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Kigali (Fides Service)- “We share the concern of the Church in Spain and indeed all over the world for this attack on the family which is an institution of natural law” Rwandan Bishop Augustin Misago of Gikongoro told Fides voicing solidarity with the June 18 pro-family demonstration in Spain which has the support of the local Church.
“Seen from the African point of view legislation which gives same sex unions the status of a natural family appears outlandish to be frank” Bishop Misago said. “This sort of thing could never happen here in Africa, the idea is completely foreign to our culture and mentality”.
“What is more” the Bishop of Gikongoro said, “as African Christians today we look with dismay at Europe for so many centuries the beacon of Christianity and now slipping ever further down the slope of de-Christianisation and moral relativism”.
Bishop Misago recalls the importance of the family in Africa: “for African culture the family is central, it is very important and in fact it was the African Synod and the post-synodal exhortation “Ecclesia in Africa” which first proposed the model of Church-family-of-God. And a major priority for the Church here in the Great Lakes region is to guarantee support our homes and families the foundations stones on which she stands”. (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides 16/6/2005 righe 23 parole 254)
