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Thanksgiving Mass at the University of Nairobi (UoN) Grounds following the canonization of Blessed Joseph Allamano. Credit: Archdiocese of Nairobi (ADN)

A Jaguar Attack, a Kenyan Nun, and the Miracle that Led to Canonization of Consolata Missionaries’ Founder, Allamano

Nov 12, 2024

All quiet at Catrimatini mission dispensary in the heart of the Northwestern Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, where Sr. Felicita Muthoni Nyaga served, was disrupted when a Jaguar attacked the village, mauling one man and leaving him with no possibility of recovering. In fact, when Sr. Felicita first saw Sorino Yanomami, he was lying in a pool of blood, his skull gaping and a large part of his brain strewn on the ground.

Archbishop Hubertus van Megen. Credit: Archdiocese of Nairobi (ADN)

Yes to Missionary Life Without Leaving Home: Nuncio in Kenya on Lessons from Allamano, Consolata Missionaries Founder

Nov 11, 2024

The life of St. Joseph  Allamano, who never stepped outside his native country Italy owing to ill health but “prepared the groundwork” for great missionary work across the world, teaches that it is possible to be a missionary without having to leave one’s native country, the representative of the Holy Father in Kenya has said.

“Simple yet sacred”: Pilgrims on Canonization Mass of Founder Whose Members Were First Commissioned to Kenya

Oct 20, 2024

While the Canonization Mass of Blessed Joseph Allamano alongside 13 others took place in “simplicity”, the celebration had a deep “spiritual significance”, pilgrims at the Sunday, October 20 event have said. 

IMC Superior General, Fr. James Bhola Lengarin. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez

Consolata Missionaries Founder Canonization Time to Sing “Magnificat”: Kenyan-born Superior General, 1,300 to Witness

Oct 19, 2024

The joy that the Blessed Virgin Mary expressed after exchanging greetings with Elizabeth in her song of the Magnificat is inspiring members of the Institute of the Consolata Missionaries (IMC) and the Consolata Missionary Sisters (MC) at the canonization of their founder, Blessed Joseph Allamano.

Sr. Joan Agnes Matimu/Blessed Joseph Allamano. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/Vatican Media

Fr. Allamano’s Total Reliance on Missionaries of His Institute Confirmation “mission is not ours”: Kenyan Consolata Nun

Oct 19, 2024

The total reliance of the founder of the Institute of the Consolata Missionaries (IMC) and the Consolata Missionary Sisters (MC) on the Priests, women and men Religious and Laity he formed in Italy to go to evangelize elsewhere reinforces the notion that the mission and the work of evangelization belongs to the Lord.

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“We’ve been looking forward”: Consolata Bishop in Africa Retraces Journey to Institute ahead of Founder’s Canonization

Oct 18, 2024

The Canonization of Blessed Joseph Allamano is an occasion that members of the two Institutes he founded have been looking forward to for close to a century, Bishop José Luís Gerardo Ponce de León of the Catholic Diocese of Manzini in the Kingdom of Eswatini has said. 

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Be Guided by “that little word called conscience”: Attorney to Graduates at Nairobi-based Catholic Philosophy Institute

May 18, 2024

The conscience plays a critical role in human life, Fred Ngatia, a Kenyan criminal justice attorney and Senior Counsel has told the latest graduates from Consolata Institute of Philosophy (CIP), the Nairobi-based learning institution under the auspices of the Institute of Consolata Missionaries (IMC).

Oldest Consolata Missionary Eulogized in Kenya as Priest Who “built his life in Eucharist”, Loved “without segregation”

Apr 23, 2024

Fr. Antonio Bianchi, reportedly the oldest member of the Institute of Consolata Missionaries (IMC), who “passed away in his sleep” at the Consolata Regional House in Westlands in the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi (ADN) has been remembered as a Priest with passion for the Eucharist and love for “people without segregation”.

A portrait of Fr. Josiah Asa K’Okal during the requiem Mass at Divine Shepherd Cathedral of Tucupita Apostolic Vicariate in Venezuela. Credit: Archdiocese of Caracas via Seed Consolata

Sombre Mood as Kenyan Catholic Priest Who Died in Venezuela is Laid to Rest

Jan 9, 2024

A sombre mood engulfed Divine Shepherd Cathedral of Tucupita Apostolic Vicariate in Venezuela where the requiem Mass of Fr. Josiah Asa K’Okal was held on Monday, January 8 before the Kenyan-born member of the Institute of Consolata Missionaries (IMC) who is said to have died in unclear circumstances was laid to rest.

Our Lady of Assumption Cathedral in Swaziland.

Bishop in Swaziland Suspends Public Liturgies amid Upsurge in COVID-19 Reported Cases

Jan 10, 2021

The Bishop of Manzini, the lone Catholic Diocese in Swaziland has resuspended the celebration of public Liturgies in line with the government’s ban on all forms of gatherings following an increase in reported cases of COVID-19.

The Ethiopian flag. / lkpro/Shutterstock.

Consolata Missionaries in Africa Express Solidarity with Church in Ethiopia amid Crisis

Dec 18, 2020

Members of the Consolata Missionaries ministering in Africa have expressed their solidarity with the people of God in Ethiopia amid the ongoing crisis in the Horn of Africa nation’s Tigray region.

Bishop Virgilio Pante, IMC with the graduates of St. John Paul II Sabbatical Program. / ACI Africa

Kenyan Sabbatical Program Lauded for “ongoing transformation” of Clergy, Religious

Dec 8, 2020

A sabbatical program undertaken at a Kenyan Diocese has been lauded for facilitating the “transformation” of members of the Clergy and women Religious who participate in the four-month renewal course.

From left to right, Seminarians José Jaime Changa Meque, Stivini Elias and Rachide Lazaro Zacarias.

Grim Future for Mozambique’s Seminarians as Bishops Cancel 2020 Academic Year

Sep 28, 2020

When Bishops in Mozambique announced the cancellation of the academic year 2020 in all Major Seminaries countrywide, sending seminarians in all the 12 Dioceses of the country back home, Stivini Elias, a third-year philosophy student in St Charles Lwanga Seminary in Nampula in Mozambique thought fast on how best he was going to use his time away from the Seminary.

Late Bishop Emeritus Silas Silvius Njiru of Kenya's Meru Diocese. He succumbed to COVID-19 on Tuesday, April 28 in Italy, aged 91.

Retired Kenyan Bishop, Second African Prelate to Succumb to COVID-19

Apr 28, 2020

The Bishop Emeritus of Kenya’s Meru Diocese, Bishop Silas Silvius Njiru succumbed to COVID-19 in the early hours of Tuesday, April 28 in Italy where he has been residing. He was 91.