Agnes Aineah

Agnes Aineah is a Kenyan journalist with a background in digital and newspaper reporting. She holds a Master of Arts in Digital Journalism from the Aga Khan University, Graduate School of Media and Communications and a Bachelor's Degree in Linguistics, Media and Communications from Kenya's Moi University. Agnes currently serves as a journalist for ACI Africa.

Catholic Charity Rallying for Funds to Construct Church in Northern Mozambique

Catholic Pontifical and charity foundation, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) United States, has sent out an appeal for...

Archbishop Stephen Ameyu of South Sudan's Juba Archdiocese. Credit: Aid to the church in Need (ACN)

Catholic Archbishop in South Sudan Says People’s Faith Growing amid Hardships

Even without proper Church structures in place, the number of people coming to places of worship in South Sudan has...

Traumatized Mozambicans Not Receiving Adequate Psychosocial Attention, IMBISA Official

Displaced people who have undergone traumatic experiences in the embattled Cabo Delgado Province in Northern Mozambique are not receiving enough...

A section of prison officers in charge of juvenile correctional facilities in Kenya pose for a photo session after completing a training by the African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN) at Kamiti Maximum Prison. Credit: African Jesuit AIDS Network

Jesuits Equip Kenyan Prison Officers with “life skills” to Help Young Offenders

Over 20 prison officers who oversee the custody of hundreds of youths at juvenile correctional institutions in Kenya have successfully...

Internationally Displaced People from northern Mozambique have found refuge in the Catholic Diocese of Nacala. Credit: Aid to the Church in Need United States

Catholic Charity Reports Widespread Attacks in Mozambique after Military Intervention

More villages in Northern Mozambique are experiencing insurgency as military intervention intensifies in the region, Catholic Pontifical and charity foundation,...

Christians in Mali Threatened by Imams’ “incessant verbal attacks”, Catholic Charity Says

A section of Imams who have been said to share the ideology of Jihadists in Mali are preventing Christians from...

A social worker at St. Joseph's Resource Center of Luanda Catholic Parish in Kenya's Catholic Diocese of Kakamega takes school children through a talk. Credit: St. Joseph's Resource Center

Rehabilitation Facility at Kenyan Catholic Parish to Rescue Youth from Drug Addiction

Cases of substance abuse in Luanda, a town in western Kenya have dominated the country’s media space on numerous occasions,...

Bishop-elect for South Sudan's Rumbek Diocese, Mons. Christian Carlassare. Credit: Comboni Missionaries

Bishop-elect for South Sudan’s Rumbek Diocese Envisions Revival of Trauma Healing Center

The Bishop-elect for South Sudan’s Rumbek Diocese who survived an assassination attempt in April is envisioning the revival of the trauma healing...

Children and young people living with disabilities at Orione Community Training Centre in Kenya's Catholic Diocese of Ngong Credit: Orione Community Training Centre

Catholic Special Needs School Faults Kenyan Media for Sidelining Persons with Disabilities

Persons living with disabilities (PWDs) are not receiving adequate media coverage in terms of highlighting issues that surround their lives,...

Chilean Doctors Establish Intervention Program at Catholic Special Needs School in Kenya

Many children who are brought to Orione Community Training Centre for rehabilitation come in when it is “a little bit...

The soldier who was killed by separatist fighters in Mbalangi, a locality in Mbonge Subdivision in the South West Region of Cameroon. Cameroonian military are said to have killed one civilian and injured three others in a retaliatory attack. Credit: Denis Hurley Peace Institute

Catholic Charity Questions Competence of Cameroonian Military Killing Unarmed Civilians

The November 19 suspected deliberate killing of a civilian and the injuring of others by Cameroonian military at a village...

Displaced people at Mukuru kwa Njenga, slum served by St. Mary's Catholic Church in Kenya's Archdiocese of Nairobi. Credit: Fr. John Munjuri

Kenyan Parish Counting Losses as Eight Small Christian Communities Vanish in Demolitions

The October 11 government demolitions at Nairobi’s Mukuru kwa Njenga slum, which is served by St. Mary’s Mukuru Parish of...

A ship that was used by TotalEnergies, a French company to evacuate their employees from a March attack in Palma, northern Mozambique. Credit: Denis Hurley Peace Institute

Catholic Charity Raises Questions about France’s Involvement in Mozambican Crisis

Is France using “development aid” to finance the intervention of Rwandan troops in Mozambique? This tops the list of questions...

Pope Francis greets Br. Jean-Pierre Schumacher, the last survivor of Tibhirine, on 31 March 2019 in Morocco. Credit: Vatican Media

Last Catholic Monk Who Survived Massacre at Algerian Monastery Dies Aged 97

Catholic monk Jean-Pierre Schumacher was left to tell of the ill-famed 1996 massacre at the Algerian monastery of Tibhirine in...

Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of Nigeria’s Abuja Archdiocese/ Credit: Courtesy Photo

Do Not Rig Your Way to Power, Nigerian Archbishop Cautions, Calls for Servant Leadership

The Archbishop of Nigeria’s Abuja Archdiocese has called on aspiring political leaders in the West African country to embrace servant...

Credit: Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Portugal

Mozambique’s First Catholic Seminary to Receive Facelift after Damage in Civil War

The Catholic Church in Mozambique has written to the Pontifical charity foundation, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Portugal,...

Catholic Film on Rwandan Genocide Reveals Mary’s Unheeded Warning ahead of Killings

The mention of the 1994 Rwandan genocide ignites memories of one of the world’s worst genocides in which an estimated...

Bishop Laurent Birfuoré Dabiré of Burkina Faso's Dori Diocese. Credit: Aid to the Church in Need (ACN)

Catholic Charity Raises Alarm Over Resurgent Christian Persecution in Burkina Faso

Christians who fled their homes in Burkina Faso have recounted how they lived in fear each day when they learnt...

Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama posing with some Priests after the 40th anniversary Mass. Credit: Archdiocese of Abuja

Catholic Archdiocese in Nigeria Celebrates Growth from Humble Beginning Under a Tree

The mammoth Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja as it is known today started humbly, with its small community of believers worshipping...

Catholic Charity Fundraising to Support Victims of Violence in Nigeria, Mozambique

Pontifical and charity foundation, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Italy, has approved two major projects that seek to...