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Agnes Aineah

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.

Sr. Rose Catherine Wakibiru, Administrator of Limuru Cheshire Home, a charity organization for girls living with disabilities with young girls living with disabilities outside their home / Sr. Rose Catherine Wakibiru

Meet Kenyan Nun Behind Thriving Disability Program for Girls amid COVID-19 Restrictions

At a one-roomed house in Satellite, an informal settlement located outside Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi, a 23-year-old girl living with...

Sr. Winnie Mutuku of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent De Paul, founder of Upendo Street Children in Kenya's Catholic Diocese of Kitale. She is overseeing the feeding of street boys amid COVID-19 restrictions / Upendo Street Children (USC)

Kenyan Nun Braving Harsh COVID-19 Times to Sustain Street Feeding Program

The streets of Kitale, a town located in the western part of Kenya have been unusually quiet at night from...

Fr. Henryk Sawarski, a missionary in Madagascar's Diocese of Port-Bergé Diocese where he is engaged in prison apostolate / Aid to the Church in Need (ACN)

A Cleric’s Kindness Drawing Prisoners in Madagascar towards Spiritual Conversion

Tall prison walls and heavy barbed wire surround the prison of Port-Bergé in the Diocese of Port-Bergé located in the...

Fr. Joseph Healey, popularly known as Mwanajumuiya Padri Joseph has specialised in Small Christian Communities through research and practice.

Maryknoll Cleric Growing Online Small Christian Communities amid Kenya’s COVID-19 Measures

Saturdays are usually busy days for Ben Wanjala, the moderator of St. Kizito Small Christian Community (SCC) at St. Austin’s...

Names of the parishioners of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in Swaziland's Manzini Diocese pinned on benches. / Bishop Jose Luis Ponce de Leon

What a Cleric in Swaziland Has Done to Keep Faithful Engaged During COVID-19

All was well at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Parish in the Diocese of Manzini in the Southern Africa nation...

Funeral Mass of Late Archbishop Emeritus Raphael Ndingi Mwana a’Nzeki  at Holy Family Basilica in Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi, Tuesday, April 7, 2020.

Celebrated Kenyan Prelate Accorded Low-Key Burial, President Promises Future Mourning Day

About 100 mourners who wore white and blue face masks as a measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19 gathered...

Bishop John MacWilliams of Algeria's Laghouat Diocese

Not Much Change for Algeria’s Church amid COVID-19

In a country where the faithful go for months without celebrating Holy Mass due to a shortage of Priests, the...

Street children that are part of the Nairobi-based Alfajiri Street Kids Art pose for a photo with the founder of the facility, Australian-born Lenore Boyd (at the back) / Joost Bastmeijer for Beyond the Orphanage

Meet Catholic Lay Missionary Igniting Hope in Kenya’s Street Families amid COVID-19

When news about COVID-19 broke out, plunging the world into action as governments across the world put into place safety...

Image showing an open sewer running behind numerous corrugated houses at Mukuru kwa Njenga in Nairobi, Kenya. / courtesy

Slum Dwellers at a Nairobi Parish Living One Day at a Time amid COVID-19 Measures

It is past noon on Tuesday, March 31 but Jane Mutiso, who has been ailing for the past six years...

Sr. Teresa Okure, a member of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus (SHCJ), speaks on the theme of the Golden Jubilee of SECAM in the light of the joyful celebrations of 50 years of existence, Uganda, 2019. / ACI Africa

“Closure of churches God’s call to return to our roots to be church,” African Nun Reflects

An African nun who is a scripture scholar has, after interacting with people “devastated” by the reality of locked up...

Sr. Rosemary Nyirumbe of the Religious Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, nominee for the 2020 Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize.

Ugandan Nun Eyes Coveted Global Teacher Prize for Transforming Ex-Rebels’ Lives

Some day in 1986 when the Lord’s Resistance Army, an infamous rebel group that terrorized people in the northern parts...

Late Sr. Henrietta Alokha,Ssh, Principal of Nigeria's Bethlehem Girls College who died while rescuing students after gas explosion in Abule Ado, Lagos, Monday, March 16, 2020.

Nigerians Eulogize Nun Who Died Saving Others in Sunday Lagos Inferno

The morning of Sunday, March 15 is one that residents of Nigeria’s Abule Ado town in the outskirts of the...

Kenya’s largest telecommunications provider, Safaricom, the company that operates M-pesa – the most popular mobile phone-based money transfer, financing and microfinancing service in Kenya.

Kenya’s Mobile Money Provider Revises Transaction Costs, Limits, to Tame COVID-19

With two more cases of COVID-19 confirmed in the East African nation of Kenya, bringing to three the number of...

Kenyan-born Spiritan Fr. John Munjuri, Parish Priest of St. Mary's Mukuru Parish, Archdiocese of Nairobi, who has facilitated a feeding program on Fridays under the auspices of St. Vincent de Paul Group / St. Mary's Mukuru Parish, Nairobi Archdiocese

Oldest Missionary Congregation in Kenya Igniting Hope Among Poor Slum Dwellers

The marram road that leads to St. Mary’s Catholic Parish in Mukuru Kwa Njenga, a sprawling informal settlement located on...

The Secretary of the Holy See Delegation to the U.N. Geneva, Msgr. Mauro Cionini / Ignatius Takura Mugwagwa/EWTN Deutschland

Vatican Ready for “constructive, respectful dialogue” with Eritrean Government to End Woes

Delegates of the Holy See have, during the recent 43rd Session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations...

Irene Kyamummi, 2020 Harambee Prize winner in a past interview in Kampala, Uganda. / Harambee Africa International

Ugandan Medic Clinches Prestigious 2020 Award of a Rome-based Institution

Irene Kyamummi, a Ugandan doctor who has had a career stint in neighboring Kenya is the winner of “the XI...

Kenya Military Principal Chaplain and Apostolic Administrator, Msgr. Colonel Benjamin Maswili at an official function in Kenya / Kenya Defense Forces

Inside the Life of a Kenyan Cleric Serving in the Military

Earlier this year, as Kenyans bade farewell to the country’s longest serving president, the late former President Daniel Moi, one...

Members of one of the support groups at Upendo Village in Naivasha, Kenya, in the Catholic Diocese of Nakuru, sharing a meal / Assumption Sisters of Nairobi, Upendo Village

I Owe Catholic Nuns, Entire Upendo Village My Life, Testimony by Kenyan Man Born with HIV

Sr. Florence Muia, a member of the Assumption Sisters of Nairobi (ASN), recalls a day, in 2004, when she sat...

CJPC Chairman (R) unveils the banner for the 2020 Lenten Campaign / ACI Africa

Repent about Stolen Public Resources, Bishops in Kenya Appeal at Lenten Campaign Launch

As the war against corruption in Kenya intensifies following the launch of a six-month country-wide campaign against graft in October 2019, Catholic...

Kenya-based Catholic University Initiates a Response to Papal Call for Child Safeguarding

In an effort to respond to Pope Francis’ call that all local churches across the globe set working systems to...