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“It's my 14th day in Kenya, I’ve no COVID-19 symptoms,” Priest Says, Faults Media Reports
The Kenyan priest, Fr. Richard Oduor who, according to government authorities in Kenya, tested positive for COVID-19 and got hospitalized days after returning from Italy has said that on the...
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Dioceses in Africa Seek to Align Pastoral Guidelines with State Directives over COVID-19
With at least 2,455 cases of COVID-19 confirmed across not less than 43 countries in Africa, various Catholic dioceses on the continent have announced pastoral guidelines aligned with directives issued by their...
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Kenyan Media Framing of Church “as weak link, agent of death, unethical,” Catholics Decry
The recent negative media framing of the Church in Kenya as “a weak link” and “an agent of death” has been condemned and termed unethical, with a section of Catholics...
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U.S.-Based Kenyan Capuchin Friar Decries Use of His Image for COVID-19 Positive Priest
A Kenyan-born Franciscan Capuchin Friar based in the U.S. has lamented the use of his picture by multiple media outlets in Kenya to tell the story of the Kenyan priest...
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Catholic Bishops in Kenya Officially Suspend Public Mass Over COVID-19
The Catholic Bishops in Kenya have, in a collective statement Monday, March 23, officially suspended the celebration of public Mass and other Church gatherings in line with the government’s directives to...
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Kenyan Priest Tests Positive for COVID-19 after Defying Self-Quarantine Directive
A Kenyan Catholic priest has tested positive for COVID-19 days after returning to his country from Italy, the country most hit by the deadly virus, a confirmation that has raised...
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Kenya Orders Closure of Places of Worship over COVID-19, Tanzania for Public Worship
The immediate closure of all places of worship in Kenya was among the raft of measures the government announced Sunday, March 22 in a bid to contain the spread of...
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Call to Repentance Marks National Prayer Day over COVID-19 at Kenya’s State House
Kenya’s religious leaders drawn from various faiths, including four Catholic Bishops and a nun, heeded President Uhuru Kenyatta’s invitation for the National Prayer Day Saturday, March 21 at the Nairobi-based...
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Catholic Aid Agencies Collaborating to Prevent Spread of COVID-19 in Africa
With at least 36 African countries having collectively reported more than 700 COVID-19 cases, Catholic aid agencies with presence in the world’s second largest continent are collaborating in the effort...
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Newly Ordained Apostle of Jesus Clergy to Temporarily Minister “at home” Due to COVID-19
The newly ordained deacons and priests belonging to the Religious Missionary Congregation of the Apostles of Jesus (AJ) will temporarily minister in their respective native parishes, with the measures taken...
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"Churches will remain open" for Public Mass Celebrations, Bishops in Kenya, Uganda Direct
Church leaders in Kenya and Uganda have, in separate statements issued Thursday, March 19, announced that Churches will remain open in the two East African countries for public Mass, a...
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Catholic Universities in Africa Embracing Virtual Learning after Closure over COVID-19
Catholic-run institutions of higher learning in Ghana, Kenya, Cameroon and in other African countries have taken to technology-based virtual learning to help students interact with their lecturers in the safety...
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Kenya Seeks Divine Intervention over COVID-19, President Declares National Day of Prayer
Citizens of the East African nation of Kenya are being encouraged “to turn to God”, express their fears and seek His “ever-present protection” as COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus,...
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Vicar General of Kenya’s Kitui Diocese Appointed Bishop, Says He’ll Foster Unity, Service
The Vicar General of the Diocese of Kitui in Kenya who has been appointed Bishop of the same diocese has told ACI Africa in an interview that he will prioritize fostering the...
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Kenya’s Mobile Money Provider Revises Transaction Costs, Limits, to Tame COVID-19
With two more cases of COVID-19 confirmed in the East African nation of Kenya, bringing to three the number of patients with the deadly virus and the country’s President announcing a...
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What Church Leaders in Africa Have Instructed to Prevent Spread of COVID-19
The pandemic of coronavirus that has spread to well over 80 countries across the world including at least 26 in Africa has prompted the taking of precautionary measures aimed at preventing the...
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Kenya-Based Catholic Medical School Defends Its Credibility After Closure
Following last week’s closure of a Kenya-based Catholic medical institution, the leadership of the facility has, in a Wednesday, March 11 statement, defended its credibility, blaming the state of things...
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Character Formation in Kenyan Catholic Schools Motivating Non-Catholics, Prelate Testifies
The education based on values and the formation of character fostered in Catholic schools in the East African nation of Kenya is the reason behind the enrolment and retention of...
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“Women are a gift to us,” Kenyan Archbishop to Thousands of Catholic Women Pilgrims
On the eve of the International Women’s Day (IWD), a Kenyan Prelate hailed the over 20,000 members of the Catholic Women Association (CWA) in Kenya who gathered at the Marian...
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SECAM Leadership Circulates Formulated Prayer “for a quick control of Coronavirus”
The worrying trend of the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, with some nine African countries affected is a matter of concern for those at the helm of the Symposium of...
