Between May and July 2013, Kenyan Jesuit Augostine Ekeno SJ visited South Kivu in eastern Congo to conduct research about sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), on behalf of AJAN, the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Eastern Africa and the Hekima Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations in Nairobi. The aim
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Kenya: Countering mindless terror with love
Pauline Wanjau, AHAPPY program manager, AJAN The spirit of the Good Samaritan came alive in the self-sacrificial love shown by people from all walks of life in the wake of the mindless terror attack that struck Kenyans on 21 September. This was the day terrorists stormed Westgate, a busy upscale
Zambia: The changing role of HBC caregivers
Danielle Vella The home-based care (HBC) centre of Chikuni parish in southern Zambia is a hive of activity. In this remote rural area, thriving enterprises are lined up in the neat compound: a restaurant, a bakery, a shop, a tailoring workshop, a poultry run, a vegetable garden and machines for
What the Camino has taught me…
30 September 2013 – Kevin Kelly SJ raised 6,000 euro for AJAN walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela earlier this year… Read more
Burundi: Changing perspective
30 September 2013 – When Jacques Ngimbous SJ went to do pastoral fieldwork at the Service Yezu Mwiza (SYM) in Bujumbura, Burundi, and met men and women living with HIV, he let go of some mistaken impressions… Read more
Kenya: Keeping track of the reality of AIDS
30 September 2013 – The Church affirms the humanity of people with HIV by offering them care and support and, above all, a place where they do not feel judged… Read more
Kenya: Jesuits condemn Westgate attack
30 September 2013 – The Jesuit Eastern Africa Province has condemned the terror attack on Westgate Mall in Nairobi that left 67 people dead and scores of others injured… Read more
AJANews 122 – September 2013
Kenya: Keeping track of the reality of AIDS –The Church affirms the humanity of people with HIV by offering them care and support and, above all, a place where they do not feel judged. This is what Florence Anam believes; Florence is a young Kenyan woman who is HIV-positive and
What the Camino has taught me…
Kevin Kelly SJ raised 6,000 euro for AJAN walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela earlier this year. He writes about his experience of this unique pilgrimage. The long and winding road that leads to your door will never disappear. I’ve seen that road before, it always leads me here.
Burundi: Changing perspective
In summer, Jacques Ngimbous SJ left Hekima College of Theology in Nairobi to do pastoral fieldwork at the Service Yezu Mwiza (SYM) in Bujumbura. SYM is a project of the Jesuit Region of Rwanda-Burundi that is dedicated to the care and support of people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS and
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