05/16/2012

Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, Rev. Herbert E Randall was, first of all, a Holiness Movement Church missionary in Asyut, and then a Pentecostal missionary in Cairo. Randall was born into a Methodist family in Eastern Canada. As a young man living in Ottawa he came under the influence of Methodist revivalist Rev Ralph Horner and through his ministry came to vital Christian faith. In 1895 Horner was deposed from ministry in the Methodist Church for refusing to take a pastoral charge. Within months he birthed The Holiness Movement Church, based in Ottawa, Canada.

04/14/2012

 Arthur Gathuna was one of the early leaders of the Kikuyu Karing'a Education Association and was instrumental in leading the Christians who had left the Scottish Presbyterian Mission churches  to form the African Orthodox Church in Kiambu in Central Kenya.  Gathuna was trained to be a priest by Archbishop Daniel Alexander of the African Orthodox Church in South Africa during his 16 month visit to Kenya in 1936.  Gathuna was ordained as a priest along with two others by Archbishop Alexander shortly before his departure for South Africa.

04/14/2012

Vincent McCauley was the first Catholic bishop of Fort Portal in Uganda. 

04/13/2012

Aloys Mulindwa Mutabesha Mugoma Mweru was a priest, a bishop and an archbishop of Bukavu in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

04/13/2012

Religious of the Province of Africa, bishop of Wamba (1990), transferred to lsiro-Niangara (1995), Archbishop of Bukavu (2001).

The twelfth bishop from Assumptionist community in the Catholic church.

04/13/2012

Louis Mary Shea was an American Dominican friar who spent 19 years in Kenya doing social ministry in Kisumu, after having spent 38 years in Nigeria (1953-1991, mostly in Gusau and Sokoto).   He was well trained in financial accountability and had a ministry of financial counseling to small business owners, families concerning their family financial planning, and developed a sort of cooperative union.    He gave a lot of retreats and was a very edifying preacher and spiritual director.  He died of cancer in Kisumu in February 2010.

04/13/2012

Louis Mary Shea was an American Dominican friar who spent 19 years in Kenya doing social ministry in Kisumu, after having spent 38 years in Nigeria (1953-1991, mostly in Gusau and Sokoto).   He was well trained in financial accountability and had a ministry of financial counseling to small business owners, families concerning their family financial planning, and developed a sort of cooperative union.    He gave a lot of retreats and was a very edifying preacher and spiritual director.  He died of cancer in Kisumu in February 2010.

12/09/2010

Nyam was the oldest son of the chief of Zarazong in the Jarawa Hills. He was stricken with severe leprosy. He could not be considered as the next chief because of his illness. He went to Vom hospital to seek help but was turned away because of the advanced stage of the leprosy. He persisted in asking for help and finally Dr. Percy Barnden allowed him to stay.