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 | | He did so in response to the 1957 “Fidei Donum” encyclical, in which Pope Pie XII called for action in the name of faith, specifically on the African continent.The first monks set off as early as 1958 and settled in Gihindamuyaga, “the hill that quivers in the wind”, near Astrida (nowadays known as Butare). |
 | | In a different style, the ”Youth Camp” can accommodate the country’s various youth movements: Xaveri, Scouts
The need of Rwanda’s Church are also met on the pastoral level: animation of religious programmes on national radio, participation in the liturgical movement, and construction, away from the monastery, of a church and presbytery for the parish. |
 | | Right from the start, the monks established the practice of choral prayer even though prayer was already established in Rwanda before their arrival. |
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