Dennis Owuoche, Author at AJAN

AJANews 154 – April 2017

AHAPPY goes from strength to strength AHAPPY: AJAN launches updated training manual Togo: My life is back on track AJAN Lenten reflections

The full series of AJAN Lenten reflections, starting from Ash Wednesday and culminating in Easter Sunday, is listed below: 2018 Ash Wednesday Reflection for the first Sunday of Lent 2nd Sunday of Lent 3rd Sunday of Lent 4th Sunday of Lent 5th Sunday of Lent Palm Sunday Holy Thursday Good

AJAN Lenten reflections

The full series of AJAN Lenten reflections, starting from Ash Wednesday and culminating in Easter Sunday, is listed below: Christ, Life and Light in the heart of the world “It is accomplished” Your king is coming to you, humble… Life in the spirit Live as children of the light It

AHAPPY: AJAN launches updated training manual

On 24 March, AJAN launched its updated AHAPPY manual during an event held at the Paulines Communication Centre in Westlands, Nairobi. Fr Elphege Quenum SJ, the Director of AJAN, said that the manual, which is published by Paulines Publications, intends to lead young people to an AIDS-free generation, empowering them

AHAPPY goes from strength to strength

AJAN has taken significant steps ahead in the rollout of its youth development program AHAPPY with the launch of a new manual and a “training of trainers” workshop in Nairobi. AHAPPY is a tailor-made program for Catholic educational institutions that draws on Ignatian values, spirituality and pedagogy to reach out

Togo: My life is back on track

My name is Ama Kidiba. I am 44, HIV-positive and divorced, and I have a family of three children: two girls and a boy. The first two years after I discovered that I was HIV-positive were tumultuous times… the shock, the abandonment by my husband, the insults and the total

Christ, Life and Light in the heart of the world

Our reflection for Easter Sunday, Christ, Life and Light in the heart of the world, is written by Fr Elphège Quenum SJ, Director of the African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN). Life, Light, and Salvation: these are the key words of the paschal celebration, which brings to a close the season of Lent that has

“It is accomplished”

Our reflection for Good Friday is written by Masy Razafindradama from the Centre Social Arrupe in Madagascar. On Good Friday, we reach the culmination of our progress towards Easter. After a long journey of 40 days of fasting, abstinence and prayer, we witness the passion of Jesus Christ, our Saviour.

Your king is coming to you, humble…

For Palm Sunday, our reflection is written by Br Alain Ragneneau, who lives in Kangemi, a poor neighbourhood outside Nairobi, Kenya, and who worked for many years with the parish AIDS programme there. Today Jesus is entering Jerusalem accompanying by rejoicing crowds. This beautiful Gospel passage (Mt 21; 1- 11)

Life in the spirit

For the fifth week of Lent, our reflection is written by Fr Harris Cleaver Tombi SJ, project manager at the Good Samaritan University Hospital in Walia, N’Djaména, Chad. (SEE BELOW FOR FRENCH VERSION) We are now in the fifth Sunday of Lent. Easter is looming on the horizon, and our