Latest African christianity Podcast Episodes
Listening to the Cries of God's Faithful People: Fr Stan Responds to Chimamanda's Tears
African Catholic Voices - March 03, 2022 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn recent days, social media has been awash with an incident involving a priest verbally abusing the highly acclaimed author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at a memorial mass for her departed mother. Her case is not isolated and so we ask: How can pastors and pastoral agents in Africa bring comfort to...
Listening to the Cry of the Faithful: Fr Stan Responds to Chimamanda's Tears
African Catholic Voices - March 03, 2022 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn recent days, social media has been awash with an incident involving a priest verbally abusing the highly acclaimed author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at a memorial mass for her departed mother. Her case is not isolated and so we ask: How can pastors and pastoral agents in Africa bring comfort to...
African Agenda for the Synod: Let's Put an End to Wars and Violence in Africa-Women's Bodies are being Used as Weapons of War
African Catholic Voices - February 22, 2022 06:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLeocardie Lushombo, a Congolese nun, theological ethicist, peace advocate, grassroots social worker, and womanist decry the violence and wars in Africa. She praises the courageous witness of some Church leaders in the Congo especially Archbishop Munzihirwa who was reportedly killed by the force...
African Agenda for the Synod: A listening church, a prophetic church, and an inclusive church of peace, love, and fraternal solidarity in Africa
African Catholic Voices - February 17, 2022 15:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMeet the first African Superior General of the Comboni Missionaries, Fr Tesfaye Tadesse Gebresilasie. In this interview, he shares the story of his vocation and faith journey and the mission of the Comboni missionaries in Africa and in the World Church. He is joined in this conversation by Fr Ru...
African Agenda for the Synod: A listening church, a prophetic church, and an inclusive church of peace, love, and fraternal solidarity in Africa
African Catholic Voices - February 17, 2022 15:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMeet the first African Superior General of the Comboni Missionaries, Fr Tesfaye Tadesse Gebresilasie. In this interview, he shares the story of his vocation and faith journey and the mission of the Comboni missionaries in Africa and in the World Church. He is joined in this conversation by Fr Ru...
A Zimbabwean Catholic Woman's Cry to Pope Francis and the Church for Solidarity with Women and young people in Zimbabwe
African Catholic Voices - February 10, 2022 16:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAmainini Regina Matambanadzo, a Zimbabwean Catholic woman, nurse, and mother calls on Pope Francis and the Church in Africa and in the world to make common cause with the women and young people of Zimbabwe at this critical time in the nation's history. Zimbabwe is currently emerging from many y...
A Zimbabwean Catholic Woman's Cry to Pope Francis and the Church for Solidarity with Women and young people in Zimbabwe
African Catholic Voices - February 10, 2022 16:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAmainini Regina Matambanadzo, a Zimbabwean Catholic woman, nurse, and mother calls on Pope Francis and the Church in Africa and in the world to make common cause with the women and young people of Zimbabwe at this critical time in the nation's history. Zimbabwe is currently emerging from many y...
African Women Agenda for the Synod: Sr Dr Justin Nabushawo: Women are standing outside the door in the Church Today
African Catholic Voices - February 02, 2022 15:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSr Dr. Justin Nabushawo, a Ugandan nun and communication expert, and former editor of the African Ecclesial Review, invites the Church in Africa and in the world to listen to the cries of women today. Women are seeking respect, recognition, and greater inclusion in the Church. Women's talents ...
Episode 19: Sr Prof Caroline Mbonu-An African Catholic Church without Women in the Mainstream of Church Life has no Future
African Catholic Voices - January 25, 2022 19:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSr Mbonu, Professor of New Testament Studies and Gender Studies, identifies the marginalization of women in the African Church as the number one issue for the Catholic Church in Africa in this ongoing synodal process. She reminds everyone that a bird cannot fly with one wing. Thus, if the Churc...
Episode 18-Did Tutu's Ubuntu Message of Common Humanity Succeed in South Africa?
African Catholic Voices - January 18, 2022 19:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsProf Michael Onyebuchi Eze, an African political theorist of the Ubuntu philosophy and ethics of inter-subjectivity and global solidarity, demonstrates how the Ubuntu philosophy should be promoted today as a way of continuing the legacy of reconciliation, inclusiveness, and respect for the commo...
Episode-2022-2: An American Jesuit Professor's Trip to the Middle of Nowhere in Africa
African Catholic Voices - January 10, 2022 06:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFr 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 ref...
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
African Catholic Voices - January 06, 2022 18:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsOften 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 ...
Episode 15-God's Dream for Africa in 2021
African Catholic Voices - December 29, 2021 06:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCo-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 challeng...
Episode 12-My Hopes and Dreams for Africa-Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle
African Catholic Voices - December 23, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings"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. ...
Episode 13-My Hopes and Dreams for Africa-Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle
African Catholic Voices - December 23, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings"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. ...
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
African Catholic Voices - December 15, 2021 15:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsGlobal 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...
Episode 11: Tribute to Prof Jacquineau Azetsóp, S.J. who left us too soon
African Catholic Voices - December 10, 2021 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFr 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 resear...
Episode 10: Sr. Rosemary Nyirumbe - How babysitting nurtured a vocation to Sewing Hope and Healing
African Catholic Voices - December 03, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMeet 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 pove...
Episode 9: Sr. Mary Justine Naluggya - What is Canon Law and what does it mean in the life of the Church?
African Catholic Voices - November 26, 2021 07:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSr. 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 m...
Episode 7: For I Know the Plans I have for You - Servant Leadership Personified
African Catholic Voices - November 19, 2021 15:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSr. 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...
Episode 8: Sr. Jane Wakahiu - For I Know the Plans I have for You: Servant Leadership Personified
African Catholic Voices - November 19, 2021 15:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSr. 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...
Episode 7: Fr. Peter Knox - An African Ecologist Responds to the Message of COP26
African Catholic Voices - November 17, 2021 23:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings"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 te...
Episode 7: An African Ecologist Responds to the Message of COP26
African Catholic Voices - November 17, 2021 23:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings"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 te...
Episode 6: Srs. Josephine Idowu & Philo Agba - Sisters with the Smell of the Sheep: Grassroots Evangelization in Africa
African Catholic Voices - November 12, 2021 06:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings"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 t...
Episode 6: Sisters with the Smell of the Sheep: Grassroots Evangelization in Africa
African Catholic Voices - November 12, 2021 06:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings"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 t...
Episode 5: A Formative Journey of Encounters: Inter-cultural, Inter-Faith and Inter-Disciplinary
African Catholic Voices - November 05, 2021 14:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDr. 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 Catho...
Episode 5: Dr. Nontando Hadebe - A Formative Journey of Encounters: Inter-cultural, Inter-Faith and Inter-Disciplinary
African Catholic Voices - November 05, 2021 14:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDr. 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 Catho...
Episode Four: Priest, Political Scientist, Womanist: Axiom or Paradox?
African Catholic Voices - October 29, 2021 19:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMeet 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 pol...
Episode 4: Fr. Toussaint Kafarhire - Priest, Political Scientist, Womanist: Axiom or Paradox?
African Catholic Voices - October 29, 2021 19:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMeet 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 pol...
Episode 3: Sr. Josée Ngalula - Breaking the Glass Ceiling: The First African Woman Religious to join the International Theological Commission.
African Catholic Voices - October 22, 2021 13:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSr. 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 scene...
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