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  • Visit of Patriarch Bartholomew to Taizé
    • Two video clips of common prayer
    • Visit of Patriarch Bartholomew to Taizé: Words of Welcome by Brother Alois
    • Speech during the Common Prayer
    • The Key Moments in Photos
  • Vocation and History
    • A bit of history: The Beginnings
    • A lifelong commitment
    • About Taizé: The Community Today
    • Brother François (1929-2018)
    • Brother Thomas (1939-2019)
    • Ascertaining the Truth
    • A pilgrimage of trust on earth
    • Brother Alois, Prior of Taizé
  • Brother Roger, Founder of Taizé
    • 12 May 1915 – 16 August 2005: Homage to Brother Roger
    • Why Brother Roger died
    • A way of reconciliation
      • Benedict XVI speaks of Brother Roger: “An ecumenism lived spiritually”
      • Interview with Brother Alois: Something that was without precedent
      • Mgr Daucourt, Bishop of Nanterre: Ecumenism is first of all an exchange of gifts
      • Déclaration by the French Protestant Federation: Let us respect the memory of Brother Roger
    • Photos of Brother Roger
    • Video: Brother Roger: A key word from my youth
  • Other people on Taizé
    • John Paul II: One passes through Taizé as one passes close to a spring of water
    • Paul Ricœur: “Liberating the core of goodness”
    • Olivier Clément: "Trust will have the last word"
    • Celebration of Taizé’s 70th Anniversary
      • Celebration of the 70th anniversary of Taizé - Messages received
  • Brothers living in other places
    • The brothers in Kenya
      • The brothers in Kenya
      • Back in Nairobi
      • Meetings and retreats in Nairobi
        • Meetings and retreats in Nairobi: program for 2017
        • Meetings and retreats in Nairobi: program for 2013
        • August 2012 : "Looking by ourselves and sharing"
        • April 2012: Three international retreats
        • Meetings in Nairobi : December 2011
        • Meetings in Nairobi: August 2011
        • Meetings in Nairobi: April 2011
        • Meetings at Nairobi: December 2010
        • Meetings at Nairobi: August 2010
        • Retreat at Nairobi: April 2010
    • The brothers in Senegal
      • The brothers in Senegal
      • A fraternité in Dakar
      • Sénégal: Young people from the villages around Taizé visiting Dakar
      • Lets go and see ak benn!
      • "Ak benn"
      • Voluntary drains clean-up in Grand-Yoff!
      • Griots at the Taizé house in Dakar
      • Refugees in Dakar
      • Locked and barred?
      • The children in Dakar are also accompanying COP21
    • The brothers in Bangladesh
      • The brothers in Bangladesh
      • Estema, the “assembly” at Tongi
      • The station children’s club
      • Rajshahi – following the meeting in Kolkata
      • Learning for life: The stipend program schools in Mymensingh
      • "Singing as we go"
      • Islam in Bangladesh
      • As Christmas draws near
      • Sing to the tune of a new life
      • Floods in August 2007
      • Visits in Nepal
      • On Christmas Day: a great gust of joy
      • Bangladesh: Festival for street children in Dhaka
      • Meeting in Mymensingh, June 2012
      • October 2012 : News of the brothers in Bangladesh
      • Bangladesh: A clown in Dhaka’s main railway station
    • The brothers in Korea
      • The brothers in Korea
      • A Life of waiting
      • A visit to the North
      • In Seoul: some hours of prayer and silence
    • The brothers in Brazil
      • The brothers in Brazil
      • A week of prayer for Christian Unity at Alagoinhas
      • Apprenticeships: Thirsting for a future: journeys on paths unknown
      • Brazil, October 2015: Pilgrimage of Trust in Salvador
      • The "brincadeira"
      • The brincadeira: “It is never too late to learn!”
      • The seeing and talking hands club
      • The "Emmaus" children
      • “Jornada da Confiança” at Vitoria da Conquista
      • An evening in the neighbourhood
      • Three months in Haiti
  • The Brothers’ Work
    • Books, CDs, DVDs
    • Download recordings and printable music
    • The ceramic adventure
    • “Circle Colours”
    • New Publications
    • Acts of the two colloquia held at Taizé in 2015
    • A new film: Moments in the Life of Brother Roger
    • New CD: «LAUDAMUS TE»
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  • Solidarity: Operation Hope
    • An action of solidarity in North Korea
    • Portraits of Some Projects
  • Anniversaries 2015: Towards a new solidarity
    • From 1940 to 2015…
    • Prayers and Acts of Solidarity across the world
    • Many Church Leaders and Representatives of Other Religions at Taizé
    • Gathering for a New Solidarity: Workshops in Taizé
    • 16 August 2015: Messages Received from Religious Leaders
    • Meditations on Joy, Simplicity and Mercy
    • Gathering for a New Solidarity: Photos
    • Taizé: 10 May: Festive and collected atmosphere for the centenary of Brother Roger’s birth
    • Summer 2015: ARTtogether : Exhibition and Hands-On Workshops at Taizé
    • The icon of mercy
    • Gathering for a New Solidarity: Echoes from the week
    • Gathering for a New Solidarity: Workshops at Taizé

Meetings and retreats in Nairobi

16 January 2017

Meetings and retreats in Nairobi: program for 2017

Preparing ourselves to become leaders in our local Churches and communities requires deep roots in a personal relationship with Christ. The retreats at Mji wa furaha are aimed to develop the capacity of young adults in taking responsibilities. Together we want to go to the wellsprings of faith through prayer, bible reflection, common life, personal reflection and sharing...Monthly (...)

16 January 2013

Meetings and retreats in Nairobi: program for 2013

Mji wa furaha 2013 Together we want to go to the wellsprings of faith through prayer, bible sharing, common life, personal reflection and silence… We will ask: how can we make our life a “pilgrimage of trust”, searching for communion with God and contributing to reconciliation in our communities. Monthly recollection program Starting the last Friday of the month: 6.00pm (...)

30 August 2012

August 2012 : "Looking by ourselves and sharing"

From 8 to 19 August the brothers of Taizé in Nairobi welcomed one hundred and thirty five young people from the five countries of East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda) for two retreats. Many young Kenyans, leaders in their dioceses, took part.The astonishment of the participants is proof of the novelty of the experience of silence, personal mediation on the bible and sharing in groups: "I thought I was coming for a retreat, but it was just the opposite! Usually on a retreat we listen to talks morning and evening. This time (...)

30 April 2012

April 2012: Three international retreats

This April, the brothers of Taizé living in Kenya have led three international retreats, one in Mombasa and two in Nairobi. A hundred and sixty young people aged 18 to 30 from six East African countries attended. "Let’s meet up in Kigali at the November meeting" on leaving the young people expressed their desire to continue the friendships made during the days punctuated by common prayer, reflection and sharing. African youth have the ability to create a festive atmosphere with very little: clapping, songs that get the body moving, some (...)

27 December 2011

Meetings in Nairobi : December 2011

Between 7 and 18 December 2011, 120 young adults: Catholics, Lutherans and Presbyterians from five countries of East Africa took part in two meetings led by Brothers of Taizé at Mji wa furaha – Nairobi. During the period before Christmas public transport is saturated. This however did not discourage the participants from setting out to get to Nairobi. The three young people from Bukoba, on the west coast of Lake Victoria, had to spend a night in order to cross the biggest lake in Africa and then a second night in order to reach the Kenyan (...)

19 August 2011

Meetings in Nairobi: August 2011

From 3 to 14 August 2011, 160 young adults from Kenya, different countries of East Africa and the Great Lakes region took part in two international retreats led by the Taizé brothers in Nairobi. Small sharing group “Another time, you should invite some of our leaders! If they also could experience this simplicity of life that does not prevent joy or peace, and if many (...)

18 April 2011

Meetings in Nairobi: April 2011

The two retreats led by brothers of the community living in Nairobi since 2009 brought together 120 participants from different countries in East Africa. The presence of young volunteers from Europe, involved in various projects in Kenya, broadened the horizon of the meeting. Young man from Congo leading a small group Prayer together three times a day set the rhythm (...)

18 December 2010

Meetings at Nairobi: December 2010

From the 1st to the 12th of December 2010, two hundred young people from a dozen East African countries and beyond took part in meetings organised by the brothers of Taizé at Mji wa furaha – Nairobi. It was necessary to leave the chapel door open and to add extra benches so as to welcome all the participants for the common prayer, three times a day, which gave rhythm to the days. (...)

26 August 2010

Meetings at Nairobi: August 2010

Over 150 young people from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo took part in two retreats organised by the Taizé Brothers at Mji wa furaha – Nairobi during the second and third weeks of August. At the heart of the meetings were three times of prayer each day. The morning program consisted of Bible reflection led by one of the (...)

13 April 2010

Retreat at Nairobi: April 2010

At the end of November 2008, a young adults meeting brought together 7000 young people in Nairobi. Coming from several countries of Africa and beyond, the meeting was an African stage of the pilgrimage of trust on earth. April-June 2009, two of the brothers who prepared that meeting were back in Nairobi. Since September 2009, brothers are once again in Nairobi, and this time as “official (...)


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