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As a crowd of more than 300 gathered, the St Paul’s University School of Theology officially launched Thursdays in Black, pledging to build an Africa without violence and to join together on a pilgrimage of justice, peace, and reconciliation.

Upon the 20th anniversary of the UN Resolution 1325, the question is still being answered as to whether women’s important work in peace and security is getting the visibility it deserves.

Rev. Dr Lydia Mwaniki, director for Women, Gender and Youth at the All Africa Conference of Churches, has received the Lanfranc Award for Education and Scholarship from the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The All Africa Conference of Churches joined many across the world in expressing shock and dismay at remarks from two French scientists during a live interview on the French television channel LCI, suggesting that Africa should be the testing ground for treatment for the coronavirus.

Brought together by the South Sudan Council of Churches, women and men are sharing the pain of many years of war and associated gender-based violence in a series of workshops in Kenya and Burundi.

While lighting candles at a gathering of the All Africa Conference of Churches in Nairobi, church leaders, members of the civil society and youth on Monday launched Thursdays in Black, the global movement calling for resistance to attitudes and practices that permit rape and violence.

Unveiling the campaign, Archbishop Timothy Ndambuki, an African Brotherhood Church leader who is the chairman of the National Council of Churches of Kenya, urged churches to hear and give compassion to women suffering violence without asking questions.

A recent seminar for adolescents and young people from the Nairobi city slum Schools of Hope Clubs invited participants to address their perceptions of what it means to be a man or a woman.

Moravian women pastors and evangelists have said: “Enough is enough: no more rape and violence against women." Women leaders of the church marched in the streets of Mbeya town in Tanzania wearing black on Thursday to officially launch the Thursdays in Black global campaign to stand against rape and violence.

Dr Agnes Abuom is moderator of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee. From Kenya, Abuom is a laywoman in the Anglican Church of Kenya.

Vor dreißig Jahren haben die Mütter und Väter der ökumenischen Dekade „Kirchen in Solidarität mit Frauen“ nach Wegen gesucht, nicht nur Frauen auf der ganzen Welt bei der Suche nach Gerechtigkeit zu helfen, sondern auch ihre Rolle innerhalb der Kirchen und in der Welt zu verdeutlichen.

Thirty years ago, the founders of the Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women were searching for ways to not only help women across the globe seek justice but also highlight their contributions to churches and the world.

Am Rande der Konferenz für Weltmission und Evangelisation (CWME) gab es zahlreiche Ausstellungen von verschiedenen Gruppen und Einzelpersonen und es wurden allerhand farbenfrohe Gegenstände zum Verkauf angebote. Verschiedene Unternehmen boten Touren zu Touristenzielen und Sehenswürdigkeiten in Tansania feil, Banken waren auf der Suche nach neuen Kunden und Buchhandlungen zeigten ihr Angebot. Dieser Marktplatz, auch „Sokoni“ genannt, wurde zu einer Gelegenheit für religiöse und zivilgesellschaftliche Institutionen und Organisationen in den lokalen Gemeinwesen zu zeigen, was sie alles tun, um die Lebensbedingungen der Menschen in ihrem Umfeld zu verbessern.

The marketplace - also referred to as a “sokoni" - became an opportunity for faith and community-based institutions to share what they do to improve the lives of people around them.

Traveling from Tanzania, Esther Ngulwa brought a sense of hope regarding gender equality as she spoke on 10 March, two days before the start of the 62nd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62) in New York City.