Nairobi, 20 April, 2024 / 9:55 pm (ACI Africa).
The number of young people across different age groups has been on a decline in Kenya’s Archdiocese of Nairobi (ADN), an official of the Archdiocese has said, noting that the Archdiocese is implementing strategies to ensure that young people do not abandon the Church.
In an interview with ACI Africa on the sidelines of a youth council meeting to plan for the country’s national youth convention in November, ADN’s youth chaplain, Fr. Victor Mbuthia, said that the Kenyan Archdiocese has embarked on strategies to ensure that there is a smooth transition of youths from one age group to another, until they eventually join senior categories of the Church in the East African country.
“The main challenge we have in the Nairobi Archdiocese is that we are losing the young people along the various age brackets,” Fr. Mbuthia said in the Tuesday, April 16 interview, adding that if the transition problem is managed, then it will be “a big plus” for the Archdiocese that is under the pastoral care of Archbishop Philip Anyolo.
He added, “In October last year, we had a transition training seminar. The training was about having the maximum transition from one group to the other.”
The member of the Clergy of the Kenyan Archdiocese explained the different groups of young people under his care based on the age brackets and objectives.
