Ngala Killian Chimtom, Author at Catholic Herald

Ngala Killian Chimtom

Bishop Kukah: optimism in ‘complicated’ Nigeria despite fears of increasing Islamization

December 09, 2023

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – A leading Nigerian prelate has said that the very structure of the state in Africa’s most populous nation is “dysfunctional” and “not working,” including the division of the country into 36 states and the role of the military in national affairs. Despite fears under President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima,

Numbers of African Catholics boom as Church in Europe continues to shrink

October 30, 2023

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – A leading Nigerian prelate has said that Africans see Catholicism in the West as a “Church in decline” while in Africa Christianity is flourishing because of a strong Biblical faith and traditional moral convictions. “The African understanding of Biblical authority, sex, marriage, and sin may strike Western liberals as backward and superstitious,”

Nigeria bishops denounce violence, including assaults on priests and other Christians

September 27, 2023

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – Catholic bishops in Africa’s most populous nation have warned that Nigeria effectively has been taken over by insurgents, militia and criminal gangs, with Christians, including Catholic priests, among the most frequent victims. At the end of their Second Plenary Meeting, held at a hotel in the capital area of Abuja Sept. 7-15,

Archbishop of Mombasa decries official recognition of Kenyan gay-rights group

September 16, 2023

A leading Catholic prelate in Kenya, who’s set to take part in a Vatican Synod of Bishops next month, has objected to a ruling by the country’s Supreme Court allowing a gay rights group to obtain official recognition as an NGO. In an interview with the ACI news agency, Archbishop Martin Kivuva Musonde of the

Church rushes to Morocco’s aid after devastating earthquake

September 13, 2023

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – As Morocco continues to struggle to cope with its worst earthquake to strike a major urban centre in a century, which so far has left almost 3,000 people dead and at least that number injured, Catholic leaders are scrambling to contribute to the relief effort. Rescue teams are engaged in a race

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