Mindelo, 07 March, 2022 / 11:20 am (ACI Africa).
The re-introduction of Moral and Catholic Religious Education (EMRC) in schools in the Island nation of Cape Verde is expected to contribute toward the “integral formation” of learners, a Catholic Priest has said.
In 2019, the government of Cape Verde announced the re-introduction of moral and religious education in secondary education in an experimental phase in 13 institutions in the country, VOA News reported. The subject had been removed from the school curriculum soon after Cape Verde gained its independence in 1975.
“The re-introduction of the discipline of Catholic moral religious education in schools over the past two years, was made possible thanks to a legal agreement between the Holy See and the Cape Verdean government,” the Coordinator of the Commission for EMRC in Cape Verde’s Mindelo Diocese, Fr. Paulo Borges Vaz, has been quoted as saying in an interview with Vatican News reported February 28.
With the introduction of EMRC, Fr. Vaz says, “The Catholic Church wants to contribute to the integral formation of the human person and help the Cape Verdean nation itself to train citizens with an integral formation.”
“Parents know that moral and Catholic religious education classes help their children with integral human formation” Fr. Vaz says in the Vatican news report, and adds, “These educational classes contribute to one’s behavior, to one’s integral development.”
