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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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Small Christian Communities in Kenya as the Perfect Base for Charity, Prayer and Mercy

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By Moses Murrira Muttai  (Source SCCs website) Introduction From the very beginning when the concept of Small Christian Communities was introduced, God’s will in His son Jesus Christ was being realized. Life in a Small Christian Community is simply our baptismal brotherhood and sisterhood lived out practically with a few people. As Father Joseph Healey puts it, Small Christian Community is a c...
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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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KENYA: ‘There is a need for Bishops delegates and Youth Respresentatives to the Synod from AMECEA to have a Listening Session,’ – Fr Healey

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The former Secretary of AMECEA Social Communications Department Rev. Fr. Joseph Healey, MM has suggested that a meeting between the Bishops delegates and representatives of young people to the 15th Ordinary Synod from all AMECEA Countries be organized in order to create a culture of listening to young people. He explained in an interview with AMECEA Online News that over the years AMECEA ha...
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AMECEA: Pastoral Departments Across AMECEA Region to Integrate Laudato SI in all Pastoral Programs.

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The Pastoral Departments of the Episcopal Conferences of AMECEA Countries are planning to integrate the message in the encyclical Laudato Si in all the pastoral programs of the individual Bishops Conferences. According to the Coordinator of AMECEA Pastoral Department Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Chimombo, the decision was made during the recent Annual National Pastoral Coordinators’ meeting held at AM...
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AMECEA: AMECEA Pastoral Department Spearheads a move to Develop a Child Protection Policy Framework

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Following the workshop that took place from 11th February to 25th February, 2017 in the Catholic diocese of Malindi, Kenya, members recommended that AMECEA should establish a framework on Child Protection Policy from which each Bishops’ Conference or diocese within the region will draw guidelines that would safeguard and protect children and minors from abuse. The workshop which brought together ...
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KENYA: AMECEA Publishes a Small Christian Communities Training Handbook for Facilitators

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As a practical response to the AMECEA Pastoral Strategic Plan 2014-2024, AMECEA has published a training handbook for facilitators of Small Christian Communities (SCCs), which fulfills an emerging need for inducing training contents and methodologies for individuals and groups actively involved in the facilitation of SCCs Processes. The handbook which was edited by a team of experts in SCCs...
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Promoting Lay People’s Involvement in Small Christian Communities and Mission in Africa

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By Francis Njuguna A Theological Symposium on “Mission Ad Gentes: 50 Years and Beyond” was organized by the School of Theology of the Tangaza University College, Langata in Nairobi, Kenya on 8-9 February 2016. An integral part of the symposium was 10 Break-out Sessions (small group discussions) on Tuesday afternoon on questions related to Ad Gentes. This reflected the process of participation and...
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