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In Nairobi, faith leaders, children and adolescents joined efforts to mark World Children’s Day, for action together on HIV and TB.

“Having a sponsor.” “Prostitution.” “Rape.” Those are three among many grave issues that high school students face daily in Eastern Africa. Yet they have little or no safe space in which to share with adults or within churches.

As churches worldwide focus on the “Action Week for Food” in October, increasing numbers of people going hungry due to violent conflicts, failed harvests and rising food costs are compelling faith-based organizations to offer urgent intervention.

Are church schools in Kenya engaging with youth the best way they can? The WCC-EHAIA programme helped 22 principals, education secretaries and church leaders ponder this question when they met at St Julian’s Centre in Limuru.

The Global Day of Prayer to End Famine has found relevance in Africa, where communities bear the brunt of severe food shortages associated with the challenge. On 10 June, the WCC, All Africa Conference of Churches and World Evangelical Alliance called on churches to pray for millions of people at risk and those who face severe hunger.

Der Ökumenische Rat der Kirchen, die Weltweite Evangelische Allianz und die Gesamtafrikanische Kirchenkonferenz planen für den 10. Juni 2018 zusammen mit kirchlichen humanitären Organisationen und einer Koalition kirchlicher Netzwerke, Organisationen und Partner einen Weltgebetstag für ein Ende des Hungers, der in diesem Jahr zum zweiten Mal in Glaubensgemeinschaften weltweit begangen werden soll.

The WCC, World Evangelical Alliance and All Africa Conference of Churches, along with church-related humanitarian organizations and a coalition of church-related networks and organizations and partners, are planning 10 June 2018 as a second Global Day of Prayer to End Famine to be observed in faith congregations worldwide.

This week world leaders are gathered in Davos under the very theme of “Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World”. They do so at a time when we see poverty amongst plenty; hunger and thirst in the midst of abundance; shocking disparities in the quality of life between neighboring communities: real problems that the world has the potential and the possibilities to resolve.

Das Buch „Nous avons un désir. There is Something We Long For“, das Beiträge afrikanischer Theologinnen enthält, erfuhr durch die Verleihung des Marga Bührig Preises 2017 auf einem Wochenendsymposium in Basel in der Schweiz Lob und Anerkennung.

The book, “There is Something We Long For” compiled by African female theologians received accolades when its authors were presented with the Marga Bührig Award 2017 at a weekend symposium in Basel, Switzerland. The prize was celebrated on 4 November at the Missionshaus in Basel with some of the authors and editors of the group known as Tsena Malalaka who wrote the book.

Rev. Rahab Wanjiru Kariuki, an Anglican priest living with HIV in Kenya, strongly believes there’s a reason for an uptick in HIV infections among young people: “It is because we have kept silent.” Kariuki refuses to be silent and refuses to remain passive. These are mantras not only for the way she lives but for the ways in which she ministers and cares for others.

Rev. Pauline Wanjiru Njiru, eastern Africa regional coordinator for the World Council of Churches Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy (EHAIA), has worked with young people, church leaders and parents for several years now.

A conference discussing how to overcome hunger, and sustain justice and peace in the Horn of Africa, ended in Nairobi, Kenya on 29 June with faith leaders and partner organizations calling for urgent action to tackle famine, a frequent experience in the region.

Am Tag des afrikanischen Kindes 2017 beteiligten sich religiöse Verantwortungsträger/innen aus verschiedensten in Kenia vertretenen Glaubenstraditionen an einer Demonstration in Nairobi und sprachen sich öffentlich für die Rechte von HIV-positiven Kindern und Jugendlichen aus. Hunderte Menschen begleiteten sie, darunter auch Schulkinder aus sechs Schulen in Nairobi und Dutzende jugendliche Freiwillige.

Marching through the streets of Nairobi on the Day of the African Child 2017, religious leaders from a range of faith communities in Kenya spoke up publicly for the rights of children and adolescents living with HIV, accompanied by hundreds of people, among them school children from six Nairobi-based schools, as well as dozens of youth volunteers.

Am 16. Juni, dem Tag des afrikanischen Kindes, werden in Nairobi (Kenia) über 600 Menschen erwartet, um ihre Stimme für ein Ende der Aids-Epidemie unter Kindern und Jugendlichen bis 2020 zu erheben.

More than 600 people are scheduled to gather in Nairobi, Kenya on 16 June, the Day of the African Child, with the goal of speaking out for ending the AIDS epidemic among children, adolescents and young women by 2020.

On 12 March, Jane Murenga, a head teacher at a local Anglican Church-sponsored primary school, was raped and murdered in Githure village, Kirinyaga County in Kenya. She was hosting her younger sister at her home. She left the main house to take a shower in the bathroom which is detached from the house. Her sister decided to check on her, only to find her on the ground lifeless with a man on top of her, raping her.

“She is HIV positive too. No need to inherit her late husband’s title deed. She will die soon and leave it anyway.”

These man’s thoughts during his brother’s funeral were used by Jane Ng’ang’a, national coordinator, International Network of Religious Leaders Living with or Personally Affected by HIV (INERELA+) Kenya Chapter, to push the debate on property and inheritance rights linked to HIV. The discussion was held during the 61st Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), on 16 March, at the headquarters of UNAIDS, in New York.

Mehr als 120 religiöse und geistliche Führungspersönlichkeiten, Fachpersonen aus dem Gesundheitsbereich und junge Menschen trafen sich am 7. und 8. Februar in Kenia mit dem Ziel, die Bekämpfung der Stigmatisierung von HIV zu intensivieren. Vertreterinnen und Vertreter der kenianischen Regierung, von zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen, Netzwerken von HIV-Betroffenen und Partnern aus der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit nahmen ebenfalls an dem Treffen in Nairobi teil. Das Thema der Tagung lautete „Faith on the Fast Track: Eliminating Stigma and Discrimination Through Love and Dialogue“ (Glaube auf der Überholspur: Stigma und Diskriminierung durch Liebe und Dialog überwinden), und sie beleuchtete die Auswirkungen des Dialograhmens, der seit 2013 in mehreren Ländern existiert. Die Veranstaltung wurde vom kenianischen Zweig des Internationalen Netzwerks religiöser Verantwortungsträger/innen, die HIV-positiv oder persönlich von HIV/AIDS betroffen sind (INERELA+ Kenia) und vom Globalen ökumenischen Aktionsbündnis des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK-EAA) organisiert und nebst anderen durch das Programm der Vereinten Nationen für HIV/Aids (UNAIDS) unterstützt.