AFRICA/DR CONGO - Kinshasa Diocesan Congress on the theme Living Basic Ecclesial Communities CEVB

Monday, 16 January 2006

Kinshasa (Fides Service) - ‘CEVB foundation of the Church-Family-of-God’ is the theme of the first session 17-20 January of a Diocesan Congress on Living Ecclesial Communities CEVB organised by the archdiocese of Kinshasa, capital of Democratic Congo.
The local Catholic news agency DIA said that in addition to 1,800 CEVB in the city there are many others in the surrounding rural areas of the diocese.
Participants at the Congress include pastoral workers and Basic Ecclesial Community leaders and members.
The aim of the congress is to discuss new guidelines for the pastoral care of Basic Ecclesial Communities. The findings will be gathered and processed and then discussed in the second session, 25 -28 April.
The diocesan commission for Basic Ecclesial Communities is responsible for the religious formation of Community leaders and also for civic formation in view of elections this year. (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides 16/1/2006 righe 20 parole 169)


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