{"id":1497,"date":"2017-08-25T18:03:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T18:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.karongadiocese.org\/?p=225"},"modified":"2017-08-25T18:03:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T18:03:02","slug":"1600-catholic-youth-gathered-annual-diocesan-rally-chaminade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/1600-catholic-youth-gathered-annual-diocesan-rally-chaminade\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 1,600 Catholic Youth Gathered for an Annual Diocesan Rally at Chaminade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Benjamin Msowoya<\/p>\n<p>Through the Youth Desk, the Diocese of Karonga has gathered over 1,600 youths at Chaminade Secondary School for their 2017 Diocesan rally.\u00a0 The Youth Rally will run from 23 August to 27 August 2017.\u00a0\u00a0 The Youth Desk hopes that the rally will help the youth to interact, learn from each other and acquire more knowledge on Church doctrine and life skills from various presentations that have been prepared.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of this year\u2019s youth rally is \u201cHonoring the Father\u2019s House with my Life as Youth\u201d (<em>Muwukilano Watumbike Nyu<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_226\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-226\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-226\" src=\"http:\/\/news.karongadiocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Youth-Rally-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catholic Boys and Girls Arriving for the rally<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>mba ya Wadada na Umoyo Wake<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Though the numbers keep increasing, so far, the numbers that are registered on 23 August, the day of arrival are as follows:<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 474px;\" width=\"564\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"22\">#<\/td>\n<td width=\"241\"><strong>PARISH<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"101\"><strong>NO. of Youth<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"22\">1<\/td>\n<td width=\"241\">ST STEVENS<\/td>\n<td width=\"101\">110<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"22\">2<\/td>\n<td width=\"241\">ST MARYS<\/td>\n<td width=\"101\">205<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"22\">3<\/td>\n<td width=\"241\">ST JOSEPH THE WORKER<\/td>\n<td width=\"101\">150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"22\">4<\/td>\n<td width=\"241\">ST ANNES (+ LIVINGSTONIA)<\/td>\n<td width=\"101\">290<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"22\">5<\/td>\n<td width=\"241\">ST IGNATIUS<\/td>\n<td width=\"101\">135<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"22\">6<\/td>\n<td width=\"241\">ST MICHAELS (+ JOHN PAUL II)<\/td>\n<td width=\"101\">675<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"22\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"241\">ST MATHIAS<\/td>\n<td width=\"101\">110<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"22\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"241\"><strong>TOTAL<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"101\"><strong>1,675<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Fr Charles Peter Chinula, the Diocesan Social Communications Secretary, on behalf of Bishop Martin Mtumbuka presided over the opening mass on 24 August 2017.\u00a0\u00a0 He urged the youth to know how much worth they are as \u2018temples of the Holy Spirit\u2019 and live lives that manifest such an understanding. He also appealed to them that on top of being ambitious they should also be contented with what God has given them.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, 27 August, the Vicar General for the Diocese of Karonga, Mons. Denis Chitete, will preside over the closing mass for the 2017 Diocesan Youth Rally.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Benjamin Msowoya Through the Youth Desk, the Diocese of Karonga has gathered over 1,600 youths at Chaminade Secondary School for their 2017 Diocesan rally.\u00a0 The Youth Rally will run from 23 August to 27 August 2017.\u00a0\u00a0 The Youth Desk hopes that the rally will help the youth to interact, learn from each other and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}