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Josephine Margaret Bakhita, FDCC (Arabic: جوزفين بخيتة; c. 1869 – 8 February 1947) was a Sudanese Catholic religious sister who joined the Canossians after winning her freedom from slavery. She served in Italy for 50 years until her death in 1947.
The Archdiocese of St. Louis' Office of Black Catholic Ministries remembered her at a Mass on April 10, 2024 at St. Josephine Bakhita Catholic Church. The Sister Mary Antona Ebo, FSM Centennial Committee held a celebration on April 13, 2024 at St. Alphonsus Liguori “Rock” Catholic Church, where her funeral was held. [25]
Radio Bakhita 91.0 FM – the Voice of the Church – is a media house owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Juba, South Sudan. [1] It was established in 2006 and officially opened in Juba on 8 February 2007, the day the Church there celebrates the country's first saint, Josephine Bakhita.
Margaret Anna Cusack: Anglican nun who converted to Catholicism; founded The Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, and later left due to conflict with a bishop; later became a critic of the Church's hierarchy [448] and the Society of Jesus; [449] her order survived in the Catholic Church
Catholic Church sex abuse scandal: Los Angeles Archdiocese agrees to pay $880 million to settle sexual abuse claims. Ruling blocks decades-long child sex abuse lawsuits.
The school is named after Josephine Bakhita, the first Sudanese to be declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. [9] As of 2002 St. Bakhita's, run by the Sisters of Mary Mother of the Church of the Torit Catholic diocese, was the only girls' boarding school in southern Sudan, with 600 primary school students and 33 secondary students.
On a sweltering Sunday morning in South Sudan last summer, hundreds of Anuak refugees packed onto the dirt floor of a small, dimly lit church. At the front of the congregation, a tall young man with a microphone began to sing. At first his forceful baritone hung alone in the hot, close air, but he was soon joined by a burst of song from the choir.
A former SpaceX engineer allegedly killed his world traveler wife of five months and critically injured his mom during a horrific attack in a small Maine town. Samuel Whittemore, 34, was visiting ...