Malawi Catholic bishops have condemned homosexuality in a pastoral statement released on Sunday, saying it is sinful practices which shouldn’t be tolerated in a God fearing nation like Malawi. “The Church maintains that while the homosexual orientation is disordered, it is not sinful in itself. However, once a person with this orientation or indeed a […]
Introductory Remarks From the earliest days of the Church, it has been clear that the Bishops have a unique role in passing on the faith and applying the teaching of Christ to the circumstances of the day. Catholic teaching is authenticated by the Church’s teaching office that mirrors and transmits the revelation of Christ under […]
Malawi parliament this week passed a government bill which critics say will make abortion legal in the country and bishops of the influential Catholic church in Malawi in a pastoral statement—expected to be read on Sunday—they have spoken against abortion and artificial birth control measures. When Gender, Children and Social Welfare Minister Anita Kalinde tabled […]
The influential Catholic church in Malawi has expressed gratitude for the end to a strike by more than 100,000 government employees but rued the plight of the nation’s poor. The Church has since urged President Joyce Banda and her government to show serious responsibility in proactively dealing with economic hardships that face the country from […]
Archbishop Tarcisius Ziyaye has urged Catholics to continue praying for the church’s leadership after the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. He said this when he celebrated Ash Wednesday Mass, to mark first day of Lent, which he led in celebration at St Montfort Catholic Institute (CI) church in Blantyre. The Archbishop said even though the resignation […]
The Malawi Catholic Bishops and political leaders have paid tribute to the outgoing Pope Benedict XVI, after the pontiff’s unexpected decision to resign on health grounds. The body of bishops Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) hailed Pope Benedict XVI for his effortS in spearheading the move towards the return of what they call original Catholic […]
The Pope is to resign at the end of this month in an entirely unexpected development, the Vatican has confirmed. The 85-year-old became Pope Benedict XVI in April 2005 following the death of John Paul II. The Vatican Radio website has the full text of the pope’s statement today. Here it is in full: Dear Brothers, […]
Catholic bishops in Malawi are holding their first plenary meeting for this year from January 28 to February 1 2013. Meeting at the Catholic secretariat in Lilongwe the bishops will discuss among others the progress of the activities proposed for the Year of Faith proclaimed by Pope Benedict XV1 running from October 11 2012 to […]
Five substations that make up Mzambazi Catholic Parish at Euthini in Mzimba district have petitioned his Grace Bishop Joseph Zuza of the Mzuzu diocese asking for the immediate removal of Reverend Father Mark Mkandawire saying the cleric’s alleged sexual relationships is denting the Catholic Church. The substations are; Heneric, St John Bosco, St James, St […]
A parish priest of Mzambazi Roman Catholic Church in Malawi’s northern district of -Mzimba at Euthini area was on Saturday caught red-handed having sex with a wife of the losing opposition Democratic Progressive Party’s parliamentary aspirant in the recently held Mzimba by-elections Owen Mkandawire. Confirming the incident Nkandawire told Nyasa Times on Sunday that he caught his […]
About 100 children received their first Eucharist Sacrament on December 25 2012 at Ndirande Parish in the Blantyre Archdiocese and the parish priest urged them to stick to sacraments all their life. The parish priest, Fr. Donatus told the children that they had started a new life and were now united with Christ Himself who […]
Luntha TV, a Catholic television station based in the Malawi southern town of Balaka, has signed an agreement with DW-TV, the official German TV broadcast of Deutsche Welle, to beam some of its programmes. Luntha TV director-general, the Rev. Fr. Andrew Kaufa, said the station was also set to sign a similar agreement with the Chinese […]
Thousands of Roman Catholic faithfuls and other denominations gathered at Mzimu Woyera Seminary Cemetery in Chikhwawa district on Wednesday to pay their last respect to the late Emeritus Bishop Felix Mkhori of the Archdiocese of Lilongwe, who was laid to rest on Wednesday. At exactly, 1:55 Pm the body of Bishop Mkhori, who died at […]
Malawi Catholic Church christians from Blantyre ArchDiocese converged at College of Medicine mortuary to pay their last respect to Bishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Lilongwe, Right Reverend Felix Eugenio Mkhori, who died on Saturday at Mwaiwathu Private Hospital in Blantyre. At exactly 2:03pm Arch Bishop Tarcizio Ziyaye of Blantyre ArcDiocese and Allan Changwera Bishop […]
Malawi Catholics are grieving the death of emeritus Bishop Felix Eugenio who Mkhori who passed away on Saturday at the age of 81. ECM Chairperson Bishop Joseph Zuza, Archbishop of Lilongwe Archdiocese and Bishop Peter Musikuwa of Chikwawa diocese, announced in a statement made available to Nyasa Times that Late Bishop Mkhori died on Saturday morning at […]
An American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Theodore E. McCarric, says there is need for the church to help President Joyce Banda in uplifting the welfare of Malawians. His Eminence Mc Carrich, he most prominent Catholic clergyman in the United States, was speaking when he paid courtesy call to President Banda at State House […]
Malawi’sVice President Khumbo Kachali joined Roman Catholics on Friday to mourn the death of Bishop Patrick Augustine Kalilombe on Friday. Kalilombe, who died on Monday aged 79, was the first Malawian bishop to join the Order of the White Fathers, now called Missionaries of Africa. In his condolence message delivered at Likuni Parish in Lilongwe, […]
The Catholic Church in the country is mourning the death of Bishop emeritus Dr Patrick Augustine Kalilombe. The death has been confirmed by Catholic secretariat in Lilongwe. He has died at the age of 79. Bishop Kalilombe was born on August 28, 1933. Kalilombe served as Bishop of Lilongwe from 1972 to 1979. But in 1976 […]