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[Joyce Nyairo @jnyairo]

I never fail to remember Mohammed Juma Njuguna whenever the FIFA World Cup hijacks our screens and our sleep. So as the 2026 edition draws to a close, let me share with you Njuguna’s art of the Live broadcast.

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[Ugochukwu Ugwoke, ISch @FrUgochukwu]

This is how Christians in Syria received the new Apostolic Nuncio to Syria, Archbishop Luigi Roberto Cona. It was not just Catholics that came out to receive him but the Christian faithful of Syria.

What a remarkable welcome😍

[Catholic Answers @catholiccom]

"We have no record of a pope for 100 years after Peter died."

Tell that to St. Irenaeus.

Sure, nobody in the first century was issuing press releases for each new pontiff. But by A.D. 180, St. Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons, writing about a church 600 miles from his own, names every man who'd held Peter's chair, in order (Against Heresies, Book 3, chapter 3):

Linus
Cletus
Clement
Evaristus
Alexander
Sixtus
Telesphorus
Hyginus
Pius
Anicetus
Soter
Eleutherius

Irenaeus is writing 114 years after the apostles died. That's about the same length of time separating us from the Ford Model T. Try telling people the Model T came with a CD player and see how fast someone's grandmother corrects you. If the papacy were actually a late invention, Irenaeus's own readers (and the Gnostics who despised him) would've laughed him off the page.

"Peter also never served as supreme pontiff in Rome."

Peter signs off his own letter "from Babylon" (1 Pet. 5:13), which was the early Church's nickname for Rome under persecution.

Clement of Rome (named above), writing around A.D. 96, references Peter's martyrdom as something that happened "in our own generation." (1 Clement, chapter 5). That's living memory.

In his Letter to the Romans (A.D. 110), Ignatius of Antioch remarked that he could not command the Roman Christians the way Peter and Paul once did; such a comment makes sense only if Peter had been a leader, if not the leader, of the church in Rome.

And in 1968, archaeologists confirmed what Christians had claimed for 1,900 years: Peter's bones, beneath the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica, in a tomb first-century believers had already marked as his. Historian Eamon Duffy calls this shrine "overwhelming evidence of a very early Roman belief that Peter had died in or near the Vatican Circus" (Saints and Sinners, p. 8).

"The Church was born in Jerusalem."

True! And Jerusalem had a single bishop too, James. "One city, one shepherd" was the pattern everywhere, including the mother church.

Peter's authority was never competing with Christ's. It's just the way he set it up.

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

Like I’ve always said, Spanish hacienda homes are the most welcoming homes ever built.

The courtyard open to the sky, the verandah shading the entrance, the bougainvillea climbing the columns, everything about them pulls you in before you even cross the threshold. Thick lime walls that keep the heat out without electricity. Terracotta roofs that last a century without replacing. Courtyards where children grow up and plants and people share the same air. Colombia, Mexico and Peru built entire cities this way.

Now people are tearing these traditions down to build sealed glass boxes with nothing inside them and calling it modern. A home with no courtyard, no shade, no verandah and no welcome is not minimal. It is just cold.

[Ty Ngachira @anto_ty]

There is a mistake Africa's intellectual class should learn from their western counterparts. Raila understood it.

Progressives disdain for religion really hurts their messaging. By seeing it as beneath them, they leave the language of hope to their opponents.

Never ask why the other side can move ordinary people with symbols while they are still explaining policy PDFs.

They need symbols large enough to carry grief, hope, sacrifice, and the dream that tomorrow might redeem today.

[Strathmore Business School (SBS) @SbsKenya_]

The Kenya Health Human Resource Advisory Council (KHHRAC) officially unveils its 2025–2030 Strategic Plan at Strathmore University Business School.

A significant step toward strengthening Kenya’s healthcare workforce and shaping the future of health systems.
#KHHRAC

[niciaos @niCiaos]

I don't know whether this is real. But if it is then it's a good representation of what we tell each other, 'so long as you secure the bag it doesn't matter. ' Soul matters. Souls matter.

[ONJOLO KENYA🇰🇪 @onjolo_kenya]

"They came to us and requested to host Ebola Patients. We gave them some 375 million dollars and they were so happy. Ebola is very dangerous."~ President Donald Trump.

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[Ramah Nyang @Ramah_Nyang]

There’s fiscal indiscipline, and then there’s what Kenya’s Finance Ministry (@KeTreasury) does - sneaking in a second Supplementary Budget just two weeks before the end of the financial year.

The Executive wants to raise spending by KES 18.24 billion ($140.8 million). Where that last-minute money is going?

🏛️ @StateHouseKenya: Requesting an extra KES 1 billion.
👤 The Deputy President: Seeking authorization for KES 200 million more.
🛡️ Internal Security Ministry: Demanding another KES 1.55 billion.
📚 Education Ministry (@EduMinKenya): Requesting an additional KES 1.5 billion—all of it earmarked for “Quality Assurance and Standards.”

This mismatch between spending forecasts and execution reality is nothing new. In 2022, the Treasury projected that the fiscal deficit for FY 25/26 would drop below 4%. Instead, it has ballooned to 6.4%, with next year’s forecast looking just as dismal at 5.5%.

With a track record this patchy, can Kenya plausibly hold onto the B3 credit rating upgrade it got from @moodysratings in January?

As David Rogovic told me, while that upgrade reflected "lower near-term default risk," the rating remains constrained by weak points impossible to ignore: a massive fiscal deficit, a persistent inability to rein in spending, and dangerously weak debt affordability.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Eureka!! Hope you all are enjoying the World Cup

[Rohit @heyrohitai]

INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.

This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.

Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.

[Mn. Jaime Mercant Simó @JaimeMercant]

Una de las «perlas» que nos ha dejado el papa León XIV ha sido esta sencilla, pero profunda, definición del perdón.

Dice que perdonar no significa olvidar el mal padecido ni permitir que siga sucediendo, sino liberarnos del resentimiento y del odio que dominarían nuestra vida. Con dicha enseñanza, el romano pontífice no está negando el carácter gratuito y generoso del perdón, pero lo está afrontando desde una perspectiva realista y sobrenatural, alejado de todo voluntarismo forzado y estéril.

En definitiva, conviene tener esta enseñanza en su debida cuenta, puesto que perdonar al prójimo es condición de posibilidad para que el alma viva en paz y para que también Dios perdone nuestros pecados.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

The horror film “Obsession” is a surprise hit at the box office this summer. Made for around one million dollars, it has already grossed over a hundred and fifty million. But it's not only a financial success; it's also a spiritually quite interesting film. What drives the plot is a young man's ardent desire to be loved by the woman whom he loves. Seeking a gift for Nikki in an occult store, Bear finds a device that advertises itself as “One Wish Willow.” If you break the stick and make a wish, it will come true. In his desperation, he follows the instructions, and it works like a charm. The previously diffident Nikki becomes totally devoted to the delighted Bear. All his dreams, it seems, have come true. Then things go, shall we say, south. I won't spoil any more of the plot. Suffice it to say that Nikki proceeds to devour the young man and push him toward despair.

Throughout this film, I kept thinking of Oscar Wilde's famous line: “the only thing worse than not getting what you want is getting what you want.” The spiritual issue here is one that the masters have recognized for centuries and one that stands at the very heart of Biblical revelation: if you tie your deepest desire to anything or anyone other than God, you will find, not satisfaction, but destruction. This is the moral teaching behind the great Shema prayer: “Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God is Lord alone.” Jesus reiterates this when he says, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and all your strength.” The psalmist affirms it when he sings, “Only in God will my soul be at rest.”

During the rite of Confirmation, I ask the young people a series of questions, the first of which is “do you renounce Satan and all his works and empty promises?” Up and down the ages, Satan has made the same empty promise: I will give you something less than God and it will make you happy. In point of fact, it will ruin you, and the more you seek to acquire it, the unhappier you will become. What becomes clear in the course of “Obsession” is that the owners of the occult shop where Bear bought the fateful wish-willow are in fact involved with very dark spiritual powers. In my conversations with exorcists, I hear over and over again that those who get ensnared by the devil commence by dabbling in the occult.

“Obsession” is a good horror movie. If you like the genre, and you're not too squeamish, go see it. For it won't just scare you; it will offer some important spiritual truths.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[niciaos @niCiaos]

Hate watching like a normal human being. #Wantam means something different for the next 90 minutes.

[Eric Njiru ⚽️ @EricNjiiru]

Exciting way of announcing the FIFA World Cup 2026 squad by Senegal 🇸🇳

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Gospel of the Day (John 17,11b-19)

Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed, saying: "Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are.
When I was with them I protected them in your name that you gave me, and I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled.
But now I am coming to you. I speak this in the world so that they may share my joy completely.
I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.
I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the evil one.
They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.
Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth.
As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.
And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth."

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[Ty Ngachira @anto_ty]

The way he stepped forward. He refused to be used for a photo opp.

"Presence is not submission....wacha niongee"

[MrCasey @MrCasey62]

“The truly blessed are not the ones who can work miracles or see angels. The truly blessed are the ones who can see their own sins.”

~ St. Anthony the Great

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Shortly after becoming Catholic I confided in a friend that I didn’t feel like I was “getting that much out of Mass”

I will never forget his response, “that’s OK. It’s not about you.” In five seconds it was the most powerful spiritual insight I have ever received.