Browsing by Author "Healey, Joseph"

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    The Experience of Small Christian Communities (SCCs) in Eastern Africa (AMECEA Region) in Light of the African Year of Reconciliation (AYR) from 29 July, 2015 to 29 July, 2016
    (Centre Africain de Recherche et de formation en developpement humain integral, 2015-08-06) Healey, Joseph; Pikiti, Febian; Musimba, Rose
    The Association of Member Episcopal Conferences of Eastern Africa (AMECEA) consists of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia (Somalia/Djibouti as affiliates). AMECEA dates back to July 1961, when the first meeting of bishops was held in Tanzania to establish what was known as the Inter-territorial Episcopal Meeting of the Bishops of Eastern Africa (ITEBEA). This meeting was attended by fifty-one (51) bishops from five countries -- Kenya, Tanganyika (now Tanzania), Uganda, Nyasaland (now Malawi), and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). It was in 1964, during the Second Vatican Council, that the bishops from Eastern Africa held a meeting to establish the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) with the Secretariat in Nairobi. Since then the bishops of AMECEA have held many Plenary Assemblies as the highest body to reflect on common pastoral challenges and offer responses to the arising needs of the church in the region. In July, 2014, the bishops held its 18th Plenary Assembly in Malawi under the theme “Evangelization through True Conversion.”
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    Innovations and New Trends in Small Christian Communities (SCCs) in Africa Today
    (Hekima review, 2009) Healey, Joseph
    Today there are over 90,000 Small Christian Communities (SCCs) in the eight AMECEA countries of Eastern Africa. Kenya alone has over 35,000 SCCs. The past year has seen innovations in the development of SCCs in Africa including Highlights of the SCC Practicum Papers, Case Studies of SCC Involvement in Peacemaking/ Peacebuilding and in the Kenyan Lenten Campaign 2009 and Expanding the SCC Global Collaborative Website. A careful assessment of these experiences can help chart new trends in the future of the Catholic Church in Africa. This can lead to deeper theological reflection especially in the context of evolving a contemporary African Christian Theology than includes African Narrative Theology and the Theology of the Church-Family of God in Africa
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    Now It Is Your Turn: East Africans Go in Mission
    (Tangaza University College, 2013-10-11) Healey, Joseph
    This study presents a wide variety of data and examples on East African (Kenyan, Tanzanian, and Ugandan) Catholic missionaries going to other places in their own country, to other countries in Africa, and to other continents. The increasing number of African priests, Brothers, Sisters, and laypeople being sent throughout the world is striking and has important ramifications for the future shape of global Catholicism and global Christianity. The letters (including per­sonal testimonies) from Kenyan missionaries around the world are a source of narrative missiology. Like the famous mission diaries of old, these letters portray both the personal struggles and the searching of the African missionaries them­selves and the methods of their missionary evangelization
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    Promoting Small Christian Communities in Eastern Africa in the Light of The Joy of the Gospel
    (Tangaza University College, 2014-03) Healey, Joseph
    Pope Francis is very popular in Africa and his Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, The Joy of the Gospelhas received an enthusiastic response. The Paulines Publication Africa (Daughters of St. Paul) based inNairobi published the first African English Edition in November, 2013 with a delightful cover photo of the pope embracing a little African girl. The book is No. 24 in “The Pope Speaks Series.” The book is very popular and now is in it s Fourth Reprint with a total of 11,000 copies already printed. The exhortation has been translated into French, Swahili and other African languages. Catholic in the Local Churches in Eastern Africa immediately began using the book in private and public prayer, homilies, talks, recollection days, retreats, workshops, seminars and classes in the constituent colleges connected to the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA). The pope‟s pastoral, practical, down to earth style appeals to many people. The book has been very helpful and inspiring to members of the 120,000 Small Christian Communities (SCCs) 1 in the AMECEA 2 Region.
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    Small Christian Communities (SCCs) Promote Family Ministry in Eastern Africa
    (Hekima review, 2013) Healey, Joseph
    The nine AMECEA Countries are preparing for the III Extraordinary World Synod of Bishops on "The Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the Context of Evangelization" to take place in Rome from 5-19 October, 2014. In Eastern Africa Small Christian Communities (SCCs) are part of the consultation process and answered 11 of the 39 questions in the poll.Research on the 120,000 SCCs in Eastern Africa reveals that SCCs elect lay ministers/animators/coordinators for specific groups such as couples (married and engaged), youth and children andfor specific pastoral ministries such as Catechesis, Justice and Peace, Religious Education, Sacraments and Spiritual/Religious Formation. A SCC is a communion of families.The SCC is an important support group for families and promotes a family culture. The SCC is both a place and a path for pastoral care and evangelization. This praxis of SCCs in Africa is contributing to the development of the theology of the Church as Family of God
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    Something Good From Africa: Enriching World Christianity with African Wisdom
    (Orbis Books, 1999) Healey, Joseph
    Two American missionaries with a combined experience of 75 years in Africahave come up with a model of spreading the Gospel by using parallels fromAfrican oral traditions. "One who sees something good must narrate it," says an Ugandan proverb. The following true story comes from Kilimambogo, near Nairobi in Kenya, East Africa and is taken from Towards An African Narrative Theology