Religious Life
The Bakhita Initiative journeys with African Women Religious in their quest to celebrate their African identity, deepen their charism, express their giftedness, and fulfil their mission and ministry with courage and creativity in the Church and in Society
The Bakhita Initiative offers religious communities opportunities for communal renewal, days of recollection, spiritual accompaniment, and Ignatian Retreats, set in the context of African inculturated rituals and liturgies
African Women Religious Communities
“With the advent of globalization and technology, African women are reflecting more and more on their experiences in the light of the gospel, in the light of the Qu’ran, and in the light of African Indigenous Religion. They are beginning to ask pertinent questions that relate to freedom, dignity, respect, and equality for all humans. As Pope Francis reminds us in Evangelii Gaudium, “The People of God is incarnate in the peoples of the earth, each of which has its own culture …Understood in this way, culture embraces the totality of a people’s life” (EG 115). “
—Anne Arabome, SSS
Catholic Women Speak: Bringing Our Gifts to the Table, 25
Association of Consecrated Women in Eastern and Central Africa (ACWECA)
Association of Consecrated Women in Eastern and Central Africa (ACWECA) A Listening and Discernment Retreat on synodality for the leaders of women religious from 10 African countries: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The purpose of the LDR was to listen to one another and discern pertinent issues that affect women religious as part of the ongoing process of synodality in the universal Church, and to develop a vision of synodality by religious women in Africa.
Sisters of Our Lady Of Africa (SOLA)
Women Religious Theologians under 60
Sr. Pat Murray ibvm, as Executive Secretary of UISG, says:
"UISG began to search for the “new voices,” - women religious who were writing or presenting on religious life today from different cultural perspective, they were aware that there was a dirth of written materials and a lack of younger presenters. And so began the adventure of creating something new – an international multi-cultural community of sister theologians – who would begin to reflect together on the meaning and purpose of religious life today."
LITTLE SISTERS OF MARY IMMACULATE OF GULU – UGANDA
Religious Sisters of the Holy Spirit
The Religious Sisters of the Holy Spirit (RSHS), were founded by Bishop James Corboy S.J. in the diocese of Monze in 1971.
Dominican Sisters of the Sacred Heart
We are Dominican Missionary Sisters,
women of various nationalities and cultures.
Aware of our dignity and giftedness,
we create life-giving, participative communities.
Handmaids of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Carmelite Sisters)
‘Congregatio Jesu’
