Reconstructing civil society in light of Catholic social teaching in the city of Bukavu (South Kivu Province in the DRC): a program for the lay Catholic political leaders

Kamanzi Pascal Kasanziki

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Reconstructing civil society in light of Catholic social teaching in the city of Bukavu (South Kivu Province in the DRC): a program for the lay Catholic political leaders

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Kamanzi Pascal Kasanziki. Reconstructing Civil Society In Light of Catholic Social Teaching In the City of Bukavu (south Kivu Province In the Drc): a Program for the Lay Catholic Political Leaders. Catholic Theological Union. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/ddd5c243-b475-4728-9054-7e1bde7eab36.

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K. P. Kasanziki. Reconstructing civil society in light of Catholic social teaching in the city of Bukavu (South Kivu Province in the DRC): a program for the lay Catholic political leaders. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/ddd5c243-b475-4728-9054-7e1bde7eab36

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Kamanzi Pascal Kasanziki. Reconstructing Civil Society In Light of Catholic Social Teaching In the City of Bukavu (south Kivu Province In the Drc): a Program for the Lay Catholic Political Leaders. Catholic Theological Union. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/ddd5c243-b475-4728-9054-7e1bde7eab36.

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Kamanzi Pascal Kasanziki

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The mission of evangelization in the city of Bukavu and the Democratic Republic of Congo has been a success for having attracted the majority of the population to Christianity. The aim of the first missionaries of making the Great Lakes Region of Africa the heartland of Christianity has been somehow fulfilled. The God of Jesus Christ remains the ultimate reference of the people as they express it in various situations: whether in time of joy, especially the time of suffering, or even in the everywhere on the buses etc. In addition there is a great participation in the sacraments that is stunning and observable on a daily basis reaching its apex on the Sunday celebrations. Unfortunately the socio-poolitical structure has completely collapsed to the point that most observers question themselves as to why the complete lack of witness in the public arena. The question is very challenging because most of the political leaders are practicing Catholics. Evidently there is a great need of rediscovering the inspirational values of Catholic Social Teaching and make it the focus of the new evangelization in the twenty-first century. The situation of unending suffering of the people of Bukavu and the whole DRC calls for a quick action to educate the consciences of all the catholic political leaders and the laity to promote the common good and foster good government that will ensure the greater good of the whole nation. It requires a new project of society for which catholic Social Teaching is a great resource in a city/country where the majority of leaders are Catholics. The urgent task is to foster a new pastoral action that gears at educating and empowering the laity to rediscover their noble mission that is to become the 'light of the world' and the 'salt of the earth' in the temporal sphere. They are called to be the ambassadors of Christ in the temporal sphere.

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