Fredrick Nzwili, ENI News, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Fri, 17 Jun 2022 18:08:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg Fredrick Nzwili, ENI News, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com 32 32 170042892 Faith groups in Africa mobilize to protect environment https://anglicanjournal.com/faith-groups-in-africa-mobilize-to-protect-environment-11144/ https://anglicanjournal.com/faith-groups-in-africa-mobilize-to-protect-environment-11144/#respond Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/faith-groups-in-africa-mobilize-to-protect-environment-11144/ Nairobi, Kenya – Faith groups in sub-Saharan Africa have launched long-term environmental protection action plans, which they say they will undertake in the next seven years as part of their commitments to caring for the earth. Representing nearly 184 million followers, 26 groups including Christians, Muslims and Hindus, unveiled the plans in Nairobi on Sept. […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/faith-groups-in-africa-mobilize-to-protect-environment-11144/feed/ 0 92390 Kenyan faith leaders urge calm after Mombasa riots https://anglicanjournal.com/kenyan-faith-leaders-urge-calm-after-mombasa-riots-11098/ https://anglicanjournal.com/kenyan-faith-leaders-urge-calm-after-mombasa-riots-11098/#respond Wed, 29 Aug 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/kenyan-faith-leaders-urge-calm-after-mombasa-riots-11098/ Nairobi, Kenya – Kenyan Christian and Muslim leaders are calling for calm in the coastal city of Mombasa after two days of violence over the killing of a militant Muslim cleric. Churches were torched, vandalized and looted by Muslim youths who were protesting the Aug. 27 killing of Sheikh Aboud Rogo, a cleric the American […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/kenyan-faith-leaders-urge-calm-after-mombasa-riots-11098/feed/ 0 92418 New attacks in central Nigeria worry church leaders https://anglicanjournal.com/new-attacks-in-central-nigeria-worry-church-leaders-11019/ https://anglicanjournal.com/new-attacks-in-central-nigeria-worry-church-leaders-11019/#respond Thu, 09 Aug 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/new-attacks-in-central-nigeria-worry-church-leaders-11019/ Tensions have heightened in central Nigeria following the killing on 8 August of four people near a mosque, a day after 20 worshippers in a church in the Okene area of Kogi state, were shot dead. In the mosque attack, news reports said the armed men came in a van chanting Islamic songs before they […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/new-attacks-in-central-nigeria-worry-church-leaders-11019/feed/ 0 92423 Ugandan archbishop-elect hopes for united church https://anglicanjournal.com/ugandan-archbishop-elect-hopes-for-united-church-10990/ https://anglicanjournal.com/ugandan-archbishop-elect-hopes-for-united-church-10990/#respond Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/ugandan-archbishop-elect-hopes-for-united-church-10990/ Anglican archbishop-elect Stanley Ntagali of Uganda hopes disagreement in the Anglican Communion can be resolved when a successor to Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, who retires at the end of this year, is elected. Archbishop-elect Ntagali, 58, was elected in June as the eighth Ugandan archbishop. He succeeds Henry Orombi who will retire in December ahead […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/ugandan-archbishop-elect-hopes-for-united-church-10990/feed/ 0 92392 Sierra Leone’s Radio Shalom prepares peace message https://anglicanjournal.com/sierra-leones-radio-shalom-prepares-peace-message-10965/ https://anglicanjournal.com/sierra-leones-radio-shalom-prepares-peace-message-10965/#respond Mon, 16 Jul 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/sierra-leones-radio-shalom-prepares-peace-message-10965/ In Sierra Leone, a West African country still recovering from civil war, a church-operated radio station is about to hit the airwaves with messages of peace and reconciliation. Radio Shalom, project of the Council of Churches of Sierra Leone (CCSL) and the Toronto-based World Association for Christian Communication (WACC), will broadcast from Freetown, the  capital […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/sierra-leones-radio-shalom-prepares-peace-message-10965/feed/ 0 92427 Dadaab refugee camp conditions ‘worsening’ https://anglicanjournal.com/dadaab-refugee-camp-conditions-worsening-10960/ https://anglicanjournal.com/dadaab-refugee-camp-conditions-worsening-10960/#respond Thu, 12 Jul 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/dadaab-refugee-camp-conditions-worsening-10960/ Nairobi, Kenya – Conditions in the Dadaab refugee complex in northeastern Kenya are worsening, one year after thousands of Somali migrants flocked to the settlement, according to relief agencies, which include church-based organizations. The world’s largest refugee camp is host to more than 500,000 migrants who fled conflict and famine, but many are without adequate […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/dadaab-refugee-camp-conditions-worsening-10960/feed/ 0 92410 Christian, Muslim leaders condemn church attacks in Kenya https://anglicanjournal.com/christian-muslim-leaders-condemn-church-attacks-in-kenya-10937/ https://anglicanjournal.com/christian-muslim-leaders-condemn-church-attacks-in-kenya-10937/#respond Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/christian-muslim-leaders-condemn-church-attacks-in-kenya-10937/ Faith leaders in Kenya condemned attacks on two churches on July 1 in the northeastern town of Garissa that left 17 people dead and 66 injured, according to police. The simultaneous attacks took place at Our Lady of Consolata Catholic Church and the evangelical Garissa African Inland Church by masked gunmen, according to witnesses. Kenyan […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/christian-muslim-leaders-condemn-church-attacks-in-kenya-10937/feed/ 0 92375 Central African churches aid victims of warlord Joseph Kony https://anglicanjournal.com/central-african-churches-aid-victims-of-warlord-joseph-kony-10879/ https://anglicanjournal.com/central-african-churches-aid-victims-of-warlord-joseph-kony-10879/#respond Fri, 08 Jun 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/central-african-churches-aid-victims-of-warlord-joseph-kony-10879/ In the Central African Republic, churches are aiding victims of the violence associated with Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and his rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). “Since we are humanitarian and social [organizations] as churches, we are paying great attention to the suffering and needs of these people,” the Rev. Andre Golike, President of […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/central-african-churches-aid-victims-of-warlord-joseph-kony-10879/feed/ 0 92373 Links between Christianity and African traditional religion? https://anglicanjournal.com/theologian-sees-links-between-christianity-and-african-traditional-religion-10763/ https://anglicanjournal.com/theologian-sees-links-between-christianity-and-african-traditional-religion-10763/#respond Fri, 04 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/theologian-sees-links-between-christianity-and-african-traditional-religion-10763/ Nairobi, Kenya – When a missionary asked Africans in Zanzibar to tell him something about their God, they simply said, “God thunders!” The cleric had travelled across the seas in the 19th century to tell “the heathens without religion” or “people with a primitive religion” about God. The missionaries succeeded in spreading Christianity in Africa […]

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/theologian-sees-links-between-christianity-and-african-traditional-religion-10763/feed/ 0 92385 China’s influence in Africa includes church construction https://anglicanjournal.com/chinas-influence-in-africa-includes-church-construction-10039/ https://anglicanjournal.com/chinas-influence-in-africa-includes-church-construction-10039/#respond Wed, 14 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/chinas-influence-in-africa-includes-church-construction-10039/ China is expanding its influence in Africa. Chinese corporations are winning contracts to construct buildings and churches in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo: Oleg Znamenskiy Nairobi, Kenya – At Holy Family Roman Catholic Basilica in Nairobi, African workers were recently singing lively Christian worship songs as they broke ground for the construction of a new office block […]

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