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Africa to host first-ever SIGNIS World Congress in Kigali

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August 11, 2025
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Fr. Walter C. Ihejirika, Ph.D. - President, SIGNIS Africa

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Africa will, for the first time, host the SIGNIS World Congress, with Kigali, Rwanda, set to welcome global Catholic communicators from 3 to 8 August 2026, expected to draw media professionals, Church leaders and communication experts from across the world.

The announcement was made in Accra by the President of SIGNIS Africa, Rev. Fr. Walter C. Ihejirika, Ph.D., during the opening of the 2025 Union Catholique Africaine de la Presse (UCAP) Congress at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration.

“May I use this opportunity to inform you that for the first time in the history of SIGNIS, our continent will be hosting the SIGNIS World Congress in Kigali, Rwanda from the 3rd to the 8th of August, 2026,” Fr. Ihejirika said.

The SIGNIS Africa President explained that the announcement follows recent engagements with the leadership of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), where plans for the Congress were presented to the Church in Africa. Extending a special invitation, he added, “I wish to extend a prior invitation to the members of UCAP to be part of that August event.”

Beyond this, Fr. Ihejirika highlighted ongoing discussions aimed at integrating UCAP more closely with SIGNIS. This move, he noted stems from a 2016 directive from the Vatican, which approved the canonical statutes of SIGNIS and recognised it as the official Catholic Association for Communication.

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“Within the last year, I have held meetings with the leadership of UCAP to examine modalities of this integration. This Congress will afford us a good opportunity to further deepen our discussions and possibly reach a conclusion,” he stated.

Commending UCAP’s leadership for the organisation of the week-long gathering, he noted the relevance of its deliberations, saying, “The theme and topics are well apt to the current needs of the Church and the society. I am very confident that we will reap bountiful intellectual, spiritual and social fruits at the end.”

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Daily Reading

Tuesday of the Twentieth week in Ordinary Time

Book of Judges 6,11-24a.

The angel of the LORD came and sat under the... terebinth in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. While his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press to save it from the Midianites,
the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said, "The LORD is with you, O champion!"
"My Lord," Gideon said to him, "if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are his wondrous deeds of which our fathers told us when they said, 'Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' For now the LORD has abandoned us and has delivered us into the power of Midian."
The LORD turned to him and said, "Go with the strength you have and save Israel from the power of Midian. It is I who send you."
But he answered him, "Please, my lord, how can I save Israel? My family is the meanest in Manasseh, and I am the most insignificant in my father's house."
"I shall be with you," the LORD said to him, "and you will cut down Midian to the last man."
He answered him, "If I find favor with you, give me a sign that you are speaking with me.
Do not depart from here, I pray you, until I come back to you and bring out my offering and set it before you." He answered, "I will await your return."
So Gideon went off and prepared a kid and an ephah of flour in the form of unleavened cakes. Putting the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, he brought them out to him under the terebinth and presented them.
The angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and unleavened cakes and lay them on this rock; then pour out the broth." When he had done so,
the angel of the LORD stretched out the tip of the staff he held, and touched the meat and unleavened cakes. Thereupon a fire came up from the rock which consumed the meat and unleavened cakes, and the angel of the LORD disappeared from sight.
Gideon, now aware that it had been the angel of the LORD, said, "Alas, Lord GOD, that I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!"
The LORD answered him, "Be calm, do not fear. You shall not die."
So Gideon built there an altar to the LORD and called it Yahweh-shalom.

Psalms 85(84),9.11-12.13-14.

I will hear what God proclaims;
the... LORD–for he proclaims peace.
To his people, and to his faithful ones,
and to those who put in him their hope.

Kindness and truth shall meet;
justice and peace shall kiss.
Truth shall spring out of the earth,
and justice shall look down from heaven.

The LORD himself will give his benefits;
our land shall yield its increase.
Justice shall walk before him,
and salvation, along the way of his steps.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 19,23-30.

Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, I say... to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."
When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and said, "Who then can be saved?"
Jesus looked at them and said, "For human beings this is impossible, but for God all things are possible."
Then Peter said to him in reply, "We have given up everything and followed you. What will there be for us?"
Jesus said to them, "Amen, I say to you that you who have followed me, in the new age, when the Son of Man is seated on his throne of glory, will yourselves sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for the sake of my name will receive a hundred times more, and will inherit eternal life.
But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first."


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