Missionaries of Africa

AEFJN, what is it about?

Posted on 16/05/201718/05/2017 by Vitus Danaa Abobo

Last month, confreres asked me what does “AEFJN” mean and what is it about?

AEFJN is the abbreviation for “Africa Europe Faith and Justice Network,” (in French “Réseau Foi et Justice Afrique – Europe”). AEFJN is a Faith-based International Network present in AFRICA and in EUROPE, established in 1988 by Catholic Religious or Missionary Institutes present in Africa and Europe. Nearly fifty Institutes are AEFJN members.

We as Missionaries of Africa are very much involved in supporting AEFJN through providing resource people as well as making an annual financial contribution. Actually, Fr. Martin Grenier represents the M.Afr at the annual AEFJN General Assembly and he works on the Steering Committee of AEFJN, based in Rome. In my function as JPC-ED Coordinator, I collaborate with the AEFJN team in Brussels. Several confreres in Europe are very active in the AEFJN ANTENNAE (national groups), such as Wolfgang Schonecke in Germany, Ted Wildsmith in UK and Miguel Larburu in Spain.

The AEFJN International Secretariat in Brussels does advocacy and lobbying work with European Institutions on issues relevant to Africa. The aim of AEFJN is to promote international economic justice and to be the voice for Africans especially for those who are exploited and marginalized through land grabbing, extractive industries and the unfair trade system.

In order to be efficient and to bring up relevant issues regarding Africa, AEFJN needs local information concerning economic injustice in Africa. This information can only come from you!

Indeed, every Missionary of Africa is a member of AEFJN along with the tens of thousands of members in the other fifty missionary institutes. That is a lot of people. Let us actively become the voice of exploited and marginalised people in Africa!

For more information, discover the new website of AEFJN Brussels: http://aefjn.org/fr/accueil/ or http://aefjn.org/en/home/

Andreas Göpfert
Coordinator of JPIC-ED

Attention, ransomware !!!

Posted on 14/05/201714/05/2017 by Vitus Danaa Abobo

You’ve probably heard about the computer attack that has taken place this weekend all over the world. The virus – a ransomware – spreads via a file attached to an email. Once the file is opened, the virus is released, it blocks your system and demands a ransom for you to recover your system and your data. Some of our communities are already victims.

Please do not open any attached files these days, unless you are absolutely sure of its origin. If in doubt, call the person who sent you the message.

More information later.

Philippe Docq

Marcel Peeters, R.I.P.

Posted on 14/05/201714/05/2017 by Vitus Danaa Abobo

Father Luc Putzeys, Provincial Delegate of the sector of Belgium,
informs you of the return to the Lord of Father

Marcel Peeters

on Friday the 12th May 2017 at Antwerpen (Belgium)
at the age of 91 years, of which 67 years of missionary life
in Burundi and Belgium.

Let us pray for him and for his loved ones.

Marcel Peeters RIP

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Appointment as EAP Provincial Treasurer

Posted on 12/05/201712/05/2017 by Vitus Danaa Abobo

After a deliberative vote of his Council and after having obtained his agreement, the Superior General, Fr. Stanley Lubungo, has approved the appointment by the Provincial Council of the Province of Eastern Africa (EAP) of Fr. Deusdedit J. MJANKWI as Provincial Treasurer of EAP for a first mandate from 01st July 2017 till 30th June 2020.

Rome, 11th May 2017
André Schaminée
Secretary General

Born in Shinyanga (Tanzania) in 1973, Deusdedit Mjankwi began his missionary journey in West Africa where he stayed a little more than three years before coming back to Tanzania where he went for further studies. In July 2013, he was appointed as formator and bursar in Nairobi where, from July 2017, he will succeed to José-Manuel Gordejuela as provincial treasurer of East Africa.

Thank you to Manuel for his good work and all the best to Deusdedit in his new responsibilities.

PAC New Assistant Provincial

Posted on 12/05/201712/05/2017 by Vitus Danaa Abobo

After consultation of the confreres appointed to and coming from the Section of the Province of Central Africa (PAC), after a deliberative vote of the General Council and after having obtained his agreement, the Superior General, Fr. Stanley Lubungo, has appointed Fr. Dennis Dashong PAM as Assistant Provincial of PAC for a first mandate from 01st July 2017 till 30th June 2020.

Rome, 11th May 2017
André Schaminée
Secretary General

Born in 1982 in Zawan, Nigeria, Dennis Pam returns, at the beginning of 2010, to Rwanda, where he had done his stage, as an assistant to the parish priest of Kimisagara. In 2014, he becomes the Parish Priest and, at the same time, the Provincial Delegate of the Rwanda sector. From July, he will be the Assistant of the Provincial for the Province of Central Africa.

Thank you to Gilbert Bujiriri who is giving that service for the moment and all the best to Dennis for this service to PAC.

An account of the Oath Celebration in Jerusalem

Posted on 10/05/201710/05/2017 by Vitus Danaa Abobo

Here comes an account of the big day in Jerusalem where four students of the “small formation group” became confreres by taking the Solemn Missionary Oath. This account is written by Olivier Ndayikengurukiye, one of the four, from Burundi. Continue reading “An account of the Oath Celebration in Jerusalem”

Are the multinationals that vertuous?

Posted on 10/05/201710/05/2017 by Vitus Danaa Abobo

Please note that the video at the bottom of the page (ARTE +7) is only available until 8 August. Watch it ASAP! Note as well that it is very interesting but ONLY IN FRENCH! Introduction to the video: Would a growing share of official development assistance be diverted to large multinationals in the agri-food sector? A staggering survey conducted in three African countries: Kenya, Zambia and Tanzania. Continue reading “Are the multinationals that vertuous?”

More beautiful photos from the Oath Ceremony in Jerusalem

Posted on 06/05/201706/05/2017 by Vitus Danaa Abobo

Thank you to Father Andreas (Priest of the WORK) for his (ever) very beautiful pictures.

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Oath celebration in Jerusalem (videos)

Posted on 06/05/201706/05/2017 by Vitus Danaa Abobo

Session on auditing of accounts for provincial treasurers

Posted on 05/05/201705/05/2017 by Vitus Danaa Abobo

The Provincial Treasurers were invited to a training session on auditing of accounts given by the lay treasurer of the Netherlands on the 4th and 5th of May 2017. Here are a few pictures :

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