We, the delegates of the Sixth Annual School of Theology of the African Institute for Contemporary Mission and Research (AICMAR) Butere, Kenya, met in Chadwick Library to grapple with issues arising from our theme: 'The Gospel and the Contemporary Challenges of African Cultural Heritage'
The Rt Revd William Waqo, Provincial Secretary of the Anglican Church of Kenya and Personal Assistant to Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi, died in a plane crash yesterday Monday 10th April 2006 while on a peace mission to the north-eastern part of the country. He was also an Assistant Bishop of Kirinyaga Diocese.
The Anglican Church of Kenya has made an appeal to all its Christians and friends to make donations towards alleviating the famine affecting nearly four million people in several parts of the country.
Scores of people have been killed and thousands made homeless in Kenya over the last week after heavier than usual seasonal rains devastated much of the country.
Kibera slum is home to one million Kenyans on the outskirts of Nairobi. There are no legal water or electricity supplies, the sewers run through the middle of the mud “streets”, and when it rains, the corrugated iron shacks – single rooms that sometimes house more than ten people – flood with garbage and human excrement. Every few months, fires destroy large numbers of these shacks, killing and injuring their inhabitants. “This is an illegal settlement, it doesn’t exist,” said the Revd Richard W Mayabi, the priest of St Jerome’s Anglican Church in Kibera to the delegates of the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) Mission and Evangelism Conference last week. “Because Kibera doesn’t exist, its people also don’t exist.”
The ninth session of the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) council meeting ended over the weekend in Nairobi with a strong call for unity in the Anglican Church.
Archbishop Akinola, who is the Primate of Nigeria, was elected unanimously during the ninth session of the council in Nairobi last week.
The ninth session of the Council of the Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) council meeting will be held in Nairobi from 24 - 26 September.
The Council of the Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) will showcase its HIV/AIDS work in Africa at the forthcoming historic International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) to be held in Nairobi from next week.
The controversy in the worldwide Anglican Communion over homosexuality has led to a call for Kenya's Methodist, Presbyterian and Anglican churches to merge to better resist "Western" influences.
A conference on violence in the family organised by the International Anglican Family Network (IAFN) opened in Nairobi, Kenya, today.
The Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) has been given an opportunity to present a paper at the historic International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) which will run from 21-26 September.
One of the most hotly debated issues in Africa today is homosexuality. Its exposure on the continent has excited deep and often extreme reactions. Some observers dismiss the habit as a western culture, yet it is spreading through the continent like a wild bush fire.
At a high level meeting held at the Limuru Conference Centre on Tuesday and attended by all the 29 Bishops and top Government officials, Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi expressed satisfaction at the commitment and goodwill that the new Government was showing in working with the Church.
Retired Anglican Archbishop in Kenya, the Rt Revd David Gitari, recently called upon Christians to embrace a culture of peacemaking and conflict resolution, saying the two were fast becoming "central in the pastoral life of the Church, due to their impact on the life of the faithful."
On 27 December 2002, the General Election in Kenya and subsequent transfer of power was an enormous success, thanks to millions of Christians who prayed for a peaceful transition.
The Archbishop of Kenya, the Most Revd Benjamin Mwanzia Nzimbi, welcomed communicators from the Council of the Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) at an official opening yesterday in Nairobi, Kenya. It is the first time in 11 years that an Anglican Provincial Communicators Workshop has taken place in Africa.
The new Anglican Archbishop of Kenya, Benjamin Mwanzia Nzimbi, demonstrated his clear vision and determination during his enthronement on 22 September. Speaking of the vision and mission of the church he expressed how it is the job of its leaders to see it strengthened and transformed.
The fourth Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Kenya, Benjamin Mwanzia Nzimbi, was enthroned on Sunday 22 September, at a colourful ceremony at the All Saints' Cathedral in Nairobi. Thousands of Anglicans and representatives of other religious groups attended the enthronement service, which was also attended by many political leaders.
Tragedy returned to haunt the Anglican Church of Kenya on 24 August when two women were injured in a road accident just days after five of their colleagues were killed in a similar incident.
We have concluded our second meeting of the AIDS Board of the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa (CAPA). We have re-committed ourselves to the vision "of a Generation without AIDS", stated this time last year at the first All Africa Anglican Conference on HIV/AIDS at Boksburg, South Africa.
The Rt Revd Benjamin Paul Mwanzia has been elected as the new Primate of Anglican Church of Kenya.
The National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) is concerned about the deteriorating security in the East African country, which it fears, could peak ahead of the General Election later this year.
An African phase of international conversations between Anglicans and Baptists was held in Nairobi, Kenya from 24-26 January 2001. This regional meeting follows two previous phases held in Norwich (for Europe) in 2000 and Yangon (for Asia/Pacific) in 2001. Participants came, representing their respective Churches in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe and joined the members of the "continuation committee" which is conducting these regional gatherings on behalf of the Baptist World Alliance and the Anglican Communion.
Following the terrorist bomb attack on New York and Washington D.C on 11th September 2001, and the subsequent destruction of tens of thousands of lives.
I was advised to cancel my weekend engagements in America and leave Nairobi for USA tomorrow evening if the situation stabilises. Instead of celebrating a birthday in New York, I have been destined to mourn with you over the shocking events which took place on Tuesday the 11th of September in New York and Washington DC.
Yesterday Thursday 26th April 2001 at about noon Bishop Samuel Musabyimana was arrested at his house in Nairobi by unknown people.
Women from the various Kenyan church denominations gathered at St. Paul's United Theological College in Limuru, Kenya, to share their experiences in ministry and urged the church to find measures to improve poor women and structures that empower and disempower them.
Fighting that erupted in Nairobi last week in which an Anglican Archbishop was slightly hurt, was between Muslims and hawkers, dispelling earlier reports that the fight was between Muslim and Christian youths. The fighting began when Muslim teenagers pulled down wooden kiosks which they said had been erected too close to a mosque in the South B housing estate on the south side of the capital. The kiosk vendors torched a mosque during the fighting.
Muslim and Christian youths fought running battles in Nairobi on Friday (1 December) as a church was burned down and dozens of people, including Kenya's Anglican archbishop, were injured. The fighting began on Thursday when Muslim teenagers pulled down wooden kiosks which they said had been erected too close to a mosque in the South B housing estate on the south side of the capital.
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