Continental Assembly of Anglophone Africa and Mozambique

Fr. Sylvester Hategek’Imana, provincial superior and continental coordinator for the sector of vocations promotion and basic formation in the sub-continent of Anglophone Africa and Mozambique, opened the meeting by warmly welcoming all the participants. As external facilitator, we invited the Salesian Don Lazar Arasu, SDB, who gave a good conference on the situation of the youth in Africa today and the techniques of vocations accompaniment and discernment among the Salesians.

For his part, Fr. John Baptist Keraryo Opargiw, General secretary of formation, in his opening speech thanked the participants for their willingness and availability, encouraging them to draw maximum profit from this assembly. Fr. John Baptist reminded the participants that this sub-continent has a special place in the history of the Comboni mission and charism, since it is indeed the cradle of our Comboni Family. The Institute has invested heavily in personnel and in the many formation houses in this region and rightly expects a quality commitment and good fruits at all levels.

There was a total of 26 participants with all the circumscriptions represented. The Acts of the Assembly and the Conclusions will be published in the near future.