{"id":11590,"date":"2021-01-29T16:29:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T16:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=11590"},"modified":"2021-01-29T16:29:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T16:29:09","slug":"kenya-acweca-to-hold-virtual-plenary-assembly-in-august-amid-covid-19-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2021\/01\/29\/kenya-acweca-to-hold-virtual-plenary-assembly-in-august-amid-covid-19-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"KENYA: ACWECA to Hold Virtual Plenary Assembly in August Amid Covid-19 Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Members of the Association of Consecrated Women in Eastern and Central Africa (ACWECA) have decided to hold their 18<sup>th<\/sup> Plenary Assembly virtually following the increasing number of Covid-19 cases in most countries in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/acweca.org\/index.php\/leadership\/\">ACWECA Board Members<\/a> resolved to hold the August 2021 Plenary Assembly meeting online,\u201d The Association\u2019s President Sr. Cecilia Njeri said on behalf of the members in a Thursday January 21 statement adding, \u201cIt was not an easy decision. However, for the safety of the members coming to Nairobi from various countries, we found it prudent to conduct this important meeting virtually rather than on-site.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, ACWECA <a href=\"http:\/\/amecea.blogspot.com\/2020\/06\/kenya-religious-nuns-in-africa-postpone.html?q=acweca\">postponed<\/a> the 18<sup>th<\/sup> Plenary that was slated for August 2020 in Nairobi due to Covid-19 restrictions that were put in place by various governments in the region so as to curb the spread of Coronavirus, hoping to have a \u201cface to face encounter\u201d this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in 2021 but in most countries the situation is still not any better and in some countries it is becoming even worse,\u201d Sr. Njeri a member of the Little Sisters of St. Francis (LSOSF) narrates in the Thursday statement.<\/p>\n<p>The virtual Plenary themed \u201cRe-awaken the prophetic role: a call for reformation towards holistic transformation in ACWECA region today,\u201d is scheduled for August 23-27, where members from 10 Religious women congregations including Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe as an Associate Member are expected to attend.<\/p>\n<p>The Association\u2019s Plenary Assembly is normally held after every three years. The last 17<sup>th<\/sup> Plenary was in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2017 under the theme; \u201cRevitalize our Solidarity for deeper evangelization in today\u2019s complex reality within the Region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the letter addressed to friends of ACWECA, Sr. Njeri has promised updates about the forthcoming event and encouraged continuous prayers for God\u2019s intervention to end the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSA Members of the Association of Consecrated Women in Eastern and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea-news","category-kenya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11591,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions\/11591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}