Kinshasa, 17 January, 2021 / 1:55 pm (ACI Africa).
The leadership of the Pontifical Charity organization, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) International is supporting the formation of 63 Seminarians in Chad and in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
In a Wednesday, January 13 report obtained by ACI Africa, the leadership of ACN announced that it had set aside 31,500 Euros to meet some of the costs of forming the Seminarians drawn from Chad’s Mongo Vicariate and DRC’s Inongo Diocese.
In the landlocked North-Central African nation of Chad where Christians make up one percent of the 3.5 million population, ACN’s leadership is supporting the formation of six Seminarians drawn from the expansive Mongo Vicariate.
“They know the country and the life in the villages. They will take the Gospel message into people’s lives,” the Vicar General of the Vicariate that measures 540,000 square kilometers has been quoted as saying in the January 13 report.
With a population of 5,750 Catholics, the Vicariate “is the size of France, its six parishes enormous, the road networks utterly inadequate,” officials of the 73-year-old Catholic charity say and add, “The long years of drought have resulted in sparse harvests, while the coronavirus pandemic has meant extra expense.”