The international 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence campaign ran from 25 November to 10 December. The Salesian Life Choices program works with young people in vulnerable circumstances and helps them to tell their stories. Spotlight.africa concludes this series with a story by Beni Kambwa, who fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to escape violence, only to find that it followed her to South Africa. Beni Kambwa (18) is the middle child, she has older twin siblings […]

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His Holiness, Pope Francis, has appointed Fr Joseph Kizito, as the new Bishop of Aliwal in South Africa. Msgr. Joseph Kizito had been the Vicar-General for the Diocese of Aliwal for many years. He had also been responsible for efforts to help stateless children, in the same diocese, acquire their identity documents so that they could access education. Msgr. Joseph Kizito was born on 2 July 1967 in Kampala, Uganda. He studied Philosophy at St. Augustine’s Major Seminary in Roma, […]

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