Cdl. Ambongo (president of African bishops' conferences) says Africa's bishops won't implement Fiducia Supplicans, over “confusion..scandal” it would cause in African society and text is in “direct contradiction” with African culture. Says position is approved by Pope Francis.

The Congregation of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer stands with Cardinal Müller, the bishops of Malawi, Kazakhstan, Zambia and Nigeria, with Archbishop Viganò, Bishop Strickland and all bishops, priests and faithful who recognise that the priestly blessing of couples in “irregular relationships” and the blessing of “homosexual couples” is opposed to Catholic Faith and Morals; opposed to the teaching of the Church for the last two thousand years; and must be opposed by us and by all Catholics.
Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.’ They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2357). Because Carnal union is morally legitimate only when a definitive community of …More

"I hereby prohibit all priests in the Catholic Diocese of Wote from blessing of couples in irregular situation or same-sex couples. Therefore, to bless couples in an irregular situation or the same-sex couples who are not ready for conversion directly and seriously contradicts the Scripture Teachings and Sound Magisterium. Worse more still, in this 21st Century, it will only support the propagandist of the globalist and ungodly gender ideology."

"A respeito das béngios informais a “casais irregulares” (homossexuais), embora sejam um sacramental diverso da béngdo litúrgica, consideramos que no nosso contexto cultural e eclesial criariam um enorme escándalo e confuso entre os féis"

CARDINAL PRESIDENT of Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa & Madagascar (SECAM) sends letter to presidents of local bishops conferences asking their opinion on Vatican Declaration on Blessings in view of drawing up a single response “valid for the whole Church in Africa”