2012-02-04 16:25:03

Meeting of JOHN PAUL II Foundation for the Sahel


(February 04.2012) The 30th session of the governing board of the JOHN PAUL II papal foundation for the Sahel will be convened in Rome from 6th to 16th February. The organising committee for the session that will welcome participants will be headed by Cardinal Robert Sarah, President of the Vatican Pontifical council Cor Unum and the legal representative of the foundation. The Board of administration is formed by the Bishops of the nine countries of the Sahel. The Bishops will discuss socio-political and religious situation of the various Sahel countries and provide updated information on the current risks of the agriculture-food crisis, to avoid the situation of two years ago. The nine countries of the Sahel are Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia and Chad. As usual the priorities will be set for the financing of projects against desertification, to the value of 2 million euro. The foundation is an initiative desired by Pope John Paul II following his first visit to Africa, where he personally saw the great tragedy lived by people due to long-term drought and desertification. On 10 May 1980, His Holiness pronounced the following words which are at the origin of the Foundation: "When the poor and needy cannot find water ... I, the Lord, will hear them! ... I will change the dry and barren land into a lake" and "the water that I give will become for them a flowing fountain that gives eternal like. From this very place I launch a solemn appeal to the entire world ... I raise my voice in supplication ... I make my voice the voice of those who have no voice, the voice of the innocent", said Pope John Paul








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