Catholic synod: Family values and the Church

Catholic Church set plans for quality education
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THE Catholic Church is committed to improving quality of education by deploying the required standards at all levels of learning. Speaking in the city on Friday, the Archbishop of Dar es Salaam Catholic Diocese His Eminence Polycarp Cardinal Pengo ...

Catholic Church accused of profiting from underage labour

Catholic Church marks 150 years in Zanzibar
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ZANZIBAR marks yet another historic event after recent celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of revolution. Being the first place in East Africa where early Roman Catholic missionaries opened a missionary centre in 1864, Zanzibar today celebrates 150 ...

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Archbishop of the Songea Diocese of the Catholic Church, Damian Dallu
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Marking Easter celebrations, a cross-section of clerics has urged government leaders to take prompt action against all acts that threaten the country's peace and tranquility. Archbishop of the Songea Diocese of the Catholic Church, Damian Dallu, said that ...

>Pope Francis on Sunday issued a strong signal of support for reform of the Catholic Church’s approach to marriage, cohabitation and divorce as bishops began a landmark review of teaching on the family.

There is no doubt that international observers, human rights groups and Catholics would keep discussing about the two-week Catholic Bishops’ synod in Vatican City that ended last week.

National values are stipulated in Article 5 of Chapter One of the Draft Constitution (2014) as dignity, patriotism, integrity, unity, transparency, accountability and the national language

It is past midnight. We are at the Royal Palm Hotel in Dar es Salaam (today Dar es Salaam Serena Hotel). We have been waiting for the first copy of The Citizen maiden edition, fresh from the state-of-the-art printing press along Mandela Road.

No doubt issues about the Union structure have overshadowed the whole agenda on constitution making. Before and after the commencement of the Constituent Assembly (CA), various analysts have been talking and writing a lot on the Union structure and forget other fundamental elements contained in the same Draft Constitution.