African Catholic Voices
125 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3 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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Episode-2022-2: An American Jesuit Professor's Trip to the Middle of Nowhere in Africa
January 10, 2022 06:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBFr Bill O'Neill, S. J. shares the story of his journey from being a University professor in Santa Clara, California, to serving his brothers and sisters at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. He speaks of why we need the mysticism of open eyes to see our naked humanity in the conditions of the refugees. He makes a passionate appeal to all people of the need to accompany our brothers and sisters who suffer; and the joyful privilege of being led to Jesus through these brothers and sisters in thi...
Episode 17-Bishop Kukah of Nigeria Pays Tribute to Desmond Tutu and Calls on African Clerics to become 'Controversial' by Getting More Involved in Politics
January 06, 2022 18:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBOften considered as cut from the same cloth as the late icon, Desmond Tutu, Nigerian public intellectual, and political and social activist, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto, discusses the legacy of Tutu. He calls on the Church in Africa and African church leaders to get their hands dirty and their lives messy like Tutu by having their boots on the rough grounds of today's complex and painful socio-economic and political conditions of Africa. In order to bring our crucified people down...
Episode 15-God's Dream for Africa in 2021
December 29, 2021 06:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBCo-host, writer, and grassroots leader, Sr Mumbi Kigutha (Kenya), and humanitarian and Catholic educationist, Fr Alex Ojacor (Uganda) and Fr Stan Chu Ilo (Nigeria) reflect on God's dream for Africa in 2022. They give practical suggestions on how the local churches in Africa can meet the challenges and opportunities opening up to God's people in Africa in the New Year by being a synodal Church. They also highlight some of the weaknesses in church leadership and social engagement by churches a...
Episode 12-My Hopes and Dreams for Africa-Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle
December 23, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MB"I am incurably hopeful about the future of Africa despite all the difficulties we faced this year." With these words, one of the most influential Catholic bishops in Africa, Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle, reviews this passing year (2021) and the challenges and signs of hope in Africa today. He invites Africans and the world to celebrate this Christmas with joy, despite the challenges of the ongoing pandemic. His message of hope is compelling; his personal account of his long battle with ...
Episode 13-My Hopes and Dreams for Africa-Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle
December 23, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MB"I am incurably hopeful about the future of Africa despite all the difficulties we faced this year." With these words, one of the most influential Catholic bishops in Africa, Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle, reviews this passing year (2021) and the challenges and signs of hope in Africa today. He invites Africans and the world to celebrate this Christmas with joy, despite the challenges of the ongoing pandemic. His message of hope is compelling; his personal account of his long battle with ...
Episode 12-Is Africa to blame for the New Omicron Variant of Covid-19? Dr Susan Nedza and Fr Stan Chu Ilo discuss Global health inequity and racism in global health
December 15, 2021 15:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MBGlobal health advocate, physician and humanitarian, Dr. Susan Nedza and Fr Stan Chu Ilo discuss the way forward for Africa and the world in the fight against the new variants of Covid-19. Both decry the medical apartheid against the poor, and the racialized thinking that led to the recent flight bans imposed on some African countries by many Western countries. They make some recommendations on how the Church in Africa can accompany God's people in the continent in these trying times.
Episode 11: Tribute to Prof Jacquineau Azetsóp, S.J. who left us too soon
December 10, 2021 05:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBFr Jacquineau Azetsop, S.J., who died on October 13th this year in Rome spoke so eloquently to our world in many ways than one. A Jesuit from Cameroon, Fr. Azetsóp was until his death the dean of the Pontifical Gregorian University School of Social Sciences in Rome, where his teaching and research focused on issues of health policy, public health ethics, social dimensions of health, health systems, and the inclusion of the destitute poor. He held a master's of public health from John Hopkins...
Episode 10: Sr. Rosemary Nyirumbe - How babysitting nurtured a vocation to Sewing Hope and Healing
December 03, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBMeet Sr. Rosemary Nyirumbe who was called a hero by CNN and named by Times Magazine by one "100 Most Influential People in the World'. Hear about the joys and challenges of ministering in Northern Uganda, a place that has been ravaged by conflict and instability which has resulted in abject poverty and much suffering. Her desire to serve has led her on an adventure and for the past 18 years or so, she has been ministering to former child soldiers and their children, helping them move from v...
Episode 9: Sr. Mary Justine Naluggya - What is Canon Law and what does it mean in the life of the Church?
November 26, 2021 07:00 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MBSr. Mary Justine Naluggya, recently joined the rarified ranks of African women who possess a doctorate in Canon Law when she graduated this summer. Despite not knowing much about canon law, she responded to an invitation to pursue studies in theology that led her down this path as part of the mutual discernment of the common good that the vow of obedience demands. Her academic journey started at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa and led her to mastering the Italian language in orde...
Episode 7: For I Know the Plans I have for You - Servant Leadership Personified
November 19, 2021 15:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBSr. Jane Wakahiu LSOSF takes us on the journey of her life. Her deep faith and its call to service nurtured by her parents at a tender age, led to her fiat to a life as a Little Sister of St Francis. Since then, she has continued to serve in a number of different and increasingly demanding roles that she has executed with great finesse and grace. Her ministerial experiences have given her an advantageous insight into the lives of African Catholic Sisters, and she shares the wisdom and knowl...
Episode 8: Sr. Jane Wakahiu - For I Know the Plans I have for You: Servant Leadership Personified
November 19, 2021 15:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBSr. Jane Wakahiu LSOSF takes us on the journey of her life. Her deep faith and its call to service nurtured by her parents at a tender age, led to her fiat to a life as a Little Sister of St Francis. Since then, she has continued to serve in a number of different and increasingly demanding roles that she has executed with great finesse and grace. Her ministerial experiences have given her an advantageous insight into the lives of African Catholic Sisters, and she shares the wisdom and knowl...
Episode 7: Fr. Peter Knox - An African Ecologist Responds to the Message of COP26
November 17, 2021 23:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MB"Climate change is not only bad news for Africa, it is bad news for the world." With these words, Jesuit priest, scientist, ecologist, and environmental ethicist, Peter Knox, dissects for us what was achieved at the just concluded UN Climate Change Conference, COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. He tells the story of our wounded earth and invites us to listen to the cries of the earth and the lamentation of the poor. He makes a passionate appeal to every one that we should care for the poor and...
Episode 7: An African Ecologist Responds to the Message of COP26
November 17, 2021 23:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MB"Climate change is not only bad news for Africa, it is bad news for the world." With these words, Jesuit priest, scientist, ecologist, and environmental ethicist, Peter Knox, dissects for us what was achieved at the just concluded UN Climate Change Conference, COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. He tells the story of our wounded earth and invites us to listen to the cries of the earth and the lamentation of the poor. He makes a passionate appeal to every one that we should care for the poor and...
Episode 6: Srs. Josephine Idowu & Philo Agba - Sisters with the Smell of the Sheep: Grassroots Evangelization in Africa
November 12, 2021 06:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MB"We cannot lose the light of hope"..."We are called to bring the light of Christ in Africa", with these words, Pauline sisters, Josephine Idowu, and Philo Agba share with us their very challenging but life-transforming grassroots evangelization ministry of bringing hope to Africa today amidst the challenges of the pandemic, violence, and failing governments. They share with us why it is important to deepen the Christian formation of young Africans and the urgent need for conversion through ...
Episode 6: Sisters with the Smell of the Sheep: Grassroots Evangelization in Africa
November 12, 2021 06:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MB"We cannot lose the light of hope"..."We are called to bring the light of Christ in Africa", with these words, Pauline sisters, Josephine Idowu, and Philo Agba share with us their very challenging but life-transforming grassroots evangelization ministry of bringing hope to Africa today amidst the challenges of the pandemic, violence, and failing governments. They share with us why it is important to deepen the Christian formation of young Africans and the urgent need for conversion through ...
Episode 5: A Formative Journey of Encounters: Inter-cultural, Inter-Faith and Inter-Disciplinary
November 05, 2021 14:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBDr. Nontando Hadebe a child of parents from different ethnicities and nationalities, born a Catholic, but who in her mid-twenties took a ecumenical sojourn, visiting other churches that enriched her life greatly. Eventually, Ignatian Spirituality, a justice focused parish and experiencing Catholic Social Teaching in praxis brought her back to the Catholic Church. She began her working life in the legal profession, where her encounters with those at the margins in the form of survivors and ...
Episode 5: Dr. Nontando Hadebe - A Formative Journey of Encounters: Inter-cultural, Inter-Faith and Inter-Disciplinary
November 05, 2021 14:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBDr. Nontando Hadebe a child of parents from different ethnicities and nationalities, born a Catholic, but who in her mid-twenties took a ecumenical sojourn, visiting other churches that enriched her life greatly. Eventually, Ignatian Spirituality, a justice focused parish and experiencing Catholic Social Teaching in praxis brought her back to the Catholic Church. She began her working life in the legal profession, where her encounters with those at the margins in the form of survivors and ...
Episode Four: Priest, Political Scientist, Womanist: Axiom or Paradox?
October 29, 2021 19:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBMeet Fr. Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula S.J, a Jesuit priest from the DRC who also happens to be a political scientist and by belief and practice also a womanist, desiring and championing for women's dignity, participation and equity in society and church. We hear about his motivation to study political science and how that compliments theology and our faith life rather than contradicts it. Explaining also what the true definition of politics is, a broader reality than the narrow definitions ...
Episode 4: Fr. Toussaint Kafarhire - Priest, Political Scientist, Womanist: Axiom or Paradox?
October 29, 2021 19:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBMeet Fr. Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula S.J, a Jesuit priest from the DRC who also happens to be a political scientist and by belief and practice also a womanist, desiring and championing for women's dignity, participation and equity in society and church. We hear about his motivation to study political science and how that compliments theology and our faith life rather than contradicts it. Explaining also what the true definition of politics is, a broader reality than the narrow definitions ...
Episode 3: Sr. Josée Ngalula - Breaking the Glass Ceiling: The First African Woman Religious to join the International Theological Commission.
October 22, 2021 13:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBSr. Josée Ngalula, an accomplished theologian and a Sister of St. Andre from the Democratic Republic of Congo shares her hopes and dreams for the African Church and especially African Catholic women. We also get to learn of some of the details about the process that took place behind the scenes, leading to her appointment to the International Theological Commission, becoming the first African woman to achieve this feat. More so, what this commission does for the global Church and what her ...
Episode Three: Breaking the Glass Ceiling: The First African Woman Religious to join the International Theological Commission.
October 22, 2021 13:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBSr. Josée Ngalula, an accomplished theologian and a Sister of St. Andre from the Democratic Republic of Congo shares her hopes and dreams for the African Church and especially African Catholic women. We also get to learn of some of the details about the process that took place behind the scenes, leading to her appointment to the International Theological Commission, becoming the first African woman to achieve this feat. More so, what this commission does for the global Church and what her ...
Episode Two: The Witness of the Daughters of St Paul in Africa: Let's Listen to the Voices of African Women Religious!!!
October 15, 2021 16:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBSr Kemi Akinleye and Sr Beatrice Efembele who are heading the publication department of the Paulines Sisters, West Africa tell the stories of their lives, ministry, grassroots evangelization, and faith animation through the Paulines Publications, Africa. They narrate the challenging experience of Christian persecution in Nigeria, the rise in violence in the country, the hostile environment in which they work, and their courageous effort to be present in the chaos of the lives of the people....
Episode 2: Srs. Kemi Akinleye & Sr Beatrice Efembele - The Witness of the Daughters of St Paul in Africa: Let's Listen to the Voices of African Women Religious!!!
October 15, 2021 16:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBSr Kemi Akinleye and Sr Beatrice Efembele who are heading the publication department of the Paulines Sisters, West Africa tell the stories of their lives, ministry, grassroots evangelization, and faith animation through the Paulines Publications, Africa. They narrate the challenging experience of Christian persecution in Nigeria, the rise in violence in the country, the hostile environment in which they work, and their courageous effort to be present in the chaos of the lives of the people....
Episode 1: Frs. Patrick Alumuku & Stan Chu Ilo- A Call for African Catholic Voices at the Catholic Synod on Synodality
October 05, 2021 18:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBOn October 10, 2021, Pope Francis will open a two-year synodal process in the worldwide Catholic Church. In creating the opportunity for listening and dialogue on the local level through this Synod, Pope Francis is calling the Church to rediscover her deeply synodal nature. This is a time to pray, listen, analyze, dialogue, and discern how to build a vital church in Africa and in the world. It is also a time to seek a common path in shaping the future of the Catholic Church to meet the need...
Episode One: A Call for African Catholic Voices at the Catholic Synod on Synodality
October 05, 2021 18:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBOn October 10, 2021, Pope Francis will open a two-year synodal process in the worldwide Catholic Church. In creating the opportunity for listening and dialogue on the local level through this Synod, Pope Francis is calling the Church to rediscover her deeply synodal nature. This is a time to pray, listen, analyze, dialogue, and discern how to build a vital church in Africa and in the world. It is also a time to seek a common path in shaping the future of the Catholic Church to meet the need...