Habari za Hekima - January 2023

Abstract

Since October last year, I have been attending St. Austin’s Parish, Msongari where I have been assigned as a catechist. Founded by the Holy Ghost Missionaries in 1899, the parish is still being run by them. For nearly three years, the parish has accepted to welcome a “Frenchspeaking community”. These are mainly people from French-speaking countries who need a place to worship and pray where they can attend Mass and other Catholic prayer sessions in French. St Austin’s offered them a place, transformed into a chapel, where they organise themselves every week. From this initiative, many other things were put in place for this community to maintain their faith.....