eight years is that the bishops of the United States, through the national collection of them sponsored by the Solidarity Fund for the Church in Africa, supporting projects in the continent with the release of approximately 291 scholarships worth a total of six million euro.
Over the years, was funded education of catechetical lay in Namibia, the formation of pastoral care for the sick in Uganda; workshops on justice, peace and development West Africa; assistance to Catholic radio free in Liberia, the formation of Catholic teachers in Ghana and the Centre for young people traumatized by civil war, "The action of Thalita Kum" in the Republic of Congo.
again this year, reports the Zenit, the project was launched: it is titled "You can join us" and focuses on the promotion of education as a major East African pastoral need, target agreed on basis of the results of a study supervised by the U.S. Bishops' Conference in collaboration with the School of Mendoza Business at the University of Notre Dame and the Episcopal Conferences of the area.
"The Church in Africa is blessed with a faith rooted in hope, with the survival achieved in the midst of critical challenges and unique faces daily every parish, every village and every country - said Msgr. John Ricard, bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Fla., and chairman of the Subcommittee on the Church in Africa was born within the episcopate - all African countries are rich in culture, human resources and clear values.
The bishop, however, also stressed the problems of the continent, such as AIDS, which threatens the lives of millions of people, war, oppression, extreme poverty and famine, "Faith is what sustains the people who must face these realities," said .
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