(Agnes Aineah. ACI Africa).
Theologians in Africa have published a 20-chapter commentary on the Synthesis Report (SR), the 42-page summary report following the 4-29 October 2023 session of the ongoing Synod on Synodality, to create more localized conversations on the report.
‘Refugees in their own land’: Kenyans experience homelessness due to severe floods
(Doreen Ajiambo. National Catholic Reporter)
Sitting outside her tent in the Khumwanda camp for internally displaced persons, or IDPs, in this remote region of western Kenya, Flora Membe lamented how she lost her home to flooded rivers five years ago
The church was named Good News. Hundreds of members died in a cult massacre that haunts survivors
(RODNEY MUHUMUZA. AP News)
Shukran Karisa Mangi always showed up drunk at work, where he dug up the bodies of doomsday cult members buried in shallow graves. But the alcohol couldn’t numb his shock the morning he found the body of a close friend, whose neck had been twisted so severely that his head and torso faced opposite directions.
(Agnes Aineah. ACI Africa).
Les communautés ecclésiales de base (CEB), nouvelle façon d’être Église en Afrique, ouvrent la voie à l’union des différentes confessions chrétiennes, a déclaré un œcuméniste non catholique.
(Silas Isenjia. ACI Africa).
The Programs Manager at Laudato Si’ Movement in Africa has called on the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) to ensure that its climate financing is equitable and does not exacerbate existing injustices on the African continent.
“They are sending us missionaries of evil”: Catholic Archbishops in Africa
(Jonathan Liedl. ACI Africa).
The West used to send Africa the Gospel. Now, African Church leaders are warning that Western nations and individuals are spreading a far different message throughout the continent, in what they describe as a warped form of proselytization.
Catholic bishops ask Kenya’s government to pay mission hospital debts
(Daniel Sitole. National Catholic Reporter)
Catholic hospitals in Kenya have long been sources of quality medical care for the poor and disadvantaged as government-run facilities lack medicine, and are mismanaged.
(Agnes Aineah. ACI Africa).
Being a Catholic Bishop in Africa involves a lot of work that sometimes leaves Bishops exhausted, participants at a the10th session of the ongoing synodal palavers have been told, and urged to be more patient with their shepherds who sometimes appear not to be available for everyone.
(Agnes Aineah. ACI Africa).
Hierarchies in the Catholic Church ensure that there is someone who calls everything to order, the Secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization has said, underscoring the role that Local Ordinaries play in the Church in Africa.
(Jude Atemanke. ACI Africa)
Les participants à la sixième session des conversations synodales en cours sur le Synode sur la synodalité ont proposé des moyens pour les jeunes catholiques d’Afrique d’utiliser efficacement les médias sociaux dans leur participation à la mission d’évangélisation de l’Église.
Kenyan bishops urge protesting youth to accept dialogue amid another peak of violence
(Fredrick Nzwili. National Catholic Reporter).
Catholic bishops in Kenya are urging protesting youth to accept dialogue, while reminding them that remaining intolerant could push the country into anarchy.
(Silas Isenjia. ACI Africa).
As the retrieval of dismembered bodies tied up in sacks and dumped in an abandoned quarry used as a dumpsite in Kenya’s Embakasi South Constituency in Nairobi has continued, Archbishop Philip Anyolo Subira of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi (ADN) has called for respect for human life.
Synodal Process in Africa “should also foster intergenerational dialogue”: Catholic Youths
(Jude Atemanke. ACI Africa).
There is need for the Church in Africa to foster interactions between the young and the not-so young people in the spirit of the multi-year ongoing Synod on Synodality, which Pope Francis extended to 2024, with the first phase, 4-29 October 2023, having concluded with a 42-page summary report.
Les évêques de l’AMECEA s’engagent à protéger les personnes vulnérables
(Vatican News)
Les évêques de l’Association des Conférences épiscopales Membres de l’Afrique de l’Est (AMECEA), en collaboration avec la Commission pontificale pour la protection des mineurs (PCPM), ont conclu une réunion consultative à Roussel House à Nairobi, au Kenya, pour discuter sur des actions menées pour la protection des enfants et des adultes vulnérables dans la région de l’Afrique de l’Est.
(Agnes Aineah. Aciafrica).
When the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith (DDF) issued Fiducia Supplicans, the declaration permitting the blessing of “same-sex couples” and couples in other “irregular situations”, Catholic Church leaders in Africa expressed their sharp opposition to the move.
(Jude Atemanke. ACI Africa).
L’Eglise d’Afrique peut s’inspirer de l’expérience des Eglises orientales du continent pour vivre le Synode sur la synodalité, ont déclaré les participants à une conversation virtuelle.
(Silas Isenjia. ACI Africa).
Lasting peace in and rebirth of Africa are only possible if Christians and Muslims on the continent go beyond their differences and decide to uphold “mutual respect and cooperation”, John Cardinal Onaiyekan has said.
(Crux. Ngala Killian Chimtom).
Catholic bishops in Kenya have expressed disgust at the heavy-handed response of the police to anti-tax protesters that has resulted in several deaths. The Kenyan parliament on Tuesday voted for the controversial 2024/25 Finance Bill that sparked nationwide protests. The proposed law raises taxes on essential items like bread, vegetable oil, and sugar, raises an eco-levy that would apply to most manufactured goods (including items like sanitary towels and diapers), increases banking charges, and imposes higher annual charges on car owners. The tax bill seeks to raise an additional $2.7 billion in taxes, in order to decrease the country’s budget deficit without incurring additional debts.
(Global Sisters Report. Doreen Ajiambo).
Dozens of religious sisters under the Association of Sisterhoods of Kenya (or AOSK) gathered on June 14 at the Radix Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, for the official launch of the Communication Network for Catholic Sisters. The project, CNCS, empowers sisters working in their ministries to tell their own stories through media such as print, broadcast and digital. Sponsored by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation’s Catholic Sisters Initiative, the project organized a two-day workshop before the launch to train 13 sisters who are already involved in communication and media. After completing the program, they can also teach other sisters to tell their own stories as well. Sr. Jane Wakahiu of the Little Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi lauded the project, saying it’s important to religious sisters in their evangelization, especially in an age where media plays a vital role in shaping public opinion and influencing people’s lives.
(Crux. Ngala Killian Chimton)
A new 2023-2030 strategic plan for East Africa that has been described as “the start of the journey of hope” has been launched by the Catholic Relief Services. The seven-year plan that was announced in Nairobi, Kenya on June 18 lays emphasis on a broad range of issues, including tackling climate change adaptation, fostering youth development, ensuring Health, nutrition and social services as well as the provision of water, hygiene and sanitation. It also promises to tackle issues like responding to emergencies, fostering local leadership and supporting disabled people. For the past four years, Kenya has suffered drought that has never been seen in recent times and just as the country was recovering from the drought, it then had some of its worst floods.