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In the search for true repentance and liberation, Africa needs to acknowledge its complicity in slave trade, says Rev. Fidon Mwombeki, general secretary of the All Africa Conference of Churches.

Shamsa Abubakar Fadhil, a recipient of the Zayed Award for Human Fraternity, is a household name in peace building and community mobilisation in the Kenyan coastal region.

As South Sudan readied to welcome visiting world Christian leaders, church officials in the country articulated a range of expectations, including a strong call for peace and reconciliation.

As Christians in Africa joined the celebrations to mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, a Roman Catholic priest who is involved in ecumenism, stressed the unity of the churches as central to building a concrete response to poor people’s need for justice in the continent.

Every Monday, staff and students at the Joshua and Timothy School of Theology, St Paul’s University, in Limuru Kenya hold their weekly fellowship during which they hold prayers, Bible study, and theological debates, and sometimes celebrate holy communion together.

South Sudan churches are playing a significant role in the country’s education, but food shortages are keeping millions of children out of school.

Church leaders in the Philippines gathered in an ecumenical memorial service in Manila on 21 September, the 50^th anniversary of the imposition of martial law, to solemnly recall people of faith who were tortured and killed during the brutal regime of president Ferdinand Marcos.

A consultation for theological institutions in Uganda, held 12-15 September, harnessed the contribution of theological institutions in promoting gender equity in the context of HIV and sexual and gender-based violence.

At the World Council of Churches 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe Germany, Jackcilia Salathiel Ebere will be carrying the voices of women from South Sudan who are crying for peace and justice.

At ecumenical prayers in the capital city, Juba, South Sudanese church leaders called for unity, peace, and reconciliation, as their nation continued to struggle with instability and conflict, a decade after independence.

Le secrétaire général nouvellement élu du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) estime qu’avoir grandi en Afrique du Sud, pendant une période de conflit et de souffrance, lui sera très utile lorsqu’il prendra ses fonctions à la tête de l’organisation œcuménique, en janvier, en tant que leader convaincu de la valeur du dialogue.

El secretario general electo del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) está convencido de que haber crecido durante un periodo de conflicto y sufrimiento en Sudáfrica le ayudará a ser un dirigente con fe en el diálogo, cuando asuma su cargo al frente de la organización ecuménica, en enero.

Der gewählte Generalsekretär des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) glaubt, dass es ihm zugute kommen wird, in einer Zeit von Konflikt und Leid in Südafrika aufgewachsen zu sein, wenn er seine Position als Leiter der ökumenischen Institution als eine an Dialog glaubende Führungskraft im Januar antreten wird.

The general secretary-elect of the World Council of Churches (WCC) believes that growing up during a period of conflict and suffering in South Africa will stand him in good stead when he takes up his position as the head of the ecumenical body in January as a leader who believes in dialogue.

On World Food Safety Day, clerics and farmers in Kenya reflected about aflatoxin—a group of poisons found in maize and peanuts—that continue to cause deaths and related diseases in the East African country.

In drought-stricken regions in eastern Africa, churches and church congregations continue to pray for rain, as the weather conditions leave millions of people without food, water and pasture for their animals.