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2018 Report of the Africa Region to the Orbis Books Advisory Committee Meeting

Posted on December 18, 2018January 17, 2019 by mbererere

By Joseph Healey, M.M. Maryknoll, New York, USA 12-13 December, 2018 NOTE: This 2018 Report presupposes the comments and suggestions made in previous reports. Interactive Book Event Rather than a Book Launch: A New Strategy This new strategy involves both content and process. We had a successful Book Event to launch two 2018 Orbis Books at Hekima University College, Nairobi, Keny...
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AMECEA: French translation of ‘Small Christian Community Training’ Handbook Nears Completion

Posted on December 17, 2018January 17, 2019 by mbererere

The AMECEA Small Christian Community Training handbook has caught the attention of many both in AMECEA Region and in Africa at large, and also outside the continent; this according to Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Chimombo, AMECEA Pastoral Coordinator prompted the need to translate the handbook to French language to make it accessible to many. “As we promote the ecclesiology of Small Christian Community in ...
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Kenyans Participate in Meeting on Young People at the Vatican

Posted on October 11, 2018January 17, 2019 by mbererere

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

Posted on October 6, 2018January 17, 2019 by mbererere

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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KENYA: Fifth Workshop of Network Small Christian Communities in Africa Centralizes on Revitalization of Youth SCC

Posted on September 21, 2018January 17, 2019 by mbererere

As the Universal Church prepares for the Youth Synod to be held in Rome next month, members of the Network Small Christian Communities in Africa (NSCCA) met in Nairobi Kenya to explore ways of revitalizing young people in the Small Christian Communities (SCCs) in Africa. The objectives of the meeting included, to listen to the young people and learn their experiences in SCCs, to find strategies o...
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Case Study on Young Adult Small Christian Community (YASCC) in Nairobi, Kenya

Posted on September 20, 2018 by mbererere

Visiting Dandora Parish in Nairobi, Kenya on Sunday, 16 September, 2018 12 members of the Missio-sponsored Network Small Christian Communities Africa Workshop came up with a new mantra: "We create new paths by walking based on the local context." I interviewed three Kenyan members of the newly formed Young Adult Small Christian Community (YASCC): a 26-year-old male recent college graduate lookin...
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KENYA: AMECEA Launches Second Edition of Small Christian Community Training Handbook

Posted on September 14, 2018January 17, 2019 by mbererere

A Revised Second Edition of the book “Strengthening the Growth of Small Christian Communities in Africa, a Training Handbook for Facilitators” has been published. Currently being sold as an e-book, electronic book by the Daughters of St. Paul and also by Amazon worldwide, the book was officially launched by AMECEA on Friday, September 14, 2018 during the opening of the 5th Workshop of Network Sma...
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Tanzania: Young People Actively Participate in Small Christian Communities Workshop in Dar es Salaam

Posted on September 7, 2018January 17, 2019 by mbererere

“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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Young People Actively Participate in SCCs Workshop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Posted on September 5, 2018January 17, 2019 by mbererere

“Action Plans” and “Implementation Steps” were the highlights of a "One-day Small Christian Communities (SCCs) Pastoral Solutions Workshop" in Swahili at Immaculate Conception Parish, Mavurunza in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on Saturday, 1 September, 2018. 82 lay people from the 54 SCCs in the parish participated in the lively workshop (not a seminar) facilitated by Sister Rita Ishengoma, STH and Fat...
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ETHIOPIA: COMMUNIQUÉ of the 19th AMECEA Plenary Assembly held in in Addis Ababa

Posted on July 22, 2018January 17, 2019 by mbererere

COMMUNIQUÉ 19th AMECEA Plenary Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; (13th to 23rd July, 2018) “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus…..”(Galatians 3:28) The Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA), comprising of the Episcopal Conferences of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Malawi, Kenya, Tanz...
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