Kinshasa, 19 May, 2021 / 7:00 pm (ACI Africa).
The newly created Catholic University in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is meant to respond to the needs of the “society and the Church”, the Local Ordinary of Kinshasa Archdiocese that is behind the initiative has said.
On May 14, Fridolin Cardinal Ambongo signed a decree creating the Catholic institution of higher learning under the name, Omnia University.
“We hope the newly created Omnia Omnibus University (Omnia University) will respond more closely and primarily to the needs of society and the Church of Kinshasa,” Cardinal Ambongo said during the event held at the Cardinal Monsengwo School Complex in DRC’s capital city, Kinshasa.
The Congolese Cardinal noted that the university has a “great pastoral importance,” adding that the Archdiocese of Kinshasa that “accompanies a large number of children and young people, wants to offer them a full course of education, which seems to me to be more responsible pastorally, that is to say, to provide the young people of our diocese with a full support, from kindergarten through primary, secondary to university.”
Also speaking at the event, the president of the ad hoc committee responsible for the university, Prof. Albert Malukusa called for a collaborative approach in running the Catholic institution saying, “This young university counts on the support of the Clergy and the faithful of the Archdiocese. Omnia University should reflect the vitality of the Archdiocese of Kinshasa.”
