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Spiritual Directors International provides an online repository to match those who wish to receive spiritual direction, or seekers, with those who provide this form of spiritual companionship. [5] As an organization, it supports its members on their own professional paths, without imposing any single belief system, professional certification ...
The Marianists operate Our Lady of Nazareth primary school and the IMANI counseling,Ujamaa Family Centre, Job Creation training Program, and child care center in Nairobi, and the Marianist Development Project, a similar institution, in Mombasa. They serve members of the Sudanese Diocese of Rumbec in northwest Kenya.
Kianda School offers daily Mass, weekly meditations and annual spiritual retreats for its students. Inspired by the spirit of Opus Dei, the offering up of various aspects of daily life to God is encouraged. The annual spiritual retreats and daily mass are optional. The tutorial system: the school considers the parents to be the primary educators.
The Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) was founded by Shastri Yagnapurushdas in 1907. [2] [3] The organization continued to expand its activities internationally through health fairs, environmental activities, youth development campaigns, and worldwide "walkathon" fundraising campaigns to benefit local, national and international charities.
A spiritual teacher of Islam as it is taught in the West Africa and Maghreb, The word comes from the Berber concept of Saint. The "marabout" is known as "Sayyed" (سيد) to the Arabic speaking Maghribians. Marja: In Shi'a Islam, The name means source to follow. Mawlawi: A Persian word for teacher meaning Master. Mawlānā
Aga Khan IV succeeded to the office of the 49th hereditary Imam as spiritual and administrative leader of the Shia faith-rooted Nizari Isma'ili Muslim supranational union in 1957. [2] [14] Ismailis consist of an estimated 25 to 30 million adherents (about 20% of the world's Shia Muslim population). [15] [16] [17] [18]
Five sangomas in KwaZulu-Natal. Traditional healers of Southern Africa are practitioners of traditional African medicine in Southern Africa.They fulfil different social and political roles in the community like divination, healing physical, emotional, and spiritual illnesses, directing birth or death rituals, finding lost cattle, protecting warriors, counteracting witchcraft and narrating the ...
The director listens and asks questions to assist the directee in his or her process of reflection and spiritual growth. Advocates of Spiritual direction claim that it develops a deeper awareness with the spiritual aspect of being human, and that it is neither psychotherapy nor counseling nor financial planning.