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Ministering to vulnerable people in Kipaka and Kayuyu parishes

Data: 23/12/2024

The above realities explain why communities are highly vulnerable, with many families not knowing the future. A lack of hope always marks the responses to greetings from families and individuals. For example, “Magumu tu, Njala, tunavumiliya, mzuri Kidogo, tuko tu…..”. [ only problems, hunger, we push ourselves, somewhat okay, just there…].

23rd December in the life of Charles Cardinal Lavigerie

Data: 23/12/2024

Conference given at Rome in the church of the Gesu (22nd December 1888)
If I cannot treat this grave question with all the details it would require, I will at least say what is necessary, and will try to make up for the rest by a clarity that, I hope, will enlighten your minds. And first of all, is there any obligation for the Christian peoples, for you Catholics, in the measure possible, to come to the aid of populations so cruelly, oppressed? On this point, there cannot be any doubt to the eyes of faith. It is the law itself of love, of Christian solidarity, that is to say, of the whole Gospel.

22nd December in the life of Charles Cardinal Lavigerie

Data: 22/12/2024

Letter to King Léopold II of Belgium (27th December 1884)
Your Majesty,
It is not simply out of obedience to the old custom of the Sacred College that I come today to present to Your Majesty my respectful good wishes and my devotion. I cherish only too well the memory of your kindness to me for me not to hold this duty as a debt of gratitude. I am especially pleased, Sire, to have this opportunity to thank Your Majesty for the benevolence you have shown this year towards the Society of the missionaries of which I am the founder for the setting up of a house at Woluwé whose purpose is the recruitment of Belgian citizens who dedicate themselves to the missions in Equatorial Africa.

30th anniversary of the death of Blessed Charles Deckers in Tizi Ouzou in Algeria

Data: 21/12/2024

Homily by Mons Luc Terlinden, Archbishop of Malines-Brussels, delivered on 15 December 2024, during the celebration of the Eucharist in the church of Notre Dame de la Cambre in Ixelles in memory of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Blessed Charles Deckers, M.Afr., and the 30th anniversary of his death in Tizi Ouzou in Algeria. This homily is followed by a message of thanks delivered by Blessed Charles’ nephew, Gilles Deckers.

21st December in the life of Charles Cardinal Lavigerie

Data: 21/12/2024

Letter to Bishop Livinhac in Uganda (12 December 1886)
You will see, moreover, from the ordinance that this is only a change of titles and that basically the provicars are simply your vicars and therefore your subordinates. Father Coulbois, in fact, has been appointed pro-vicar of Upper Congo and Father Ludovic Girault pro-vicar of Unyanyembe, but both remain under the direct jurisdiction of one of the two Apostolic Vicars of Tanganyika and Nyanza, so that the first is the substitute for the pro-vicariate of Upper Congo, and the second for the vicariate of Unyanyembe and that both of you keep, with regard to these territories thus separated into pro-vicariates and on the missionaries who are there, the same essential rights and higher jurisdiction as before.

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