The Catholic Information Service for Africa: An Invaluable Catholic Resource

Many of the participants and readers of the Mirror of Justice may be well aware of the invaluable Catholic Information Service for Africa (CISA), but for those (like me until recently) who are not, let me highlight this Kenyan-based source of news about the African continent. At least twice each week the CISA provides a list of news stories about Africa – ranging from the ongoing genocide in Darfur to the recent peaceful transition of power in Liberia – with a special focus on the activities of the Catholic Church and on events that have a Catholic or faith-based perspective. (And for research purposes, the CISA maintains extraordinarily extensive news archives as well.)

The CISA was founded by Catholic congregations looking to network together as the local Church in Africa and to link with the Universal Church. The mission statement explains: “The Catholic Information Service for Africa (CISA) wants to provide its audience with news about the Church from an African perspective, be at the service of the local Church and open to the world.”

Not only does the CISA provide a continual and reliable source of news about developments throughout Africa, which of course is its greatest treasure, but the CISA also is an excellent resource on Vatican and Catholic developments generally. I’m sure that many of our participants and readers regularly consult various internet sites for news about the Vatican. Let me encourage you to start your news briefings with the CISA, which will connect you not only with the news from Rome but allow you to remain better informed about the precious continent that is the birthplace of the human race and, in my view, likely to be central to the future of our common faith. You can access the CISA news service through this link.

Greg Sisk