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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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Theological Accompaniment of the Laity in Africa – From the Perspective of Small Christian Communities (SCCs)

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By Joseph G. Healey A Book Review of Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, (ed.), The Church We Want: African Catholics Look to Vatican III. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2016. Nairobi: Acton Publishers, 2016 by Léo Lushombo in the March, 2018 issue of the important American theological journal Theological Studies has this very challenging statement: If the model or paradigm of the future is that of Small ...
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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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SCCs Course Outline for Theology for the Laity Certificate Program – 2020

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SCCs Course Outline Theology for the Laity Certificate Program – 2020 Classroom 1: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Hekima University College (Jesuit School of Theology) Nairobi, Kenya The Small Christian Community Pastoral, Ecclesial Model of Church in Africa Today Week One (Tuesday, 7 January, 2020): Self-introduction of participants. Introduction to Small Christian Communities (SCCs). Situating SC...
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Small Christian Communities as Promoters of Social Justice

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By Joseph G. Healey, MM A Catholic lay woman in a Small Christian Community (referred to as SCC) in Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Nairobi Archdiocese, Kenya said: “In our traditional African family and society we women are second class. This is reinforced by patriarchal African customs. In our hierarchical, clerical Catholic Church we women feel at the bottom. But in our weekly SCCs as we...
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AMECEA: French translation of ‘Small Christian Community Training’ Handbook Nears Completion

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

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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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KENYA: AMECEA Launches Second Edition of Small Christian Community Training Handbook

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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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AMECEA: SCCs Interim Training Team hold a joint meeting with Representatives from Youth SCCs

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The reality of establishing Youth Small Christian Communities, (YSCCs), a forum that gives young people an opportunity to come together and explore their spiritual growth is slowly gaining momentum in AMECEA. Already well established at Kenyatta University by Catholic students who are currently pursuing their academic dreams at the institution; and also at Holy Cross Parish Dandora in the Archdioc...
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Comparison Between Two Small Christian Communities (SCCs) in Kenya and Tanzania

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By Ezekiel Mkwe, OFM Cap (Source SCCs website) Introduction Small Christian Communities (SCCs) in Africa is a result of a pastoral spirit of the then Zaire Episcopal Conference (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo or DRC) in 1961 which approved a plan aimed to promote Living Ecclesial Communities that make the Catholic Church more African and to bring it closer to the people.1 Here we not...
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