Never a boring moment!

Nevertheless, in this book you will find out that the missionary adventure sometimes leads us unwittingly to be explorers, travellers and occasional tourists, because of unexpected events and circumstances. Cardinal Lavigerie often quoted Terence, a 2nd century freed slave poet of North African origin: “I am a human being, and nothing human is foreign to me.” Indeed, our founder asked us to always start from the human dimension; this is what you will find in these stories and anecdotes.

Jésus, l’Homme de la rencontre

Jésus, l’Homme de la rencontre : Huit jours à l’école du Maître dans l’évangile de Jean P. Claude Rault, M.Afr. Bishop Claude Rault, born in Normandy in 1940, is a priest of the Society of Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers). After studying Arabic and Islamology at the PISAI in Rome, he was sent to Algeria. […]

Unique Amour en Toi, Unique Amour en Tous

Unique Amour en Toi, Unique Amour en Tous Père Jacques Cusset, M.Afr. There was “L’Amour au cœur du monde” in the 1990s, a purely autobiographical and youthful story! Then there was “Les chants de l’Amour”, a biblical presentation for current times, with the experience of catechesis in several parishes in France or elsewhere, at the […]

Meeting the Muslims: the contribution of the White Fathers

The journeys of Pope Francis to Abu Dhabi (February 2019) and Rabat (March 2019) cannot but challenge us on the historical depth of the relationship between the Catholic Church and Islam. Now if the Argentinean pope inscribed his journey in the footsteps of Saint Francis, commemorating the 800th anniversary of his meeting with Sultan Ayyûbide in

Africana: Botswana’s Good Governance

Botswana’s recent history is explained in the awareness of national identity, the rejection of the colonisers’ racial discrimination and the struggle for independence. But the struggle for independence is strengthened by appropriate economic and educational policies.
Three main factors help to understand Botswana’s recent history: the independence, the economy and the social policy.