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SIERRA LEONE: UN Hails Country’s Post Conflict Recovery
FREETOWN, March 07, 2014 (CISA) -The UN Secretary-General has hailed Sierra Leone because of the great strides it has made away from civil war towards peace, stability and long-term development. “Sierra Leone represents one of the world’s most successful cases of post-conflict recovery, peacekeeping and peace building,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at a press conference alongside Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma in Freetown on Wednesday 05. Ban Ki-moon was speaking during the launch of a new phase that would see the United Nations transition from its political mission in Sierra Leone to a development focused mission. According to the…
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CAR: UN Considers Sending More Troops to Troubled Nation
BANGUI, March 07, 2014 (CISA) -UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has recommended the deployment of more peacekeeping personnel to the Central African Republic (CAR) in a report to the members of United Nations Security Council. The report released early in the week proposed sending nearly 12,000 soldiers, plus 1,820 police officers and eventually civilian specialists to rebuild state institutions, from city halls to courts following renewed calls from the nation’s leadership to help avert a “humanitarian disaster”. Ban Ki-moon said the UN needed to send in personnel “with the full range of capacities required to address the deep-rooted nature of…
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UGANDA: Bishops Reviewing Anti-gay law, Says Church Official
KAMPALA, March 07, 2014 (CISA) -Uganda’s Catholic bishops have begun reviewing a text of the country’s new anti-gay law in order to come up with “an educated” response, a senior church official has said. “We want to do a good, educated study of it, so we can make an educated judgment,” said Msgr John Baptist Kauta, Secretary-General of the Uganda Episcopal Conference. Msgr Kauta, who spoke to Catholic News Service (CNS) by phone March 05, more than week after the controversial bill became law, said the bishops had just finished a retreat and had only gotten an official text of…
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KENYA: UN Commends State for Championing Women Rights
NAIROBI, March 07, 2014 (CISA) – United Nations Under-Secretary –General and Director- General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) Ms Sahle-Work Zewde has commended the Kenya government for its active role in championing of women’s rights. “Since the Millennium Development Goal’s were adopted and the ‘Beijing call for action’ was started, in Kenya women and girls have made unprecedented legal rights while also closing the gender gap with their male counterparts in several areas of development,” said Ms Zewde. Speaking at the UN Complex in Nairobi during a Multi-Generational Dialogue in celebration of the International Women’s Day on…
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SIERRA LEONE: UN Hails Country’s Post Conflict Recovery
FREETOWN, March 07, 2014 (CISA) -The UN Secretary-General has hailed Sierra Leone because of the great strides it has made away from civil war towards peace, stability and long-term development. “Sierra Leone represents one of the world’s most successful cases of post-conflict recovery, peacekeeping and peace building,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at a press conference alongside Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma in Freetown on Wednesday 05. Ban Ki-moon was speaking during the launch of a new phase that would see the United Nations transition from its political mission in Sierra Leone to a development focused mission. According to the…
CAR: UN Considers Sending More Troops to Troubled Nation
BANGUI, March 07, 2014 (CISA) -UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has recommended the deployment of more peacekeeping personnel to the Central African Republic (CAR) in a report to the members of United Nations Security Council. The report released early in the week proposed sending nearly 12,000 soldiers, plus 1,820 police officers and eventually civilian specialists to rebuild state institutions, from city halls to courts following renewed calls from the nation’s leadership to help avert a “humanitarian disaster”. Ban Ki-moon said the UN needed to send in personnel “with the full range of capacities required to address the deep-rooted nature of…
UGANDA: Bishops Reviewing Anti-gay law, Says Church Official
KAMPALA, March 07, 2014 (CISA) -Uganda’s Catholic bishops have begun reviewing a text of the country’s new anti-gay law in order to come up with “an educated” response, a senior church official has said. “We want to do a good, educated study of it, so we can make an educated judgment,” said Msgr John Baptist Kauta, Secretary-General of the Uganda Episcopal Conference. Msgr Kauta, who spoke to Catholic News Service (CNS) by phone March 05, more than week after the controversial bill became law, said the bishops had just finished a retreat and had only gotten an official text of…
KENYA: UN Commends State for Championing Women Rights
NAIROBI, March 07, 2014 (CISA) – United Nations Under-Secretary –General and Director- General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) Ms Sahle-Work Zewde has commended the Kenya government for its active role in championing of women’s rights. “Since the Millennium Development Goal’s were adopted and the ‘Beijing call for action’ was started, in Kenya women and girls have made unprecedented legal rights while also closing the gender gap with their male counterparts in several areas of development,” said Ms Zewde. Speaking at the UN Complex in Nairobi during a Multi-Generational Dialogue in celebration of the International Women’s Day on…
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ETHIOPIA: Catholic Presence in the Somali Region of Ogaden Very Limited
GODE, March 04, 2014 (CISA) -Father Christopher Hartley Sartorios, a Spaniard, a 55-year-old diocesan missionary from Toledo, is the only Catholic priest who has ever reached the Somali region of Ethiopia called Ogaden, where he has been living alone for 7 years in Gode, a territory which is 100% Muslim. During a recent visit to Rome, he told Fides Agency how he began his mission there. “In February 2007 I attended a meeting of the Missionaries of Charity in Addis Ababa with Sister Nirmala, the then Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity of Mother Teresa, and the Regional Superior…
KENYA: ‘Sheng’ and Electronic Communication Devices to Blame for Poor Performance in English, says Kaimenyi
NAIROBI, March 04, 2014 (CISA) – Professor Jacob Kaimenyi, the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology on Monday, March 03 faulted use of slang language and electronic communication devices as the main cause for decline in performance in English by secondary students. “This decline has been attributed to the increased use of “sheng” in our schools, the consistent use of electronic communication devices such as mobile phones and computers that have done away with the need to know how to construct sentences and spell words correctly due to “spell checking” and “predictive text” capabilities,” said Kaimenyi. Kaimenyi was…
NIGERIA: Disabled Man Forced to Watch as Militants Kill Guards
SHUWA, March 04, 2014 (CISA) -A disabled man from northern Nigeria has spoken of his horror as he was forced to watch extremists carry out a string of atrocities, including the killing of four men as well as arson attacks that razed a Catholic school to the ground. According to Zenit, staff and students from St Joseph’s Minor Seminary in the small communmity of Shuwa fled for their lives and hid in a nearby forest when suspected Boko Haram militants stormed into the village with an armored tank, rocket launchers, high caliber guns and more than a dozen jeeps. Among…
KENYA: PMC Children Donate Foodstuff to S Sudan
NAIROBI, March 4, 2014 (CISA) -On Saturday, March 01, Kenyan Catholic children, members of the Pontifical Missionary Childhood (PMC) donated food stuff, old clothes and shoes to their counterparts in the South Sudan. The occasion was during the marking of this year’s PMC Day for the Archdiocese of Nairobi, held at Nairobi’s Saint Mary’s Play Ground, Msongari and under the theme: Mary Our Model of Faith, Hope and Charity. The Mass was presided over by John Cardinal Njue and in the presence of the Vatican’s representative in Kenya and the South Sudan, His Excellency Archbishop Charles Daniel Balvo. In his…
KENYA: Promote Justice at All Levels, urges Bishop Kamau
NAIROBI, MARCH 04, 2014 (CISA) -Kenyans have been urged to promote justice and peace at all levels. They have also been urged to adhere to the tenets of reconciliation, central in matters pertaining to forgiveness. The remarks were said by Rt Rev David Kamau, the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Nairobi on Sunday, March 02, when he launched the 2014 Lenten Campaign for the Archdiocese. The occasion was held at Queen of Apostles Catholic Church play Ground, Ruaraka. He said both the Church and civic leaders should lead the way in the promotion of justice, peace and reconciliation among…
KENYA: Rights Commission Calls for New Measures to Enable Credible Elections
NAIROBI, March 04, 2014(CISA) -Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) has called for improved measures to be put in place by the Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to guarantee the credibility of the voting process in future. George Morara, Senior Programme officer, KHRC said that the failure of the IEBC to conduct free and fair elections in last year’s General Elections created diverse impact on the public confidence. “A comprehensive scrutiny through an independent and transparent forensic audit of the registration, voting and tallying processes may at this point be the only means of clearly identifying the full cause and impact…
ZAMBIA: Bishop Hamungole to be consecrated in March, Says Vatican
LUSAKA, February 28, 2014(CISA) – The Episcopal ordination of Rev Fr Moses Hamungole as Bishop will take place in Zambia on March 3. In a statement sent to CISA on February 28, Fr Raimundo Rocha, Leer Parish Priest said that the appointment by Pope Francis of Rev Fr Moses Hamungole as the head of catholic diocese of Monze in Zambia, “showed the faithfulness, love and willingness of God, as a father to bless and favor any of his children who live by his tenets and follow his will”. “Many individual, parents and families who are catholic in Africa and elsewhere…
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Yes, Kenya Matters
1st Sunday of Lent (A) — 9th March 2014
1st Sunday of Lent (A) — 9th March 2014 During this time of Lent, YES KENYA MATTERS (YKM) adopts a different format: A word from Pope Francis concerning our homilies. A brief presentation of the readings taken from the Lenten Campaign 2014. Some explanation of the weekly topics, also taken from the Lenten Campaign. Yes, Kenya Matters will offer a reflection from different sources. 1. A word from Pope Francis concerning our homilies 135. “Let us now look at preaching within the liturgy, which calls for serious consideration by pastors. I will dwell in particular, and even somewhat meticulously, on…
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