 14 years of slaughter in the seminar Buta, Burundi: 40 seminarians killed for not being separated from their brothers OMPRESS-BURUNDI (04/11/1928) Next Saturday is the age of 14 a tragedy. On April 30, 1997, a large number of rebels of the CNDD (National Council for the Defence of Democracy) attacked the small seminary of Buta, Burundi. It was the era of ethnic massacres, the brutal murders being Hutu or Tutsi, being of one race or another. The rebels killed 40 seminarians from 15 to 20 years. The murderers asked the seminarians to separate between Hutus and Tutsis. They refused, so he killed them all. If the seminarians were separated into two groups would have betrayed him, above all, his vocation, and all the Hutus and the Tutsis who had sought refuge and an island of peace in that small Catholic seminary in his flight. Read more .. . $ 400,000 will be possible to double the number of seminarians in Kananga, Democratic Republic of Congo OMPRESS-REP. DEM. OF CONGO (03/05/1911) The major seminary "Kabwe Christ Roi" was built to accommodate 120 seminarians. Today is the seminary of philosophy at the Diocese of Katanga, in the southern Congo near the border with Angola, but its history goes back to 1934. It was the first seminar of the Congo and it went great figures of American life, both religious and civil. leave home and country to follow the vocation to the priesthood OMPRESS-ROMA (05/04/1911) The diocese and vicariate apostolic mission areas sometimes can not maintain the entire infrastructure a seminar, especially for trainers and teachers are concerned. Choose to send their seminarians to seminaries in other dioceses or other countries. However, for these churches source to travel costs are a burden that costs faced. Read more ... Extension seminars on missions: they increase vocations OMPRESS-ROMA (05/05/1911) One of the objectives of the Society of St. Peter the Apostle, one of the four Pontifical Mission Societies , is to provide the dioceses of the mission territories the necessary means to keep running its seminars. It is therefore reason of joy arriving requests to finance the expansion of these seminars. Read more ... Heat to a English bishop in the steppes of Kazakhstan OMPRESS-ALMATY (KAZAKHSTAN) (06/05/1911) On 5 March this year, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Bishop of Almaty, Kazakhstan, the English priest Jose Luis Mumbiela Sierra, Aragon, born in Monzón, Huesca. Until that time was the rector of Mater Ecclesiae Mary Seminary in Karaganda. This seminar is a real hope for the Church in this country, located in central Asia and five times the size of Spain and only 16 million inhabitants. Read more ... The generosity of the faithful priestly vocations: $ 400,000 for two seminars OMPRESS Vietnam-VIETNAM (05/10/1911) In the past the missionaries came from Europe to Vietnam. Today, the Church in Vietnam is sending missionaries. One in five Vietnamese priests out of the country. Of the 5,200 priests, 1,200 are scattered in nearly 100 countries. and vocations continue to rise. So far, the government of Vietnam did not allow young people entering seminaries. Read more ...   |
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