Jésus, l’Homme de la rencontre

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. He lived for almost 50 years in the Sahara, working as a teacher and with a copperplate craftsman in Ghardaïa. Vicar General and then Bishop from 2004 to 2017 of this immense territory, he visited the small dispersed Christian communities and wove solid and fraternal relationships with many Muslims. Currently, he is a member of the French National Service for Relations with Muslims as an expert.

In his book, Claude Rault meditates on Mission in the Gospel according to Saint John: a Gospel in which the word “evangelise” appears only once, but in which the mission of Jesus takes place in each encounter.