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AMECEA: A Church Not on Holiday: A Priest’s Reflection on Pastoral Care During COVID-19

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Fr Emmanuel Chimombo, AMECEA Pastoral Coordinator With the current situation of COVID-19, various institutions including schools, Churches and other public places were closed. For a Catholic priest and parishioners, the most disturbing of all has probably been the call to cancel Church worship services. I recall one priest recently saying, “All Churches have now been closed more than thirt...
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Kenyans Participate in Meeting on Young People at the Vatican

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Four people from Kenya are among the representatives participating at the Synod of Bishops that is currently underway at the Vatican. The focus of the top-level meeting in the Catholic Church this time is the young people, their faith and vocation. Synods in the Catholic Church are periodic assemblies of bishops together with other experts that offer a set of proposals to the Pope on a designat...
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AMECEA Representatives Participate in Meeting on Young People at the Vatican from 3-28 October, 2018

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Representatives from the nine AMECEA (Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa) countries are participating in the Synod of Bishops on “Young People, Faith, and Vocational Discernment" at the Vatican in Rome from 3-28 October, 2018. These include 11 Bishop Delegates led by Cardinal John Njue, the Archbishop of Nairobi, Kenya and Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, CM, th...
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Tanzania: Young People Actively Participate in Small Christian Communities Workshop in Dar es Salaam

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“Action Plans” and “Implementation Steps” were the highlights of a "One-day Small Christian Communities (SCCs) Pastoral Solutions Workshop" at Immaculate Conception Parish, Mavurunza in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Saturday, 1 September, 2018. Eighty-two lay people from 54 SCCs in the parish participated in a lively workshop facilitated in Swahili language by Sister Rita Ishengoma STH, and Father ...
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Journeying with Young People in Kenya

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By Collins Ongoma (Source SCCs website) Last week from 24 to 27 April, 2018 I was given a chance to have interactive sessions with the young people1 from different outstations in my parish of St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church in Sultan Hamud, Ngong Diocese, Kenya. Our main focus was to be relevant to this year's theme on the “2018 Year of Young People:” "Young People, Faith and Vocational Dis...
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KENYA: Young People Talk Together and Walk Together

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I thank Pope Francis for the golden invitation he granted to young people to air their views on Facebook especially during the Pre-Synodal Meeting that was held in Rome, Italy from 19th to 24th, March 2018. The Holy Father met more than 300 young people from different continents in person in order to deliberate and come up with a document to be presented to the Synod of Bishops in October, 2018 on...
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AMECEA Taking Small Christian Community Trainings to the Major seminaries

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Christ The King Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Nyeri-Kenya becomes the second Seminary in AMECEA Region to benefit from the AMECEA training on small Christian Communities. Apostles of Jesus Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Nairobi was the first to receive the training which is part of AMECEA’s initiative to expand the program of train personnel to run Small Christian Communities (SCCs) i...
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KENYA: Missio Germany Researcher jets in to learn about Small Christian Communities

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Missio Aachen German Theological Researcher Miriam Leidinger is currently in Kenya to find out how Africa especially the Kenyan Church has been able to grow strong in faith from the Small Christian Communities (SCC’s). Speaking during an interview with Waumini Communications, at the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) – General Secretariat in Nairobi, Leidinger said that she is meeting Pa...
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