OUR
COMMITMENT FOR JUSTICE AND PEACEOUR
COMMITMENT FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE
1. Being with a specific group of people
whose situation draws us as Missionaries of Africa.
(Commitment to Justice and Peace in the broad sense of the word is closer to commitment in fracture zones.)- Unemployed youth and street children:
Projects at Orange Farm in South Africa (Philippe Docq, Louis Blondel), Sharing Kampala, Uganda, Child in the Sun
Project, Mbezi, Dar-es-Salaam and several little projects of support for children and youth in different parishes such as Manzese in Dar-es-Salaam, Katuba, Lubumbashi, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (Pierre Bene)
- Men and women afflicted by AIDS and their families, such as Youth Alive Project, Dar-es-Salaam (Frank Rossmann), Heal the Healers Project, Nairobi and in the Sudan (with Ludwig Peschen), the Inkanyezi Project, Orange Farm (Guido Bourgeois) Buyenzi Project, Bujumbura,(Armand Galay, Young Missionary of Africa from Philippines).
2. Action and awareness to analyse the causes and sources of injustice and poverty (Commitment to Justice and Peace in the strict and proper sense of the term)
- On Parish level (pastoral activity in Christian communities):
by means of catechesis, this action aims to awaken this aspect of Justice and Peace in the Christian life of every baptised person.
Through the Basic Christian Community, contribute to opening eyes and ears to concrete situations marked by forms of injustice such as certain so-called traditional practices, discrimination, or prisoners.
- Inspire action and presence in Civil Society,
with a particular concern to educate Christians and others towards an effective commitment. In Bukavu this is by means of ASUMA.- Practise what is known as 'dialogue of life', i.e., dialogue between Christians and followers of other religions - ATR and Islam in particular -, Christians belonging to other churches or other NMR, with a view to working together to solve economic or social problems directly affecting the participants or the people in their surroundings.
- Training Sessions,
either in the parishes
or in the Centre for Social Concern in Malawi (Jos Kuppens); (Zambia next?)
3. A special commitment at the international, even intercontinental level to be where political and other decisions are taken which affect Africa..
- The AEFJN Office, together with around forty other Congregations and Societies of Apostolic Life strive to do this work at the level of the European Union. (Luc Coppejans)
- This Office has national correspondents in a number of countries: Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.
It is also represented in Washington DC.
- Our confreres Serge St. Arneault, Jos Kuppens, (in Malawi, Africa)
and Maurice Oudet (in Burkina Faso), are organised at this level as well.
4. At the level of the Society of Missionaries of Africa
a number of confreres motivate, encourage, inform, and advise leads to follow for their confreres and co-ordinate in the 3 above-mentioned areas.
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