Ismael Matambura, Author at AJAN

AJAN Celebrates International Youth Day 2022

Since being endorsed by the General Assembly in 1999, 12 August has been marked as International Youth Day to acknowledge and amplify the importance of youth participation in current affairs. African Jesuits AIDS Network walks together with the youth towards enabling them to fulfill their potential. This year’s theme is

SAINT IGNATIUS CELEBRATION IN KISANGANI, AS MAISHA CENTER IN DRC MARKS 20 YEARS ANNIVERSARY

As everywhere in the world, where there is a presence of a certain Ignatian family or at least a Jesuit, the day of July 31 (on the feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola) was dedicated to the closing of the Ignatian Jubilee Year opened on May 21, 2021 In Kisangani,

Celebration of the Close of the IGNATIAN Year 2022

In our July Newsletter issue we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the wounding of St. Ignatius at the battle of Pamplona. The month of July is a special one for us AJAN as a Network. It marks the closure of the Ignatian Year: 500th anniversary of the conversion of St

Celebration of AJAN 20TH Anniversary at ABE Center in Burkina Faso

The celebration of AJAN 20th anniversary in Burkina Faso was held on Sunday July 24, 2022, at the headquarters of ABE. The event was marked by the attendance of about fifty people who were there to celebrate the achievements of AJAN and ABE over the 20 years. Present at the

JESUIT NOVICES AND NOVICES OF MERE LAURA MISSIONARIES IN THE DRC CONGO UNDERTAKE AHAPPY TRAINING OF TRAINERS

African Jesuit AIDS Network, (AJAN) undertook the AHAPPY training of trainers (AHAPPY TOT) for the Novices, in the Noviciat-Notre Dame de la Compagnie de Jésus at Kinkeso/Inkisi- located in the Catholic Diocese of Kisantu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1st to the 5th of August 2022. 2nd

SITUATION OF AJAN, 20 YEARS SUMMARY BY FR ISMAEL MATAMBURA, AJAN DIRECTOR

“Jesuit Apostolate of Care, Compassion and Protection” It is since June 21, 2002 that the African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN) was created by the Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar, then JESAM, directed at the time by Father Valerian Shirima, SJ. It is therefore in a context of serious health

MESSAGE OF CARDINAL M. CZERNY ON AJAN 20TH ANNIVERSARY

Having moved to Africa from America in 2002, Fr Michael Czerny, founder and director of the African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN), taught at Hekima College, at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi, collaborating with the Episcopal Conference of Kenya until 2010. 20 years since AJAN was founded, Fr Michael

AHAPPY PROGRAM TRAINING OF TRAINERS IN NYAHURURU WOMEN PRISON

“I am very happy to have attended this seminar. I see things from a very different perspective now. The things I have always known, sound new. I like the approach and I hope to benefit my congregation, including the prisoners from the lessons I take from the sessions.” This was

AJAN’s 20th Anniversary Celebration in Bangui, Central African Republic

After the vibrant celebration of the 20th anniversary of AJAN in Bujumbura, the Spirit of Pentecost breathed as far as Bangui, joy contaminated the Education and Listening Information Center of the Catholic University Center of Bangui (CIEE/CCU).” Indeed, this Sunday, June 12, 2022, the Peer Educators of the CIEE/CCU have

Special Message by the President of the Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar during AJAN 20TH Anniversary

In his message to the AJAN Community during AJAN 20TH anniversary that took place at Service Yesu Mwiza in Burundi, 5th June 2022.The President of the Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar (JCAM) Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator SJ said this, “Twenty years is a long time in the life of a person or an