A social football team comprising members of the Catholic Men Organisation (CMO) from Lilongwe Archdiocese faced a fire baptism on Easter Monday (April 2, 2018) after being beaten 8-1 by a side composed of priests from the Archdiocese, featuring Monsignor Francis Sonkhani in midfield during an Easter celebration social football match played at the Bingu National Stadium […]
Bishop Martin Mtumbuka of the Catholic Diocese of Karonga has people having permanent jobs in the diocese has led to complacency, and has thus scrapped off the policy opting for contracts. He said last week at St Joseph the Worker Cathedral, his headquarters, that the development will in ensuring that there is prudence in the […]
Archbishop Tarcisius Ziyaye of the Catholic Lilongwe Archdiocese, has offered a message of love and hope on Easter Sunday, urging the faithful to pray and love one another, saying if everyone in this country stood steadfast by the principle of the common good Malawi would have been a far much better place. His Grace Ziyaye said during […]
For Tamandani Mervis Kamuyanja of Malawi, meeting Pope Francis in Rome and being listened to by him was extremely important. Throughout the week-long Pre-Synodal meeting, with animators and among colleagues, she felt she could express herself without fear of being judged. “In his opening remarks, the Pope was like, you know what, I want you […]
Head of the influential Catholic Church in Malawi, Archbishop Thomas Msusa, has called on Malawians to love one another and desist from gender-based violence. His Grace Msusa, who is also Archbishop of Blantyre, was speaking when he led Limbe Cathedral faithful from Chichiri Primary School on Good Friday, to hold the Way of the Cross. Saint Matthews Anglicans were […]
Malawian Vice President Saulos Chilima on Friday joined his fellow christians in participating in Way of the Cross, marking the suffering that Jesus Christ went on the day of his crucifixion and accompanying prayers. Good Friday is the day Christians say Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross and died for the sins of the world. Chilima, […]
A Lilongwe -based governance commentator Makhumbo Munthali has said apportioned blame on both the Executive and the opposition on the country’s state of governance. Munthali was commenting on the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) position on the state of governance, as the Catholic bishops have expressed concern about the socio-economic and political climate in the country, citing increasing […]
Archbishop Thomas Msusa, the chairperson of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM), a grouping of Catholic bishops in the country, on Saturday turned down the First Lady Gertrude Mutharika’s offer through her Beautify Malawi (Beam) Trust to give 40 bags of cement towards the rehabilitation of Providence Girls Secondary School hostel in Mulanje. His Grace, Msusa, explained that […]
The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP), an arm of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM), has added its voice to calls demanding the immediate resignation of Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe and Local Government Minister Kondwani Nankhumwa for their role to arrange K4 billion ‘budget by-pass’ fund to legislators. The CCJP has since slamed […]
The Mzuzu Diocese of the Catholic Church has a launched a construction project pof a new Parish at Hewe oin Rumphi which has been named St Joseph Mukasa, partly in honour of the diocese’s deceased Bishop Joseph Mukasa Zuza. Zuza, who was also head of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM)—the supreme body of the […]
The need to intensify sensitization on Biblical messages amongst Christian and non-Christian faithful regarding the role Tithe plays in the Catholic Church, cannot be overemphasized, the country’s second citizen has said. State vice-president Dr. Saulos Klaus Chilima stressed the point on Friday night when he presided over the 2018 Blantyre Archdiocese Dinner & Dance Fundraising […]
Malawi’s Vice President, Dr. Saulos Chilima has described the late Bishop Emmanuel Kanyama as a gifted person and a blessing to many people in the country. Speaking on behalf of President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika on Wednesday at St. Joseph Demonstration Primary School ground during a funeral mass of the late Bishop Kanyama, Chilima said […]
Father Dr Steve Bulambo, who recently graduated with a doctorate in Canon Law from Belgium, is now judicial vicar or the Tribunal of the Diocese of Karonga. He is one of the youthful priests to be appointed for a senior post in local church in Malawi. He was ordained in 2004. Bishop Mtumbuka, who is […]
Catholic faithful and other Malawias will pay their last respects to late Emmanuel Kanyama of the Dedza Diocese on Wednesday when the body of the deceased man of God will be laid to rest at Bembeke Cathedral Cemetery in Dedza District. Bishop Kanyama died of high blood pressure on Saturday in Mchinji district when he went to […]
Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) on Saturday announced the passing on of Bishop Dr Emmanuel Kanyama of Dedza Diocese. ECM Secretary General Fr. Henry Saindi said in a brief statement made available to Nyasa Times that Kanyama passed on at his home, Kapiri, in Mchinji. He did not disclose the cause of death but other […]
State Vice-President Dr Saulos Klaus Chilima attended a Pre-Valentine Dinner and Dance organized by the Archdiocese of Blantyre to raise funds for the two major Catholic seminaries – Kachebere and Saint Peter’s – and appealed to all Catholic faithfuls in the country to contribute to the running of two of education institutions. Chilima, a devout […]
The Episcopal Conference of Malawi, an assembly of Catholic Bishops from all the eight dioceses have elected new office bearers with Archbishop Thomas Luke Msusa of Blantyre Archdiocese and Bishop Martin Mtumbuka of Karonga diocese as Chairman and Vice- Chairman respectively. In a communique to the entire Catholic Community in Malawi and beyond, partner organizations […]
Mchinji district hospital has refuted reports circulating on online news outelt that one of the hospital’s clinicians, Macpherson Thole has been suspended by the District Health Officer (DHO) for disclosing that a Catholic priest from Kachebere Seminary is receiving treatment at the hospital for a sexually transmitted infection. The story which had gone viral on […]