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Responding to Police Abuse of Power

Human Rights Watch reported at least six people died from police violence during the first 10 days of  Kenya’s dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed on March 27th to contain the spread of Covid-19 (Kenya: Police Brutality During Curfew, 2020). According to International Justice Mission Kenya, 1 in 3 people experienced police abuse or harassment in 2018. In

Antony Mjomba

When the Safaricom’s mast at Saretho was brought down by a militia group and then followed by the killing of teachers at close proximity to my working station in Dadaab Refugee camp, it was an enigma to figure out my place in God’s Mission. My students (refugees), on the other hand, would scream and cry

Pauline Njoronge

I am Pauline Njoroge, in STEM Chaplaincy at AIU. I joined STEM 2 years ago, very ambitious to soak in every stirring into personal development in a holistic scope. My best memory upon the commencement of each of the two years is of me looking at things I earnestly needed to learn and looking to

Science (Too) is on God’s Table | Stephen Kioko

C.S Lewis once argued, “men became scientific because they expected law in nature, and they expected law in nature because they believed in a Lawgiver.” The quest for man to ‘discover’ these laws must have first been inspired by the fact that they exist.   It then follows, that one of the best avenues and opportunities

Ministering to a Sick World | Jacob Kinyua

The outbreak of Coronavirus that is rapidly spreading all over the world has worried many. Most people on earth today have never faced such an existential threat as they are now, hence panicking. To make matters worse we are not sure to what extent the disease will spread both locally and globally or even when

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Mission in the Northern Hemisphere

“August 7th, 2018, we left our motherland for a 10-month exchange program in Norway that would see us participate in student ministry work with the Norwegian International Fellowship of Evangelical Students movement called LAGET. The Norwegian word ‘laget’ means team. We got to Oslo; Norway’s capital on the morning of 8th August 2018 and were

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Though it tarries! Mercy Lena Nekesa Sunguti, Karatina University

“Sweet hour of prayer, Sweet hour of prayer…” When I think of this hymn, I find immense joy as being drawn nearer to God and reminded of prayer. Many Christians testify of the answered prayers more than those yet to be answered. Well, I testify of an unanswered prayer for I have faith that God

The sparrows that still fly

The events of April 2nd 2015 in Garrisa University College when terrorists attacked the Christian Students will forever be engraved in the hearts of many, particularly those who experienced them first hand. The healing process for the students has not been an easy journey for them, and those around them too. FOCUS has continued to

Irreversible effects of the ongoing University Lecturers’ Strike

In the past decade, 1st of March would find most of the public university students revising for their end-of-second-semester exams. Soon after, the first year students would enjoy a four months’ recess while the senior students would be busy in their industrial attachment. Such stories sound like old tales to the current crop of varsity

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LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

BY LUCIA KATILE: A student of Karatina University Contact: luciakitile@yahoo.com Does the Lord speak? It was at Ezra Conference 2016 held at Kabarak University organized by FOCUS Kenya I got an opportunity to interact more with the Lord through the Word of the Lord and prayer. It has taken me a couple of months requesting