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Dakar (Agenzia Fides) – The West African Continental Meeting of the International Forum for Catholic Action (FIAC) opens today, on the theme: “Life, bread, peace and liberty. For a prosperous, peaceful, reconciled Africa”. According to information sent to Fides, representatives from the Catholic Action Movement in Benin, Burkina Fasu, Burundi, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Mali and Niger, are meeting to discuss the options opened up by the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops, held in the Vatican in 2009, and on the specific role of the laity at the service of reconciliation, justice and peace on the African continent. Senegal, host country, will be represented by 70 attendees from 7 dioceses. Also present will be representatives from FIAC in Italy, Spain and Romania. Among others participating will be: Card. Théodore-Adrien Sarr, Arcivescovo di Dakar; Bishop Mariano Montemayor, Apostolic Nuncio in Senegal, Capo Verde, Guinea Bissau and Apostolic Delegate in Mauritania; Bishop Giorgio Biguzzi of Makeni (Sierra Leone); Bishop Barthélemy Adoukonou, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture. The meeting will close on 23 January, and continues a series of continental meetings organised by FIAC throughout 2010 in preparation for the VI Ordinary Assembly, planned for August 2012. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 19/1/2011)
