delegates not to talk to the press about the ongoing discussions. They speak about some of the concerns of Africa and address the challenges facing educators in some parts of Africa, and the need for strengthening Catholic education in Africa and deepening the Catholic intellectual traditions in Africa.
How I prepared for the Synod on Synodality, Reflections of an African Delegate, Fr Vitalis Anaehobi
October 11, 2023 01:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBFr Vitalis Anaehobi, Secretary-General of the Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa, RECOWA, speaks on how he and other African delegates prepared to represent Africa in the ongoing synod on synodality. He shares with God's people his hopes and prayers for the synod and urges everyone to trust in the Spirit of God who leads the church into the future in the direction of the eschatological reign of God.
Voices of African Faith-based Women Leaders: What African Women Expect from the Synod on Synodality
September 27, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBTwo leading faith-based African women leaders outline what African women expect from the forthcoming synod on synodality. Ugandan, Sr Rosemary Nyirumbe often dubbed 'the African Mother Teresa' and African biblical scholar, Prof Caroline Mbonu, outline some of the key issues that African women should be bringing to the synodal halls including participation of women in mainstream leadership in the church, creating more opportunities for women in the church and society, women education, violen...
African Theology: Is Christianity a Force for Good in Africa?
September 20, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBProf Simon Mary Aihiokhai and Sr Nkechi Iwuoha discuss the current state of Christianity in Africa. They identify the many faces of the current momentum of Christian expansion and call for a new Christian imagination in Africa so that Africa can use the gift of the Christian faith to recreate the face of Africa. Both guests look with hope to the future of Christianity in Africa, but warn of the dangers that lie ahead if Christians in Africa and church leaders fail to embrace an African Chri...
Church and Politics in Africa # 1:Coups, Contested Elections, Illiberal democracies, social unrest, poverty in Africa... how can the Church help?
September 13, 2023 15:00 - 33 minutes - 23.4 MBJesuit priest, social anthropologist, and social justice advocate, Fr Ludovic Lado and emerging African political theologian, Fr William Orbih address the current political situation in Africa. They help us understand why there is so much unrest, some many military takeovers of governments, and shrinking political and economic freedom in many African countries. Orbih calls for 'a culture of protest' to resist the exploitation and manipulation of everyday people by politicians; while Lado cal...
THE FUTURE OF AFRICAN THEOLOGY: Continuing the Legacy of Laurenti Magesa
August 22, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBSpeaker: Dr. SimonMary Asese Aihiokhai Dr. SimonMary Asese Aihiokhai is a Nigerian American theologian. He is an associate professor of systematic theology at the University of Portland. He is a Fellow at the Wester Institute. Dr. Aihiokhai is an Elite Member of the Conversational School of Philosophy (CSP), a forum for African philosophers who specialize in African philosophy. He is a member of the Pan-African Catholic Theology and Pastoral Network (PACTPAN). Dr. Aihiokhai has published ove...
African Catholic Voices : Sr Titilayo in Conversation with the Angolan BBI Cohort Members – Part One
July 04, 2023 02:00 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MBWelcome to the first episode of an enthralling conversation between Sr. Titilayo Aduloju of African Catholic Youth Voices and the Angolan youth of the Building Bridges Initiative. In this insightful discussion, Sr. Titilayo explores the intricate relationship between the state and the church in this country once ravaged by war. Together, they delve into Angola's past, present, and future and discuss the crucial role of faith communities in building a better society. In this first part of th...
African Catholic Voices : P. Ebubeckukwu en Conversation Avec les Membres du BBI CONGO Brazzaville
June 15, 2023 02:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBDans cette vidéo, nous avons abordé principalement la conception et la contribution de la jeunesse congolaise à l'avenir de leur pays, la gestion de la richesse du pays et l'emploi. Nous avons également abordé l'aspect du phénomène que l'on appelle bébé noir (Black baby), c'est-à-dire des enfants de la rue et la délinquance juvénile en général. En outre, en louant les efforts de la jeunesse congolaise qui n'a pas l'habitude de migrer vers le nord comme leurs collègues des pays sub-sahariens...
African Catholic Voices : Sister Titilayo With Zimbabwean BBI Cohort Part Two
June 07, 2023 19:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBWe are pleased to present the second part of our conversation with the Zimbabwean faith influencers of the Building Bridges Initiative. In this follow-up episode, we delve further into the struggles faced by Zimbabweans amidst ongoing political and social crises that challenge their sense of self. The discussion centers on what it means to be a citizen in Zimbabwe and how young people can maintain their authentic Zimbabwean and Christian identities. Furthermore, the participants expres...
African Catholic Voices : Sister Titilayo With Zimbabwean BBI Cohort Part One
May 26, 2023 04:00 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBWe are delighted to share the first episode of a conversation between Sr. Titilayo Aduloju and some young Zimbabwean faith influencers of the Building Bridges Initiative. In this first part, the young students discuss their perspectives on what identity means to them as youth, Christians, and Zimbabweans. In addition, they are concerned about how it is possible to engage in everyday social and political changes in today's global society while remaining faithful to one's identity. They also ...
Sudan in Crisis: What should the Church do?
May 17, 2023 23:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBSr Teresia Wamuyu Wachira, Co-President of Pax Christi International and John Ashworth, Fellow of the Rift Valley Institute, and Catholic missionary address the current crisis and conflict in Sudan. They help us to understand the complex nature of this conflict, the suffering of the people especially the poor, women, and children, and how greed, corruption, ethnic and religious factors as well as geo-politics and international actors continue to fuel the conflict in Sudan, South Sudan and t...
Pan-African Catholic Voices : Fr EbubeCkukwu en Conversation Avec les Membres du BBI DR CONGO
May 08, 2023 05:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBDans ce podcast, le Père EbubeChukwu et la Sœur Titilayo ont entretenu une conversation avec trois jeunes étudiant·e·s de la République Démocratique du Congo. Ces jeunes membres du BBI ont exprimé leur joie après avoir participé activement à la visite du pape au Congo cette année (janvier/février). Ils ont également remercié le pape pour avoir pris le temps de les rencontrer. Les jeunes racontent ce qu'ils ont retenu de leur rencontre avec le Saint Père. Ils nous ont rapporté que le pape le...
African Catholic Voices : Sr Titilayo in Conversation With Fr EbubeChukwu, OMI
May 01, 2023 04:00 - 31 minutes - 21.3 MBIn this engaging conversation, Sr Titilayo chats with Father Basil Obieje on his activities and involvement with the Congolese youth while on mission to the country. He shares with us that his mission with the young people was highly engaging, engaging, fruitful, and fulfilling. He believes that young people need the accompaniment of priests, religious, and elders to tread the part of righteousness and morality. He emphasizes the necessity of assisting them, and argues that we must not negl...
The Synod on Synodality is a Moment of Prayerful Discernment: African Catholic Voices with Fr Ruffino Ezama
April 17, 2023 06:00 - 32 minutes - 22.7 MBWelcome to the African Catholic Voices. In this episode, co-host, Father Ruffino Ezama speaks with Father Anthony Kimbowa Kibira. Anthony is the provincial superior of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus (MCCJ), Uganda. In this conversation, Fr Anthony walks us through his journey of synodality as a combonian missionary. The listener will observe that the conversation is not about how he implements synodality in his ministry, but how his openness to the spirit of synodality guid...
We are the Face of the Church Today: African Catholic Youth Voices with Sister Titilayo
April 14, 2023 01:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBHello, we are pleased to introduce you to the second episode of an engaging and educative conversation between Sr Titilayo Aduloju and some young Ugandan faith influencers of the Building Bridges Initiative. In the first episode, they told us about different activities they have been doing since they started, such as planting trees and cleaning their church compounds. In this second episode, they reclaim the faith of the Ugandan Martyrs again. They encourage other youths worldwide to embody...
"Women are the Pillars of the Church in Africa", says Prof Philomena Mwaura
April 03, 2023 05:00 - 29 minutes - 20.7 MBProf Philomena Mwaura is a leading Catholic theologian in Africa today and a member of the commission that drafted the continental synthesis in the ongoing synodal process. In this conversation, she shares her dream for a synodal church in Africa, the steps for including women in the mainstream of leadership in the church, and the challenges that lay people, especially women face in the African Catholic Church.
" My Vocation is an invitation to fight for justice for widows, and the poor, and to show the way to African young people" says Sr Leonida Katunge
March 27, 2023 05:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MBSr Leonida Katunge is the Director of Programs for the Pan-African Catholic Theology and Pastoral Network, and coordinator of the Building Bridges Initiatives of Pope Francis for young Catholics in Africa. She is also an advocate of the High Court of Kenya, a sacramental theologian and teacher, and a humanitarian. In this conversation, she shares with us how she is able to combine these different hats; her vision for young Catholics in Africa; her work with different dicasteries at the Vatic...
"Our vocation is to serve the least of the brethren", Sr Nkechi Iwuoha on the Mission of the African Catholic Sister Today
March 20, 2023 05:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBSr Nkechi Iwuoha PHJC, is a Provincial Counselor of the American Province of the Poor Handmaid of Jesus Christ and a missionary who has worked in three continents. In this conversation, she reflects on her vocation and ministry to the least of the brethren, and her current leadership roles in the Catholic Church in the U.S.A. She invites us all to embrace the call to serve the poor and to listen to the cries of those who are suffering in the world today. Her important leadership role in the ...
Homily for the 4th Sunday of Lent: Come, Walk in the Light of Christ
March 17, 2023 16:00 - 10 minutes - 7.58 MBThe blind man in the Gospel represents those who are seeking goodness and search for the light in all things and eventually find the light in Christ. He was born blind and was suffering until Jesus found him and restored his sight. Even though this man endured this condition from his birth to adulthood, it is obvious in the narrative that he was a very positive man with an open mind and was seeking goodness in his own painful circumstances. In the dialogue with the detractors of Jesus afte...
"We Must Take Back our Country" Fr Cornelius Afebu Omonokhua Speaks about the Election Fever in Nigeria
March 16, 2023 16:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBFr Omonokhua is a Nigeria cleric with a mission. He wants to bring Nigerians together across tribes, religions, and regions to the table of dialogue. As the Secretary-General of the Nigerian Inter-Religious Council (NIREC), he works everyday to create the space for dialogue among a cross section of Nigerians on how to promote the common good and bring about good governance, peace and social transformation in Nigeria. In this dialogue, he speaks on the current election cycle in Nigeria; the c...
Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Lent: Jesus, the Water of Life who Satisfies our Thirst for God
March 11, 2023 03:00 - 10 minutes - 7.31 MBIn this reflection on the encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman in John's Gospel (4), we reflect on what happens when we meet Jesus. The Lenten season offers us the opportunity of encountering this Jesus who is also searching for us. We all have a hunger for God which can only be satisfied through constant company with Jesus. In the first reading, God satisfies the thirst of the people of Israel in the desert. This is an invitation to us also to call upon the Lord especially in ou...
Tribalism, Clannishness, Ethnic Animosity and the Crisis of Episcopal and Leadership Succession in Africa
February 17, 2023 13:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBIn his recent visit to South Sudan, Pope Francis exhorted the clergy, religious and church leaders to eschew tribalism and ethnic animosity in the Church in Africa. This episode is a commentary on the threats and pains of tribalism and ethnocentric considerations in African Catholicism. This has been so painfully evident in the rejection of bishops in Juba, South Sudan; Ahiara Diocese, Nigeria; Makeni, Sierra Leone and the killings of bishops in Kenya and Cameroun over in-fighting in church...
Youths are Nation Builders, They Stand Firm Despite … Conversation with Kenyan BBI Cohort II
February 17, 2023 04:00 - 14 minutes - 9.81 MBIn this second and last episode of the African Catholic Voice's conversation with the Kenyan Building Bridges Initiative cohort, Sr Titilayo Aduloju continues to discuss with these social actors on their different engagements in their society. She dives deep into the conversation that started in part one of this episode. Today, they are giving us practical examples of their present and future realizations. If they are faith influencers, how do they stand up against the vices of corruption,...
Young people have a crucial role to play in national building. – Conversation with Kenyan BBI Cohort - Part One
February 13, 2023 03:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBIn this first part of a very engaging and interesting video, Sr Titilayo Aduloju chats with some Faith Influencers from Kenyan Cohorts of Building Bridges Initiative. They discuss their activities since their encounter with Pope Francis and the way forward. These active young people share their individual, group and national experiences. Some of them have been planting trees and cleaning their environment, some others are into research and writing while some others have been engaged in diff...
Was the Visit of Pope Francis to Africa a Success? Nigerian Bishops meet amidst confusion over currency change, fuel scarcity, more killings, and pre-elections tension and anxiety
February 10, 2023 14:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBFr Stan Chu Ilo reflects on the Pope's visit to the DRC and South Sudan and points the way to the future. Based on the opinions of many analysts, there is a serious concern that the Pope's visit will amount to nothing, if the local politicians in these two countries are not committed to transparency and inclusive governments; national reconciliation and peace; the rule of law, and fighting corruption and abuse of power and the use of violence against their own people. The second part of...
Embrace Nonviolence for the Sake of your People: Mother Jurugo and Father Ezama make a Passionate appeal to Congolese and South Sudanese Leaders
February 07, 2023 19:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBWe present to you our guest host, Fr Ruffino Ezama of the Comboni Missionaries. Currently, Ruffino is the Provincial Superior of the North American Province. His conversation partner in this episode is Mother Alice Drajea Jurugo, the Superior General of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Sisters, based in Juba, South Sudan. The Sacred Heart Sisters were founded by the Comboni Missionaries in Sudan in the 1950s. In this episode, Fr Ezama and Mother Jurugo discuss the recent apostolic visit of Pope Fr...
Tribute to the Nigerian Priest, Fr Isaac Achi, who was burned to death by Islamists
January 31, 2023 12:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBThis podcast is a special tribute to Fr Isaac Achi who was burned to death by radical Islamic fundamentalists in Nigeria's Niger State on January 15, 2023. Dominican priest and professor of political science, Fr Iheanyi Enwerem, pays tribute to Fr Achi and remembers so many Catholic priests, Christian religious leaders, Nigerian Christians and men and women of goodwill who are being murdered everyday in Nigeria. He decries the persecution of Christians in Nigeria, and the failure of the gove...
Is God still working miracles today as many African Christians Claim? Yes, and we tell you why, and how in this episode
January 18, 2023 17:00 - 36 minutes - 25.5 MBTheologian, humanitarian and charismatic priest, Fr Alex Ojacor, discuss with Fr Stan Chu Ilo on why he believes in miracles. Together they lay out the conditions for miracles in the biblical tradition and in Catholic beliefs and practices. They share their spiritual insights on why they are convinced that the search for, and claims about miracles in African churches are signs of faith and evidence of God's mighty deeds of power in the churches in Africa. The false claims about miracles, in ...
African Theologians predict that 2023 will be a great year of hope for Africa
January 10, 2023 17:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBUgandan theologian and humanitarian, Fr Alex Ojacor, discusses with Fr Stan Chu Ilo on why he thinks 2023 will be a great year for Africa and her peoples. They discuss the role of faith, the church, and politics in turning Africa's possibilities and hopes into reality for the flourishing of Africa and spreading prosperity for Africans in 2023.
Leading Catholic Scholars Discuss the Theological and Pastoral Legacy of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI
January 03, 2023 15:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBAs Catholics and the rest of the world mourn the passing of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, we have assembled some of the most important scholars of Catholic intellectual tradition and experts on the theology of Pope Benedict XVI to discuss his legacy both as a theologian and pastor. Listen to the engaging and insightful theological analysis and tributes of Notre Dame University scholars, Prof Cyril O’Regan, Prof John Cavadini, and Prof Paulinus Odozor in conversation with Prof Stan Chu Ilo of D...
Was 2022 a Good Year for God's People in Africa?
December 30, 2022 21:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBWas 2022 a good year for Africa? Was 2022 a good year for the Catholic Church in Africa and African Christianity in general? In this special episode of African Catholic Voices, Fr Stan Chu Ilo undertakes a theological and political analysis of some of the major events in Africa in 2022. He examines the response of the Catholic Church in Africa and African Christians to current affairs in Africa this year. The episode concludes with an invitation to all God's people in Africa to end this yea...