User:Giluwa
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I write new articles and improve existing articles on African Women in Religion, African Women theologians and African women who's contributions on social, cultural, theological, academic, religious, and community fields are missing, limited or misrepresented in Wikipedia, Wikimedia, and WikiQuote. I am part of the bridge, filling knowledge and gender gaps on the Worlds' free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
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User:Giluwa/sandbox/Judith Ndombi Waudo
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User:Giluwa/sandbox/Lucia Omondi new task
User:Giluwa/sandbox/Suda Colette new task
User:Giluwa/sandbox/Ngaira Josephine Improve draft and publish
Dr Agnes Abuom (Anglican Church of Kenya), ecumenical leader and peacemaker, died on 31 May 2023. An Anglican layperson, in 2013 she became the first woman and the first African to serve as moderator of the WCC central committee, when she was elected at the WCC 10th Assembly in Busan, Republic of Korea. She served through 2022, moderating the WCC 11th Assembly, held in Karlsruhe, Germany. She served three consecutive terms on the central committee, first as a WCC president (1998-2006), then as a member (2006-2013) moderating the policy reference committee, then as moderator of the central committee (2013-2022). Her first WCC assembly was Nairobi (1975). She was a delegate of the Anglican Church of Kenya at the Harare (1998), Porto Alegre (2006), Busan (2013) and Karlsruhe (2022) assemblies. She served as moderator of the public issues committee in Porto Alegre, moderator of the policy reference committee in Busan and moderator of the assembly in Karlsruhe. She was also a member of the Special Commission on Orthodox Participation in the WCC and the Permanent Committee on Consensus and Collaboration. She worked with the All Africa Conference of Churches, the National Council of Churches in Kenya, and various other church and ecumenical organisations in Africa as well as civil society organisations including Religions for Peace. She was known for her deep commitment and passion for protecting human rights, upholding human dignity, building peace and reconciliation in conflict situations, as well as addressing issues related to poverty alleviation, diakonia, and development, were widely recognised even beyond African contexts. She was also active in ecumenical peace efforts in the Horn of Africa. She became involved with the World Council of Churches when the WCC’s assembly was held in Nairobi in 1975. She also was involved in student organizations and politics – the latter causing controversies that led her to leave Kenya for Sweden in 1975. There she learned Swedish and earned a degree in education. After two years as a youth worker for the WCC in Geneva, she returned to Sweden and earned a doctorate in missiology. She worked in the WCC Youth Sub-Unit in the 1980s and later worked with refugee issues for the WCC in Sudan, and for two years in Zimbabwe as a tutor. Upon her return to Kenya in 1989, she was imprisoned for her opposition to then President Daniel Arap Moi. She then went on to work for the Anglican Church of Kenya, mostly with national development issues, and from 1991 with a civic education program. She was given the position of ‘lay canon’ in her church and has also been the recipient of awards and recognitions such as the Lambeth Cross for Ecumenism, awarded by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2017, and the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA (NCCUSA) President’s Award for Excellence in Faithful Leadership. A role model for women in the ecumenical movement from Africa and globally, she was also known for encouraging young people to use their gifts and abilities in the ecumenical movement. https://www.oikoumene.org/sites/default/files/2023-06/PRAY%2003%20In%20Memoriam%20EN.pdf
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User:Giluwa/sandbox/Ng'endo Mukii new task
Florence Wambugu Improve existing article
User:Giluwa/sandbox/Omega Bula new task
User:Giluwa/sandbox/Rose Materu new task