{"id":23893,"date":"2026-01-23T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=23893"},"modified":"2026-01-23T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:19:00","slug":"amecea-prayer-for-the-21st-plenary-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/amecea-prayer-for-the-21st-plenary-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"AMECEA Prayer for the 21ST Plenary Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>By Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSA<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the Catholic Church in Eastern Africa prepares for the <strong>21st Plenary Assembly of the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa (AMECEA)<\/strong>, scheduled to take place in <a href=\"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/amecea-kenya-to-host-ameceas-21st-plenary-assembly-in-2026\/\">Kenya<\/a><strong> from 18 to 26 July<\/strong>, the people of God are invited to pray for God\u2019s guidance for the planning, discussions, and outcomes of the regional gathering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The upcoming <strong>AMECEA Plenary Assembly<\/strong> will place young people at the centre of its deliberations, examining how the Church can journey with them amid challenges such as unemployment, social exclusion, migration, and political instability, under the <a href=\"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/amecea-theme-for-ameceas-21st-plenary-assembly-to-focus-on-youth-and-good-governance\/\">theme<\/a> <em>\u201cAMECEA\u2019s Synodal Journey with Young People: Building Bridges of Communion, Hope, Justice, and Good Governance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSA As the Catholic Church in Eastern Africa prepares for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea","category-amecea-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23893","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=23893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23895,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23893\/revisions\/23895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}