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LISTEN, LISTEN, LISTEN

Fr Bernard Karerwa SJ “You are a priest and this is why I am going to tell you everything,” the woman told me, holding me with a penetrating gaze. Actually, I was not yet a priest then, but on my way to becoming one, as I explained to her when

WHY CAN’T I BE LIKE THEM?

Twenty-two-year-old Mainga Munsanje, a peer educator with the Chikuni Parish HBC, shares her experience of the JAP workshop: As a peer educator, the workshop has created a lot of confidence within me. The speakers were excellent and presented the materials with lots of motivation. After the workshop, I asked myself:

WORKING TOGETHER: JAP WORKSHOP IN ZAMBIA PARISH

A veteran team of trainers from the Harare-based Jesuit AIDS Project (JAP) recently conducted a workshop for young people in a rural parish in Zambia. The joint project was sparked by the efforts of AJAN to promote more mainstreaming of Jesuit AIDS programmes as well as coordination between the different

AJANews 111 – August-September 2012

The lead article of this issue of AJANews honours a Jesuit who has made an enormous contribution to the struggle against AIDS: Fr Ted Rogers SJ (pictured above), whose memoirs have just been published. In other articles, the AJAN Coordinator writes about the Christian Life Community (CLC) in Rwanda and

ORDINATIONS

Fr Paterne Mombé SJ, AJAN Coordinator, writes: At the end of August, I went to Kigali with an AJAN delegation for the ordination to the priesthood of Marcel Uwineza SJ. The team of Service Yezu Mwiza (SYM) was also represented at the ordination. Marcel spent two years as a regent

A RICH EXPERIENCE: AIDS MINISTRY OF CLC RWANDA

Fr Paterne Mombé SJ, AJAN Coordinator, writes about the unique approach to AIDS ministry of the Christian Life Community (CLC) in Rwanda. A recent visit to Kigali gave me the opportunity to get to know CLC Rwanda and to discover all it is doing in the struggle against HIV and

KENYA: PROMOTING HAPPY COUPLES

These days, one of the buzzwords of AIDS programmes in Africa is “mainstreaming” – addressing the causes and effects of AIDS in all areas of development work and, for the Church, in its pastoral, educational and other ministries. In a creative initiative that reflects this trend, parish programme Uzima is

DRC: FROM REFLECTION TO ACTION

Operating from Christ the King Parish in Kisangani, Parlons-SIDA is one of the only organisations in the area to offer comprehensive care to people with HIV and to organise systematic prevention activities. The outgoing coordinator, Fr Jean-Pierre Luzolo SJ shares some reflections: HIV began to take on importance in my

ZIMBABWE: JESUIT AIDS PIONEER PUBLISHES MEMOIRS

A British Jesuit who spent his life pioneering social change in Zimbabwe and beyond has published his memoirs. The book Ted Rogers: Jesuit, Social Pioneer and AIDS Activist in Zimbabwe was launched in August in South Africa and in September in Zimbabwe. Fr Ted spent five decades in Zimbabwe (formerly

BURUNDI: INTERRELIGIOUS WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHTS SAVE APPROACH TO PREVENTION

Ezéchiel Manirakiza SJ The crucial role that religions play in the struggle against HIV/AIDS in Burundi came to the fore during a training workshop recently organised for religious leaders in two provinces. The workshop sought to improve both the way local religious leaders play this role and their unity in

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