{"id":3518,"date":"2007-01-11T09:32:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T09:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/01\/around-the-world.html"},"modified":"2007-01-11T09:32:06","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T09:32:06","slug":"around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/01\/around-the-world.html","title":{"rendered":"Around the world…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aid to the Church in Need is a group I blog on regularly, partly because I believe they do good work, and partly because they have such an interesting website – regularly update with news from around the globe and such.<\/a><\/p>\n

For example, three recent news bits on their work:<\/p>\n

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A first delivery of 20,000 copies of Aid to the Church in Need\u00b4s (ACN) Bibles for children \u201cGod speaks to His children\u201d is currently being transferred to the Czech Republic. 10,000 of the copies are meant for the use of Hradec Kralove diocese, while the other 10,000 copies are for the remaining dioceses of the country. The new Czech translation of the Bible for children contains 30 pictures, in addition to the 49 already existing in the book.<\/p>\n

According to the Bishop of Hradec Kralove, Mgr Dominic Duka, the Bibles delivered to his diocese are meant to be promoters of a special Year of the Bible that he has declared for 2007. \u201cAlthough the religious revival has slowed down a little bit, the arrival of the Bible for children will certainly help to keep it alive,\u201d the bishop stated. Also, ACN`s Little Catechism \u201cI believe\u201d is currently being translated into Czech.<\/p>\n

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Khartoum.<\/strong> \u201cThe position of our archdiocese is strong mainly due to the support we received from Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) over the past few years,\u201d Auxiliary Bishop Daniel Marok Kur Adwok told Christian Klyma, ACN\u2019s Austrian public relations officer, recently when Klyma visited him in Khartoum. \u201cWhile 25 years ago there was only 1 priest in Khartoum, nowadays we have 121. Our archdiocese has 30 parishes and 123 centres where the Eucharist is being regularly celebrated. Of the archdiocese\u2019s about 18 million inhabitants, more than 900,000 are Catholics,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

With regard to an envisaged transfer of St Paul\u2019s seminary to Juba in the south of Sudan, the Bishop said that it was due to be transferred \u201cin 2007 \u2013 starting with the Philosophy seminarians.\u201d At the moment, 7 teachers are giving lessons to 73 candidates. Khartum archdiocese also has the \u201cSave the Saveables\u201d project: It currently has 65 schools with some 33.000 pupils and 1050 teachers. The project tries to give adequate education to schoolchildren who have come to Khartoum fleeing from the south of the country, where since 9. 1. 2005 a peace agreement is vigil. <\/p>\n

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With about 16.000 Catholics, the Catholic minority is just less than 1 percent of the country\u2019s 2 million people. There are some 11.500 Greek Catholics and the rest is Latin rite,\u201d Father Dr Emmerich Tempfli said Jan. 9., referring to a recent trip to Macedonia. \u201cThis small Catholic minority needs our support,\u201d he stated and explained: \u201cTogether, they have 25 churches and chapels. 15 priests \u2013 both Greek and Latin \u2013 are serving the faithful. 11 seminarians are training for the priesthood.\u201d He added that 6 of the seminarians were studying in Rome, 4 in Fulda and 1 in Zagreb.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Several Senegalese dioceses have asked the international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) for copies of its Bible for children \u201cGod speaks to His children\u201d and \u2013 given Senegal\u2019s illiteracy rate of about 64 percent \u2013 posters with motives from the book, as well as copies of the Little Catechism \u201cI believe.\u201d Senegal, a western African country, has a total population of about 11 million. Only 5 percent are Catholics, while some 95 percent are Muslims.<\/p>\n

Mgr Ernest Sambou, Bishop of Saint-Louis, in the north of the country, stated in a letter to ACN: \u201cThe book \u2018God speaks to His children\u2019 will be an indispensable tool to discover the word of God for the children. It will also help their formation and education.\u201d Regarding the Little Catechism, Bishop Sambou added: \u201cIt is indeed simple and clear, so it can help every Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n

ACN intents to send copies of its Bible for children in basic French (\u201cFrancais fondamental\u201d) and of the Little Catechism in French, Senegal\u2019s official language. But the bishops also asked for a translation of \u201cGod speaks to His children\u201d into Wolof, the nation\u2019s most widespread language, spoken by some 45 percent of the population.<\/p>\n

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More on the Little Catechism<\/a><\/p>\n

More on the Children’s Bible.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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