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Strive to Live in Harmony with Each Other, Kenyan Prelate at Ordination
A Kenyan Archbishop has urged candidates he was about to ordain to always strive to live in peace and harmony with each other, noting that it is human for members of the Clergy living in a rectory to sometimes disagree.
Kenyan Dioceses Commence Countrywide Training to Combat Gender-Based Violence
Dioceses in Kenya have embarked on a series of trainings for pastoral agents to address the rising incidences of Gender-based Violence (GBV) in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic.
Kenya’s President Meets Pope Francis in Historic Visit, “bilateral relations highlighted”
Kenya’s President, Uhuru Kenyatta met Pope Francis on Friday, November 6 at the Vatican, making him the first Head of State of the East African nation to pay the Holy Father a courtesy visit at the Holy See, the headquarters of the Catholic Church.
Bishops in Kenya Urge Government to Support UN Treaty on Transnational Corporations
Catholic Bishops in Kenya have called on the government to support the second revised draft of the UN Treaty on Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and Human Rights, which seeks to prevent the occurrence of human rights abuses in the context of business activities.
International Catholic Charity Boosts Training of Seminarians at Vibrant Diocese in Kenya
Kenya’s Eldoret Diocese has been selected for funding by the Pontifical Charity organization, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) in a project that will see some 81 Seminarians get financial support to go through their formation to the Priesthood.
Why Catholics at a Kenyan Parish Avoided Holy Communion for Five Years
It took Fr. James Kinoti five years to get the first Catholics at St. Catherine of Alexandria Tarasaa Parish of Kenya’s Catholic Diocese of Malindi to partake of Holy Communion during Eucharistic celebrations at a particular outstation where the faithful had avoided the Sacrament for years.
Late Italian-born Bishop in Kenya Mourned as “devout shepherd, of impeccable character”
The late Bishop Ambrogio Ravasi who served as the second Bishop of Kenya’s Marsabit Diocese until his retirement in November 2006 is being remembered as a “devout shepherd” and “a man of impeccable character and heroic virtues.”
Do Not Introduce Your Own “fashion” to the Church: Kenyan Prelate at Ordination
The multi-national candidates for Priestly and Diaconate Ordination at a Parish of Kenya’s Archdiocese of Nairobi over the weekend were cautioned against introducing their own ways of life in the Church as they prepare to begin carrying out their ministry as ordained men of God.
Late Missionary, Scholar in Kenya Leaves Lasting Legacy in New Book on Freedom, Trinity
Before he died in May last year aged 81, Italian-born Fr. Nicholas Fogliacco had accumulated enough content that would be put together to make one of the most treasured books that seeks to promote the mission of evangelization in Africa.
Clergy, Religious in Kenya Challenged to Leave Comfort Zones, to Venture into Peripheries
A majority of members of the Clergy and Religious Orders in Kenya are found in the country’s capital, Nairobi that offers better living standards, a Catholic Cleric ministering in the country has observed and called on Religious men and women not to shy away from missions characterized with hardships.
Two African Sisters Selected for Catholic Nuns’ Pilot Doctoral Scholarship Program
Two African Sisters, one from Kenya and the other from South Sudan, have been selected to pilot a doctoral scholarship program, an initiative of the African Sisters Education Collaborative (ASEC), which facilitates access to education for women religious in Africa, the world’s second largest continent.
“Collaborate with shared purpose, to do the work of Christ,” Pastoral Agents in Kenya Told
The need for pastoral agents to collaborate in their mission of evangelization has been emphasized at the start of a three-day virtual workshop that is bringing together Clerics and religious men and women involved in pastoral animation in Kenya.
“Mission, an enterprise we must do in togetherness”: Kenyan Cleric Ahead of Mission Sunday
The need to cultivate fraternal collaboration in the ministry of evangelization has been emphasized on the eve of World Mission Sunday, an annual event when Catholics across the globe renew their commitment to their missionary vocation and implore God’s graces for the missions worldwide.
Fostering Collaboration among Plans for New Kenya’s Male Religious Superiors Chair
Fostering collaboration with other Church entities in Kenya in view of promoting evangelization in the East African nation is one of the objectives of the newly elected Chairman of the Religious Superiors’ Conference of Kenya (RSCK), the forum that brings together representatives of the male Religious Orders and Societies of Apostolic Life in Kenya.
Kenya’s Religious Leaders Call for National Dialogue to “defuse tension in the country"
Religious leaders in Kenya have called for an inclusive national dialogue that would involve “all Kenyans” in view of defusing tensions that have characterized the political landscape in the East African nation.
Rite of Holy Mass in Kenyan Sign Language Translated, Ready for Use Countrywide
The rite of the Holy Mass has been translated into a sign language that can be used across Kenya, an official involved in the translation has said.
Experts Call for Africa’s Change of Tact in Realizing “Fratelli Tutti” Proposals
In Africa, efforts to attain economic freedom are not working since they have only widened the gap between a few rich individuals and the majority poor, religious experts who met to discuss Pope Francis’ new Encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, have said.
Catholic Leaders in Africa Join Global Calls to Cancel Developing Countries’ Debts
Catholic leaders in Africa have joined the more than 140 other Christian groups’ representatives from across the world who are calling on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to cancel developing nations’ debts amid COVID-19 challenges.
SIGNIS Africa Announces Continental Workshop for Young Catholic Journalists
Aspiring citizen journalists in all African countries are invited to apply for a video journalism workshop at SIGNIS-Africa, an official at the continental branch of the global Catholic Association for Communication has said.
Pray to “become signs of hope, Spirit-filled evangelizers,” Nuncio in Kenya to Consecrated
Consecrated persons in Kenya have been encouraged to cultivate and nurture hope, seeking God’s grace to realize their mission of being “signs of hope, Spirit-filled evangelizers” among the people of God amid life’s challenges.
