VoiceAfrique: Perspectives on Faith , Life and Politics from Africa and the Diaspora

Send us Fan Mail An Invitation to be hopeful in the midst of the Cross that you are carrying in your life at this very moment. There is no cross or challenge that you face today which the Lord cannot help you to overcome. Be Strong. Hold on to your faith. Trust God. Know that God suffers with you and carries the Cross with you. This is an inspirational message to help you live with hope and positi...

Send us Fan Mail Fr Andrew Kaufa, the Director of Communication of the Association of Member of the Episcopal Conference of East Africa, shares the joys and hopes of African Catholics in the synodal journey so far. 

Send us Fan Mail Fr Don Bosco Onyala, the editor-in-chief of the Association for Catholic Information in  Africa (ACI Africa) speaks on the 5th anniversary of ACI Africa, and the joy of being an African Church communicator. He shares the success story of ACIA, the vision and plan for the future, and the challenges and opportunities of communicating the Good news about Africa to African people and...

Send us Fan Mail Recently the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) issued an important letter on liturgical abuses in the country. In this episode, Bishop Augustine Echema the head of CBCN's Liturgy Committee gives a context to this letter, deepens an understanding of the foundation of the liturgy and inculturation theology. His pastoral insights are refreshing, compelling, and magis...

Send us Fan Mail What led the Holy Prophet Elijah to wish for death? How did God respond to his request? You may have reached the end of your strength in life and like the prophet your enemies may be pursuing you. There is help in God always. When we bring our stories, fears, hurts, and frustrations to God, we receive divine help and food for the journey. There is help always for those who do not...

Send us Fan Mail We have in Jesus, the Bread of Life, all that God in God’s love and goodness has offered for our spiritual and material life as human beings. God has freely given us this gift without any merit on our part for our own good and sanctification.  May we always be grateful for this gift and come to the Lord everyday with faith and joy to receive from the Lord this gift which for us he...

Send us Fan Mail All the Popes since the Second Vatican Council have sang the praises of African Christianity. Africa is witnessing an exponential growth in the population of Catholics. However, since the publication of Fiducia Supplicans and the rejection of the document by the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM),  the Church in Africa is beginning to take the lead...

Send us Fan Mail Dr Jude Dumfeh, an award winning internal medicine and pediatric physician and his wife, Evelyn Dumfeh share with us the challenges they faced when their daughter was diagnosed with sickle cell disease. Their family experience is a testimony of love that triumphs all things; sacrifice in the midst of pain; and hope and faith in God's goodness and healing that is brought about...

Send us Fan Mail In this Easter homily, Bishop Gerard Musa of Katsina Diocese delivers a touching message about the incredible transformative power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He eloquently explains that for believers, death is not the ultimate end but instead a transformation to a new life.  The bishop emphasizes that faith in Jesus means that death is not a permanent separation from lov...

Send us Fan Mail As Pope Francis celebrates his eleventh year on the Chair of Peter, some Catholics might disagree on his legacy; but all agree that his papacy has been consequential. In this episode, we look at some of the central teachings of Pope Francis and especially the current Synod on Synodality, and his call for missionary conversion and for a Church with  an open doors that goes out to t...

Send us Fan Mail Christians are called to give alms to the poor and reach out to all those who need our help. In this episode, we talk about doing charity and working for justice and the best way to do almsgiving so as to find favor with God. We also critically analyze the challenging social conditions in many African countries and discuss what is causing so much poverty, suffering, and misery in...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk on the importance of prayer in the lives of African Christians. During this Lent, we are invited to deepen our prayer life. The episode delves into different kinds of prayers and raises the questions: How can we pray better? Does God answer all our prayers? Must we pray always until something happens? Is there something like an unanswered prayer?

Send us Fan Mail The Gospel presents to us the story of a woman who was searching for God. She was a woman who had no name. In the NT, those who have no name are usually people who have no status in society. She was also a Samaritan. The Samaritans were regarded as inferior spiritually by the Israelites because they were unfaithful to God’s covenant and worshipped idols. They were outcasts. Jesus...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Sr Jane and Fr Stan discuss the Lenten discipline of fasting, abstinence and penance. They invite the people of God to a deeper reflection on the reality of suffering and poverty in Africa. God's people are already living a long penance of fasting with the rising cost of living, inflation, and failing governments that have failed to take care of the poor and t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Sr Jane Kimathi, shares her stories of the life of the African female religious. In this frank discussion, Sr Jane teaches us how to fall in love with God and how  African religious women are living their religious life faithfully and fruitfully. It is a life that they live on earthen vessels amidst two fires that burn in the religious: the fire of love for God an...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Sr Jane and Fr Stan offer some spiritual insights on how we can journey together throughout these forty days with the Lord. The Lord invites you to walk through the desert with faith and trust in the Lord who leads us on the way. The Lord asks you today to leave your slavery to sin and fear behind; to leave your past behind; and to cast all your weaknesses behind...

Send us Fan Mail In this recent episode of the African Catholic Voice, a group of amazing African Digital Faith Influencers had an interesting conversation with Sr Titilayo Aduloju. They discussed a six-month formation program that aims to help them stand up for their faith among their peers who live in the digital peripheries.  The influencers also shared that this program is fully in line with P...

Send us Fan Mail Archbishop Scicluna of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith has called on the Church to consider ending celibacy as a way of preventing clerics from living " a dangerous double life." Chapter 11 of the Synodal synthesis report also invites us to pay attention to "different opinions that have been expressed about priestly celibacy." This episode begins this c...

Send us Fan Mail Co-hosts, Sr Jane Kamathi and Fr Stan Chu Ilo discuss sex, sexuality, and the taboos around them in Africa. They delve into the beauty of sex, sexuality, and the theology of the body. They answer the questions: Why are people uncomfortable to talk about sexual issues or to discuss about their sexuality in Africa? Why are people unwilling to open up about the traumas and abuses the...

Send us Fan Mail Fr Marcel Uwineza, Principal of Hekima University College, Nairobi speaks on the achievement of this premier Jesuit university, and the vision and hope for the future. Listen to the moving narrative of Fr Uwineza's spiritual and theological journey of surviving the genocide in Rwanda and witnessing his parents' violent deaths and his message of hope on how to make sense...

Send us Fan Mail Rose Egolet, Ugandan humanitarian, and grassroots women mobiliser based in Moshe, Tanzania, challenges the notion that polygamy is a good cultural practice in Africa that should be accepted today. He agrees with the view of one of our listeners,  Amainini Regina Matambanazo, that no one should ever endorse polygamy in Africa because of issues arising from polygamous marriages-jeal...

Send us Fan Mail Prof Itumeleng Mothoagae, a South African biblical scholar and Head of the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of South Africa addresses the contested questions around polygamy in Africa. He introduces what he calls 'biculturality and bireligiosity' in understanding why the churches in Africa are struggling with finding the right pastoral respons...

Send us Fan Mail Rose Egolet, an advocate for women justice and human rights and resource mobilization advisor for Kilimanjaro Women Information and Education Community Organization (KWIECO), Moshi-Tanzania (funded by Crossroads International), and Fr Ruffino Ezama, Provincial superior of the Comboni Missionaries of the North American Province, share their thoughts on the punitive measures of West...

Send us Fan Mail Bishop Paride Taban who died at 87 on All Saints Day has left an inedible mark in South Sudan, Sudan, and the rest of Africa and the world as a peace-builder, a peace-maker, and a servant leader. In establishing the Peace Village, he has left a permanent example of how to be a pastor with the smell of a sheep and how to heal the wounds and brokenness of war through love, selfless...

Send us Fan Mail Co-hosts Sr Chantal and Fr Stan discuss the latest statistics on the growth of the Catholic population in Africa. Why is Africa witnessing the fastest growth in Catholic population worldwide? How can African Catholics use this population growth to drive the mission of God in Africa? How can African Catholics use its great population to influence the worldwide church on some of the...