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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.

Las dos iniciativas del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) sobre el VIH se reunieron para revisar y celebrar su labor crucial y transformadora, y seguir planificando una intervención reforzada del CMI en materia de VIH a través de la nueva Comisión de las Iglesias para la Salud y la Sanación.

Zwei HIV-Initiativen des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK) haben auf einer gemeinsamen Konferenz die wichtige und lebensverändernde Arbeit dieser beiden Projekte Revue passieren lassen, ihre Erfolge gewürdigt und weitere Planungen für eine entschlossenere Antwort auf HIV und AIDS innerhalb der neuen Kommission der Kirchen für Gesundheit und Heilen auf den Weg gebracht.

Les responsables de deux initiatives de lutte contre le VIH du Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE) se sont réunis pour examiner et célébrer le travail accompli ainsi que pour poursuivre la planification d'une lutte renforcée du COE contre le VIH au sein de la nouvelle Commission pour la santé et la guérison du COE.

Two World Council of Churches (WCC) HIV initiatives met to review and celebrate the critical and life-changing work of the initiatives and to continue planning for a strengthened WCC HIV response in the new WCC Commission of the Churches on Health and Healing.

Ayoko Bahun-Wilson is regional coordinator for West Africa for the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy programme. She hosted a weekly radio show for churches in Benin called “Zero Rape, Zero Violence.” The show was offered in collaboration by the WCC, Deborah Network, INACES and Hosannah Radio.

Below, Bahun-Wilson reflects on how the radio show, offered every Wednesday for three months, has heightened awareness—but there are many challenges that remain.

Using lessons learned from building health-competent faith communities and responding to the HIV and AIDS epidemic, African church leaders are doing their best to help their communities cope with the novel coronavirus.

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.

A series of four manuals produced by the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy were launched on 1 May in Nairobi, Kenya. The manuals address ecumenical needs for faith-based resources to treat and prevent the spread of HIV along with education on gender issues.

For HIV-infected people in Nairobi, the Eastern Deanery Aids Relief Program makes a difference. By providing a quarter of the antiretroviral therapy care, it helps around 26,000 HIV-infected people in the Kenyan capital to live normal lives.

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.

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.

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.

El libro “There is Something We Long For” (Tenemos un deseo), compilado por teólogas africanas, fue objeto de elogios cuando sus autoras recibieron el Premio Marga Bührig 2017 en un simposio en Basilea (Suiza) el fin de semana.

Des théologiennes africaines, auteures du livre «There is Something We Long For» (Nous avons un rêve), ont reçu le prix Marga Bührig 2017 lors d'un colloque en fin de semaine, à Bâle, en Suisse, où l’ouvrage a été honoré.