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	Local Catholic Church History and Genealogy Research Guide and Worldwide Directory
		Introduction to the Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church.
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	home.att.net /~Local_Catholic (4749 words)

	Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria - A brief History of the Catholic Church in Nigeria
		It is remarkable that Catholics, firmly united around the clergy and having liturgy in the same language before Vatican II, did not break up along ethnic lines for their worship, as was the case with Anglicans and other Protestant groups.
		The emergence of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria as an organ of unity of the local churches makes concrete the remarkable co-operation that existed among the bishops of Nigeria before 1950 when a local hierarchy was established.
		Institutions like the Catholic Secretariat, the regional Major Seminaries, the National Missionary Seminary of St Paul, and the Catholic Institute of West Africa are all aspects of strengthening the "catholicity of the undivided church" and testify to the maturity of the Nigerian church.
	www.cbcn.org /aspscripts/page1.ASP (2229 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Stopping the Spread of HIV/AIDS
		Since the start of the epidemic, the Catholic Church has been present with her hospitals, treatment centres, parishes, the service of men and women religious, local aid organizations for the sick and concern for their problems.
		Thus the Catholic Church has been accused of lacking a sense of reality and of being irresponsible about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa because of her position regarding the use of prophylactics to prevent sexual contamination.
		She turns instead to the human and anthropological root of the problem, that is, to the level of respect for human sexuality, to the level of the values that determine the human growth of individual members of the human race.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=2946 (3912 words)

	Roman Catholicism in Kenya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Catholic Church in Kenya is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome.
		The Catholic Church is the world's largest Christian Church, and its largest religious grouping.
		There are an estimated 7 Million baptised Catholics in Kenya, approximately 23% of the population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Kenya (118 words)

	Catholic Pages Directory: » CATHOLIC CHURCH
		Pope Pius XII and the Theological Treatise on the Church
		Catholic Church in Africa Archbishop Isidore D'Souza of Cotonou, Benin is interviewed by Fr.
		Reinventing Religion The Catholic Church is besieged by many foes, among whom are the advocates of multiculturalism who demand that the Church soften, revise and even abandon certain of its doctrines.
	www.catholic-pages.com /dir/church.asp (514 words)

	USAID Benin: Health
		Benin is one of the few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in which the current HIV prevalence rate remains relatively low, currently around 4.1%.
		Benin's 1999 HIV prevalence rate of approximately 4.1% was more than 16 times greater than the 1986 rate of 0.25%.
		Given the permeability of the borders separating these countries, the prevalence of HIV and AIDS in Benin is undoubtedly being affected by the evolution of the disease in neighboring states.
	www.usaid.gov /bj/health/p-hiv.html (2007 words)

	Sub-Sahara African Christianity: A History of the Christian Church in Sub-Saharan Africa
		They have, by and large, retained the Roman Catholic Church’s stress on the unity and authority of the Church, and have, in the last half of the 20th century, taken their place as full and equal partners in the world-wide Roman Catholic Church.
		African Protestant churches range from the churches of the Anglican Communion, which have much in common with the Roman Catholic community to Pentecostal mission churches under African leadership, virtually indistinguishable from AICs, on the other.
		Catholic mission work tailed off through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to experience a resurgence in the 1840s, with the founding of the White Fathers and the Holy Ghost Fathers, just about the time that the Protestant missionary movement began to crest.
	www.bethel.edu /~letnie/AfricanChristianity/Sub-SaharaHomepage.html (1454 words)

	Roman Catholicism in Nigeria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Catholic Church in Nigeria is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome.
		The Roman Catholic Church is the world's largest Christian Church, and its largest religious grouping.
		There are an estimated 17 Million baptised Catholics in Nigeria, some 15% of the population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Nigeria (162 words)

	U.S. Catholic Bishops - Social Development & World Peace (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Catholic religious orders, congregations, and institutes, as well as diocesan programs for the sending of priests from the United States and the increasing service provided by American Catholic lay missionaries, all contribute to the witness of solidarity with the Church in Africa.
		Catholics managing U.S. and multinational corporations bear a special responsibility in the exercise of their professional obligations, particularly where the activities of their corporations might exacerbate conflict, corruption, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation in Africa.
		Individuals and groups within the Catholic Church in the United States are actively engaged with the Church in Africa in the promotion of human rights, debt relief, increased development assistance, demobilization of child soldiers, promotion of peace in troubled regions, and protection of the environment.
	www.nccbuscc.org /sdwp/africa.htm (9100 words)

	Pittsburgh Catholic Newspaper - News and Features
		Yet, Catholics in Pittsburgh have a strong connection to the Catholic Church in Benin through Father Andre Quenum, a 40-year-old Beninese priest who studied at Duquesne University for several years.
		Father Quenum returns to Pittsburgh occasionally, and when he does he tells a remarkable and inspiring story of the church’s ministry in Benin and the importance of the Catholic press in the faith and life of a developing country.
		The people of Benin, Father Quenum said, had remembered how the church was always on the side of the poor during the years of dictatorship, how the country’s leaders had been educated in Catholic schools and how Benin’s Catholic hospitals provided essential health care.
	www.pittsburghcatholic.org /newsarticles_more.phtml?id=2021 (1229 words)

	Church of God World Missions
		As a result, the Church of God is now opening a new mission in her city of Bamenda.
		This is a culturally-rich and historically-significant city that is still under the traditional influence of the Roman Catholic Church.
		However, there is a level of mistrust for churches and church leaders because in 1994 there were some clergy involved in the genocide.
	www.cogwm.org /news.cfm?sid=1706 (921 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Lyons
		In 1822 the Department of Ain was separated from the Archdiocese of Lyons to form the Diocese of Belley; the title of the suppressed church of Embrun was transferred to the Archdiocese of Aix, and the Archdiocese of Lyons and Vienne had henceforth as suffragans Langres, Autun, Dijon, St. Claude, and Grenoble.
		Saint Gebuin (Jubinus), who succeeded Humbert was the confidant of Gregory VII and contributed to the reform of the Church by the two councils of 1080 and 1082, at which were excommunicated Manasses of Reims, Fulk of Anjou, and the monks of Marmoutiers.
		The building of the churches of St. John and St. Justus was pushed forward with activity; he sent delegates even to England to solicit alms for this purpose and he consecrated the high altar in both churches.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09472a.htm (4004 words)

	Claverie, Pierre, Algeria, Catholic Church
		Pierre Claverie, Catholic Bishop of Oran and protagonist of Islamo-Christian dialogue, was assassinated by Islamic militants in a booby trap explosion at the entrance to his house.
		At first he joined a group of right-wing student activists from Algeria, protesting against the Catholic left and burning their newspapers, but gradually he began to see his opponents' point of view and to condemn the atrocities of the guerrilla OAS (Secret Organization of the Army) in the land of his birth.
		Almost his first acts as bishop were to donate a church to be a mosque and to turn his cathedral into a cultural centre, where his Muslim friends gave lectures and conferences.
	www.dacb.org /stories/algeria/claverie_pierre.html (1536 words)

	The Catholic Legate \| Dialogues
		The Catholic Church holds truth to be a matter of what conforms with reality and has always condemned the proposition that the truth of a statement depends on the number of people who happen to believe in it.
		Prior to DH many Catholic social theorists had assumed that false religion could be tolerated or suppressed by whim and that no moral limit existed to state interference in false religion.
		Before the 1960s, in a number of surviving Catholic nations, non-Catholics were only allowed to meet together for their rituals but could not worship in public, nor own churches, preach publicly or proselytize.
	www.catholic-legate.com /dialogues/sede1.html (3644 words)

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		BENIN CITY, Nigeria -- As rows of wooden ceiling fans whir uselessly against the 90-degree heat, Catholics dance in the church aisles, swaying slowly but methodically toward collection boxes for the third offering.
		In the past 30 years, the Roman Catholic Church has seen its ranks triple to more than 110 million in Africa, and the continent now accounts for 10 percent of the worldwide church population.
		Its explosive numbers are beginning to influence the broader church, as priests and nuns from Africa now work as missionaries in the United States and Western Europe to shore up what they view as an erosion of the faith.
	www.remnantofgod.org /art49.htm (1149 words)

	allAfrica.com: Benin: Promotion of Family a Priority of Catholic Mission, Bishop Says (Page 1 of 1)
		The family is at the centre of Catholic pastoral work in Benin, said Bishop Antoine Ganyé, president of the Catholic bishops' conference of Benin and bishop of Dassa-Zoumé.
		"The future of our church in Benin is to give priority to the family since the family is the basic nucleus of society and of the church," he said.
		To achieve this, the Catholic Church in Benin focuses mainly on the Holy or Missionary Childhood, which refers to the various associations and movements of apostolate for children, where a child undergoes Catholic formation suitable for his age.
	allafrica.com /stories/200709250939.html (397 words)

	The Cursillo Movement in Benin, Africa - Catholic Dioceses of Cotonou and Abomey
		The Cursillo Movement in Benin, Africa - Catholic Dioceses of Cotonou and Abomey
		Back to his homeland, Antoine was eager to spread the Movement in Benin.
		Three years later, the CM had spread in four more dioceses: Abomey in Benin, and three dioceses in Togo.
	cursillos.ca /en/expansion/francophonie/benin.htm (295 words)

	Joseph Kenny OP: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN TROPICAL AFRICA, Chapter 3B (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Middle Period of African Church history—between early North and East African, and the 19th-20th century missionary movement—is one of the least known but most fascinating episodes in the history of the Church. I have presented the main events of this period in my book, A history of the Catholic Church in Tropical Africa, 1445-1850.
		João de Barros described a cross which the Benin king wore around his neck. It was sent from the “Ogané”. The Benin ambassador to the Ogané wore a similar cross.
		Paul Emechete was the first Nigerian to be ordained a Catholic priest, and that in 1921. We have noted the presence of a Bini priest in 1517 and a Warri priest in 1765.
	www.diafrica.org /nigeriaop/kenny/ccta/CCTA3B.htm (1188 words)

	Vanguard - Cover Stories : Police foil fresh robbery at Catholic Church
		About 10 of them were said to have succeeded in gaining entry into the church premises while others remained in the cars said to have been parked outside the church.
		It was learnt that though the robbers did not enter the premises of the church, one of them stood at the entrance with a gun, while others dragged their victim out of the car.
		Vanguard gathered that the sounds of gun shots and the intimidating presence of the gunman at the entrance of the church caused many of the worshippers to scamper for safety, while passers-by were denied access during the robbery operation.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/cover/august05/26082005/f326082005.html (634 words)

	The Catholic Church in England and Wales: Interfaith Dialogue
		The Catholic Church in England and Wales: Interfaith Dialogue
		Encyclical on the permanent validity of the Church's missionary mandate, Redemptoris Missio, 7 December 1990
		Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Declaration on the unicity and salvific universality of Jesus Christ and the Church, Dominus Iesus, 6 August 2000
	www.catholic-ew.org.uk /resource/id/id10.htm (702 words)

	News Releases - CUA Office of Public Affairs
		The Rev. Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., a professor of church history at St. Meinrad Seminary in St. Meinrad, Ind., has been selected as the 2002 recipient of Catholic University’s Johannes Quasten Medal for Excellence in Scholarship and Leadership in Religious Studies.
		in the Life Cycle Institute Auditorium at Catholic University, located at 620 Michigan Ave., N.E., Washington, D.C. "Father Cyprian Davis has been the single most important leader in historical studies of the African-American Catholic Church in the United States,” said Happel, who also is a former student of the Benedictine priest and professor.
		In 1994-1995, he served as a visiting professor of Church history at the Monastic Studium established in West Africa at the Abbey of Dzogbégan in Togo and the Abbey of Koubri in Burkina Faso.
	publicaffairs.cua.edu /news/03QuastenRelease.htm (606 words)

	SIM Country Profile: Benin
		Welcome to the Republic of Benin, a nation with a rich heritage of art, culture and politics, for it was once the seat of the powerful Dahomey kingdom.
		Benin is the least evangelized non-Muslim country in Africa south of the Sahara Desert.
		Benin extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Niger River.
	www.sim.org /country.asp?CID=12&fun=1 (798 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Benin
		The mission of Dahomey was separated from Benin in 1882 and made a Prefecture Apostolic, in 1901 a Vicariate Apostolic.
		Since the latter date the Vicariate of the Coast of Benin has been bounded by Dahomey, the Niger, and the Bight of Benin; it includes the British colony of Lagos (Southern Nigeria), the native Kingdom of Porto Novo (under French protection), and the native kingdoms of Yoruba, Isebou, Ibadan, etc.
		The King of Aqué, the head of the federation of Abeokuta, grants a subsidy to the hospital and, although a heathen, is present with his followers at the chief festivals of the Catholic mission.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02480a.htm (706 words)

	Roman Catholicism - General Notes
		These are: (1) a greater emphasis upon the place of Mary; (2) the acceptance of the so-called Charismatic renewal within the Church with new emphasis upon the claimed "ministry of the Holy Spirit"; and (3) a major emphasis upon ecumenical activities with a view to seeking the full visible unity of all religions.
		Instead of "holy father" he would desire to be called "lowly sinner." A repentant Pope would reject heretical Roman Catholic dogmas such as the Mass, the Priesthood, the Sacraments, and the intercession of Mary and the Saints.
		A large Pentecostal denomination was notified in March of 1991 that all churches not registered with the government would be closed within three months; in one Pentecostal group, over 30 churches were closed due to threats of violence by radically-minded Catholics.
	www.rapidnet.com /~jbeard/bdm/Cults/Catholicism/general.htm (3779 words)

	The Papacy
		The Nigerian cardinal, a leading church figure in Africa, is a close friend of the pope's and has performed a crucial role in improving the Vatican's dialogue with Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu groups.
		Schoenborn was charged by the pope with the task of preparing the church's new catechism, but his chances may be hampered by his relative youth.
		He was born in Benin, Africa, and, like Arinze, may find his chances diminished by his non-European origin.
	www.time.com /time/daily/special/papacy/succession.html (805 words)

	Global Catholic News - Togolese Catholics Grateful for Pope's Words
		LOMÉ, Togo, MAY 2, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Catholics of Togo thanked Benedict XVI for his address on Sunday in which he appealed for harmony and peace in their country.
		Violence broke out in the west African country after the April 24 elections, in which the opposition insisted there were irregularities in the voting for Faure Nasingbe, who was declared the winner with 60% of the vote.
		It is a sign of concern on the part of the Church to help the suffering population," the nuncio said.
	www.catholic.net /global_catholic_news/template_news.phtml?news_id=70249&channel_id=2 (539 words)

	Global Catholic News - Church's Aid to the Sick in Africa Is Emphasized
		Church's Aid to the Sick in Africa Is Emphasized
		VATICAN CITY, JUNE 2, 2005 (Zenit.org).- A key mission of solidarity of the Church in Africa is to serve the continent's sick, the Holy See told a group of bishops meeting in Benin to discuss health challenges.
		That was part of the message sent on behalf of Benedict XVI by Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, substitute of the Vatican Secretariat of State, to the French- and Portuguese-speaking bishops of Africa who met in Cotonou.
	www.catholic.net /global_catholic_news/template_news.phtml?news_id=71952&channel_id=2 (447 words)

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