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Summary of Small Reflection Groups During Tangaza Symposium in February, 2019

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Small Reflection Groups 3:10 p.m. to 3:55 p.m. Tuesday, 19 February, 2019 Tangaza University College Nairobi, Kenya Selection of the 10 Topics/Themes There were 10 Topics/Themes for the Small Reflection Groups[1] during the Tuesday afternoon session of the symposium. This February, 2019 symposium built on the themes of the February, 2017 symposium. See Giuseppe Caramazza and Eleanor ...
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Final Document of the Synod of Bishops on Young People, Faith and Vocational Discernment

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Content: INTRODUCTION PREAMBLE PART I “HE WALKED WITH THEM” Chapter 1 A Listening Church Chapter II Three crucial Elements Chapter III Identity and relations Chapter IV Being young Today PART II “THEIR EYES WERE OPENED” Chapter I The gift of Youth Chapter II The Mystery of Vocation Chapter III The mission to accompany Chapter IV The Art of Discernment PART III THEY SET OFF WITHOUT DEL...
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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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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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Final Document from the Pre-Synodal Meeting

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SYNOD OF BISHOPS XV ORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY “YOUNG PEOPLE, THE FAITH AND VOCATIONAL DISCERNMENT” PRE-SYNODAL MEETING FINAL DOCUMENT Rome, 19-24 march 2018   Introduction   The young person of today is met with a host of external and internal challenges and opportunities, many of which are specific to their individual contexts and some of which are shared across continent...
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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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ETHIOPIA: AMECEA holds a workshop in preparation for the synod of Bishops on the Youth

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The AMECEA Pastoral Department held its first workshop in preparation for the Synod of Bishops on the Youth, at the Catholic Secretariat for the Episcopal Conference of Ethiopia. The workshop which was held from 11th to 12th of August 2017, brought together 30 participants. 25 of the participants were representatives of the youth from various youth movements across the country, while the ...
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