AFRICA/RWANDA - Helping married couples live marriage according to God's plan

Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - The Fédération Africaine d’Action Familiale (FAAF), whose mission is to help couples live their love and parenthood in keeping with God's plan, recently organised a workshop to draft a Handbook of Family Values, based on the Christian vision of married life and family planning. At the Foyer de Charité at Rebero, in Kigali, Rwanda, from 4 to 9 November 2007 a team of professors from the John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family in Benin and leading members of FAAF from 10 different countries, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, France, Madagascar, Maurizio, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Senegal and Togo, reflected on the Teaching of the Church in order to identify ways of helping married Catholics realise their identity and live the sacrament of matrimony to the full.
Among those present for the opening ceremony on Sunday November 4, Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Anselmo Guido Pecorari, and Bishop Kizito Bahujimihigo, of the diocese of Ruhengeri, president of the Rwandan Bishops' Commission for the Family. During the ceremony Mgr. Jean Laffitte, vice president of the Pontifical Academy for Life gave a conference on Marriage and Family, natural realities and events of grace”. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 21/11/2007; righe 15, parole 217)