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For many years, Burnt Forest in Kenya’s Catholic Diocese of Eldoret lived up to its name. Every general election in the settlement located some 273 kilometres outside Kenya’s capital Nairobi came with tribal clashes, leaving a trail of killings and massive displacements.
About 100 pilgrims, eager to deepen their devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, left Kenya’s capital Nairobi on December 5, travelling some 273 kilometres to the Eucharistic Centre Burnt Forest, the resting place of Sr. Anna Ali of the Most Holy Eucharist in the Catholic Diocese of Eldoret.
The Catholic Diocese of Eldoret in Kenya has officially opened a Propaedeutic Seminary, bringing the number of Major Seminaries for the formation of Diocesan Priests in the East African nation to six.
The Church in Africa, which for many years was considered a missionary territory has evolved and is growing “stronger” compared to the Church in Europe that seems to have “weakened”, the representative of the Holy Father in Kenya has said.
The representative of the Holy Father in Kenya has called upon the newly Consecrated Bishop in the East African nation to keep alive the flame of the Holy Spirit, have it fanned through a life of communion with God in prayer and remain close to the people of God during his Episcopal Ministry.
The peace initiative that members of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) are to launch has an objective of facilitating the transformation of factors behind conflict and “curb the perennial violence” in the country’s North Rift region covered by six Catholic Dioceses.