Our reflection for Palm Sunday is written by Sr Mary Owens I.B.V.M., director of Nyumbani, which includes Kenya’s first and largest facility for HIV-positive orphans, a home-based care program and Nyumbani Village. In the liturgical celebration of Palm Sunday, we come face to face with contradiction in Jesus’ experience as
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La victoire définitive c’est la victoire de l’amour
Notre réflexion pour la cinquième semaine du Carême (6 – 12 avril) est écrite par le Père Elphège Quenum SJ qui dirige le Centre de Recherche, d’Étude et de Créativité à Cotonou, Benin. « Moi je suis la résurrection et la vie. Celui qui croit en moi, même s’il meurt,
The definitive victory of love
Our reflection for the fifth week of Lent, 6 – 12 April, is written by Fr Elphège Quenum SJ, who runs the Jesuit Centre for Research, Studies and Creativity (CREC) in Cotonou, Benin. “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will
Burundi: SYM helping flood victims
2 April 2014 – The Service Yezu Mwiza (SYM) in Bujumbura is helping some of its beneficiaries who lost everything when torrential rains swept away their belongings. The rains lashed suburbs of Bujumbura on the night between 9 and 10 February… Read more
Cameroonian Jesuit writes book about AIDS in Africa
2 April 2-14 – Harris Cleaver Tombi SJ has written a book in French about AIDS in Africa. The book, Prévenir le VIH/Sida en Afrique subsaharienne – Pour un engagement responsable du malade (Preventing HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa – towards a responsible commitment of people with HIV) has been published
Togo: 100 youth attend peer education workshop
2 April 2014 – Nearly 100 teenagers have attended a four-day workshop in peer education organised by the Centre Espérance Loyola (CEL – Loyola Hope Centre) in Lomé. The young people, aged between 14 and 19 years, were chosen from vocational and high schools in the neighbourhoods of Agoè-Nord and
West Africa: Jesuits plan future of AIDS ministry
2 April 2014 – Jesuits from West Africa analysing the AIDS ministry of their province underlined capacity-building and enhancing knowledge about HIV as main elements of their future plans. The AIDS committee of the Jesuit West African Province (AOC) met in late January in Cotonou, Benin, to undertake a painstaking
Burkina Faso: New centre for AIDS association
2 April 2014 – There were a dozen or so people, mostly women and children, crammed into the rundown room in Pissy, a neighbourhood of Ouagadougou. They were in a poor state; the room didn’t even have a door or windows. Their families had rejected them because they had HIV.
L’honnêteté et la reconnaissance
Notre réflexion pour la quatrième semaine du Carême (30 mars) est écrite par le père Ted Rogers SJ. Le Père Ted est un Jésuite britannique qui a passé des décennies à témoigner du changement social au Zimbabwe. Parmi ses nombreuses réalisations est sa réponse visionnaire à la crise du SIDA
Honesty and acknowledgment
Our reflection for the fourth week of Lent (30 March – 5 April) is written by Fr Ted Rogers SJ. Fr Ted is a British Jesuit who spent decades pioneering social change in Zimbabwe. Among his many achievements is his visionary response to the AIDS crisis in this country. He
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