Doomsday beckons: Fears religious cultism making strong rebound in Kenya as extreme poverty pushes people into the abyss
The Shakahola Forest incident involved a religious cult leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, founder of Good News International Ministries, an apocalyptic Christian group. It came to light in March 2023 after a man raised the alarm after his wife and daughter, who had travelled from the capital Nairobi to join Paul Nthenge Mackenzie’s remote Good News International Ministries in Kilifi County vanished.
WHO recommends social and psychological support for school girls to address adolescent pregnancy
Reasons for early pregnancy vary, but are interrelated including gender inequities, poverty, lack of opportunity and inability to access sexual and reproductive health services, with also a strong correlation with child marriage; and in low- and middle-income countries.
Poor Pope and People’s Pope: While John Paul I was a paragon of tenacity and courage, Pope Francis was citadel of theological learning
Pop John Paul I: We have no temporal goods to exchange, no economic interests to discuss. Our possibilities for intervention are specific and limited and of a special character. They do not interfere with the purely temporal, technical and political affairs, which are matters of your government.
Vatican announces Pope Francis’ funeral will be held on Saturday, many world leaders expected
The Pope started to feel unwell at around 5:30 a.m. (0330 GMT) on Monday and was promptly attended to by his team. More than an hour later he made a gesture of farewell to his ever-present nurse, Massimiliano Strappetti and slipped into a coma, the Vatican’s official media channel said.
Scramble in Holy See: Guinean Cardinal Sarah among top contenders to replace fallen Pope Francis as head of Catholic Church
Any baptised Catholic male is eligible, although only cardinals have been selected since 1378. The winner must receive at least two-thirds of the vote from those cardinals under age 80 and thus eligible to participate. Pope Francis, who died on Monday, appointed the vast majority of electors, often tapping men who share his pastoral priorities, which suggests continuity rather than rupture.
After years of grassroots mobilisation, 700 young Maasai girls spurn genital mutilation for alternative rite of passage
During the three-day session, over 700 girls aged between 10-17 years received training on life skills and decision making, sexual and reproductive health, child rights and gender equality, hygiene and personal care and education and career aspirations.
Great grandchildren of former slave owners and slaves in the Caribbean up the ante for reparations at UN meeting
The Geneva-based Human Rights Council has called for global action for years, including reparations, apologies and educational reforms to make amends for racism against people of African descent. The 15-nation Caribbean Community, known as CARICOM, has a 10-point plan for reparatory justice, starting with demands for European countries where enslaved people were kept and traded to issue formal apologies.
Divine message: Catholic cleric blasts Kenya president’s reckless borrowing, misuse of loans
The cleric further termed human organ trafficking as unacceptable saying a person can donate their organ upon demise through a will to be used by patients who want it.
Bluffs and contradiction that were Ugandan kingdoms: Why Museveni created so-called cultural institutions to manipulate politics
The strategy was to de-politicise the defunct kingdoms and make them completely dependent on the centre, which wanted to use them to achieve its political ends. This strategy made the LC1 politically more powerful than “the new cultural leaders”. LC1 or Local Council One is the lowest level of political organisation and administration of government.
Girls at War: Rattled Kenya regime fires bullets and teargas at unarmed schoolgirls to stop Echoes of War play as world filmmakers zoom in
The inconsistencies in government position on creative have at times been hilarious, even ridiculous, the kind of flip-flopping that has now attracted the likes of Hollywood to inquire about playwright’s willingness to turn the play into a film on Kenya’s outrageously corrupt Ruto administration.
