From the north to the south of the country, the small team at Aid to the Church in Need is working hard to ensure that Christians have a home in the Land of the Cedars. Pastoral care and education are the charity’s two main priorities.
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As the Church enters the sacred Season of Advent, Zimbabwe’s Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ZCBC) has released a Pastoral Statement titled “Advent Pastoral Message – Remember the Poor,” in which it invites Zimbabweans to use the period as a time of national renewal, both social and spiritual.
The highlights of Pope Leo XIV’s second day in Türkiye include a meeting with bishops, clergy, consecrated persons and pastoral workers in Istanbul, a visit to a home for elderly people and the commemoration of the Council of Nicaea.
At the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Istanbul, Pope Leo XIV greets the community of Catholic faithful and blesses the first stone for a Catholic parish in the US city of Dallas, Texas, brought by the pastor on a pilgrimage to Türkiye.
The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC) has concluded its 2025 annual plenary assembly held in the Diocese of Damongo, during which key pastoral priorities and national concerns for the coming years were outlined. The assembly took place from 7 to 14 November under the theme “A Synodal Church at the Service of Justice and Peace in Ghana.”
With a new chirograph, Pope Leo decrees that the Apostleship of the Sea will be responsible for promoting the pastoral care of the “people of the sea”.
In continued response to the late Pope Francis’s call for a Church that “journeys together,” the Uganda Martyrs’ National Major Seminary, Alokolum, in partnership with the African Synodality Initiative (ASI), recently hosted a two-day formation workshop on Synodality and Synodal Pastoral Leadership.
On a five-day pastoral visit to Bangladesh, Cardinal Michael Czerny visits Cox’s Bazar, which houses more than one million people, mostly Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.
The 81st General Assembly of the Italian Bishops’ Conference will take place in the city of St Francis from 17 to 20 November, focusing on pastoral priorities, safeguarding, and Catholic education.
A three-day international Catholic conference is underway in Rome on 5-7 November with the goal of strengthening the Church’s pastoral engagement with mental wellbeing, as experts from around the world gather to share experiences, reflect, and pray together.
