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The Bishop of Burundi’s Bururi Diocese is upbeat about the Diocese’s newly inaugurated Laudato Si-Palms University, and hopes that the institution will contribute to the country’s prosperity.
Members of the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa (ACEAC) comprising Catholic Bishops in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Rwanda have reflected on the security situation in their respective countries and called upon the people of God to foster peace in their respective countries.
Members of the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa (ACEAC) comprising Catholic Bishops in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Rwanda have renewed “alternative paths” to peace in their region.
Not everyone who qualifies to join the Seminary in Burundi is accepted by formation houses. Major Seminaries in one of the world’s poorest countries have been forced to regulate the number of those they enroll owing to capacity challenges.
Major Seminaries in Burundi have been forced to regulate their enrollment as the number of young people seeking to join Priestly and Religious Life continues to rise in the Eastern African country.
Members of the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Central Africa (ACEAC) comprising Catholic Bishops in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Rwanda have highlighted three challenges the people of God in their respective countries are facing, which they say need to be addressed for peace to prevail.
Pope Francis has accepted the retirement of Bishop Jean Ntagwarara from the pastoral care of the Catholic Diocese of Rubanza in Burundi and has appointed Bishop Georges Bizimana as the Apostolic Administrator.
Members of the Religious Institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) in Burundi are boosting learning at their institution in the country’s Catholic Diocese of Ngozi in a partnership that is realizing “access to better nutrition”.
Catholic Bishops in Rwanda and Burundi have expressed their “solidarity and spiritual closeness” with the people of God in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) amid reports of persistent violent conflicts and deaths.
In Burundi, Carmelite Sisters of the Infant Jesus are referred to as “mothers” owing to their relationship with locals who are still healing from decades of civil strife.
Pope Francis on Saturday, March 26 welcomed Burundi’s President, Évariste Ndayishimiye, at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City to a meeting during which the two leaders discussed the contribution of the Church to the growth of the East African country.