Members of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (ICLSAL) in Burkina Faso have been urged to participate in the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year celebrations as agents of ...

African theologians gathered in Ghana to shape a bold 25-year vision for the church, tackling cultural identity, youth ...

The Catholic Diocese of Dori  in Burkina Faso has continued to pray for the safety of Fr. Joël Yougbare who has been ...

Sister Suellen Tennyson, a Marianite of Holy Cross who survived abduction in West Africa, died Wednesday in Covington.

Sister Suellen Tennyson, the Roman Catholic nun and Kenner native who was kidnapped and held captive for nearly five months ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Burkina Faso junta leader Ibrahim Traore participates in a ceremony in Ouagadougou, Oct. 15, 2022. (AP Photo ...

On April 1, Burkina Faso’s security minister published a list of individuals who are “actively wanted for criminal association in relation to a terrorist enterprise,” and called on the ...

In Senegal, faced with the phenomenon of migration, the Catholic Church has established ... deliberately target places of worship in Burkina Faso to "attack the religious harmony of this country ...

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This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy due to their rejection of the ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion — the direct and purposeful taking of the life of the unborn child. In principle, Catholic Christians believe that all life is ...

This year marks a special anniversary in my life: my decision to join the Catholic Church, and one I have never regretted. I am one of the few converts I know who has no other Catholics in the family.