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SERVlZlO Dl DOCUMENTAZIONE E STUD1 DOCUMENTATION AND RESEARCH CENTRE CENTRE DE DOCUMENTATION ET DE RECHERCHE SERVlClO DE DOCUMENTACION E INVESTIGACION SEDOS VIA DEI VERBITI, 1 - 00154 ROMA - TEL. 5741350 30th November, 1990 SEDOS BULLETIN SUBSCRIPTION, 1991 Subscriptions for 1991 are unchanged: Inside Europe: Italian Lire 25,000 (or equivalent in other currencies eg. $22.50). Outside Europe: Italian Lire 35.000 (or equivalent in other currencies eg. $31.50). We ask you to send your subscription as soon as possible to avoid the considerable mailing expenses of sending a reminder,and to use the form at the bottom of the page. Please take no action on this notice if you receive' SEDOS BULLETIN in EXCHANGE for your publication or if you have already sent your sub- scription. SEDOS BULLETIN SUBSCRIPTION 1989 To: SEWS, Date: Via dei Verbiti 1, 00154 ROW. I enclose a cheque for Number : Name : If possible return the address label from your Bulletin envelope. Peace on earth .... CONTENTS: 1. MISSIONARY OUTREACH OF THE AFRlCAN CHURCHES: THE ROLE OF THE MISSIONARY INSTITUTES L. Kasanda Lumembu. CICM 2. ANNUAL REPORT TO SEDOS GENERAL ASSEMBLY 1990 William Jenkinson. CSSP 3. AFRICAN SYNOD: AN INTERVIEW WITH BISHOP AGRE Valentino Salvoldi 4. MISSION MOMENTS: LAITY AND THE LNING WORD - Indonesia THE PROMOTION OF JUSTICE: AN INTEGRAN PAF3 OF EVANGELIZATION - Loyola GENOCIDE OF THE YANOMANI - Brazil APARTHElD AND INMIGRATION - South Africa 5. 1990 SUBJECT AND AUTHOR INDEX 6. COMING EVENTS IN THIS ISSUE The assembly hall was full for Fr. Kasanda focused on the place the morning session of the 1990 an- of missionary institutes in the nual meeting of SEDOS and the after- developing outreach of African noon session was the best attended churches. Those churches were AGM to date. In the evening. Mass was reminded forcibly of their missionary celebrated according to the Zairean character by the famous address of rite, Fr. Kasanda being the chief Pope Paul VI at Kampala. It has been celebrant assisted by a small choir reiterated again and again by the of Zaireans living in Rome. A spirit present Pope John Paul I1 in his many of prayerful solemnity marked the visits to that continent. celebration and indicated the pos- The speaker's experience in sibilities of inculturation in the Zaire, in Nigeria and now in Rome as liturgy even in the confined Roman a memher of the General Council of surroundings. the Scheut Missionary Society ensured he was well-placed to give this ex- Fr. Kasanda's conference was cellent survey. Africa's missionaries followed by a lively discussion. His are growing in number. Growth does replies to questions are in this not take place without its share of issue following the text of his tensions and strains and African mis- address. He spoke in French. There sionary growth is no exception. Fr. was simultaneous translation into Kasanda identified some of these ten- English, Italian and Spanish. tions and raised pertinent questions about them. His address dealt with four main areas: This issue also contains the 1990 SEDOS Annual Report. - a realistic analysis of some -taracteristics of past mission in There is a brief interviev with Africa; Bishop Agr& of the Ivory Coast on the - new ways of being in mission and coming Synod for Africa. xne demands these are making on 4frican churches; We include a few significant - the peculiar challenges vhich con- mission experiences from the many i-qnt African missionaries when they that come into our documentation cross cultural and racial boundaries centre each day. in their own continent and even more so when they enter rich "Western" And there are important notices societies; of coming events. - how missionary institutes can be catalysts in the missionary grovth of SEDOS Secretariat will re-open African churches today. on January 3, 1991. We wish all our msaad readers peace and joy as we rem=mber and rejoice at the birth of the Son of God amng us. May we put no obstacle to his 'peace on earth' in this ccdng year. THE OUTREACH OF AFRICAN PARTICULAR CHURCHES TO THE UNIVERSAL MISSION: THE ROLE OF THE MISSIONARY INSTITUTE L. Kasanda Lumembu. CICM (L. Kasanda Lumembu, CICM comes from Zaire. He is a member of the General Council of the Scheut missionaries' Generalate in Rome. He has specialised in initial formation of young Scheut missionaries in Zaire and was Master of Novices in the novitiate there. He was himself a missionary for some years in Nigeria where he was principal superior. He is a well known speaker and writer). A norm which each christian 1983 (3). Fr. Degrijse. a former Su- community should consider essential perior General of the Scheut mis- to its very existence is to send sionaries, deals in the second chap- every disciple on mission. The ter of his book with the missionary Second Vatican Council was quite awakening of the churches of Africa. clear on this point and the Synod of In considering the vitality and Bishops held in 1974 further dynamism of the small christian com- stressed it (1). Mission is not an munities, the author notes the appendage of the old established presence of a favourable climate for churches, nor of the Christian com- the growth of vocations and the munities which have plenty of per- promise of a greater openness to sonnel and material means. The young mission. He writes:- churches too, despite their own in- ternal needs, must contribute, in "By increasingly opening up to however small a way, to the the exterior, these comunities proclamation of the Gospel (2). are also becoming missionary. The universal missionary dimen- The churches of Africa have ex- sion of the church, communion isted now for a little over thirty with other churches and evan- years as hierarchically instituted gelization ad extra challenge units. These churches which are the them" (4). result of the missionary effort of the old churches of the West, will The response of the churches of not retain their creative impulse if Africa to universal mission is a they evade the universal call to movement which is gaining ground. mission. A church which closes in on African missionaries are already at itself, without a missionary dimen- work today in churches both within sion, is either an incomplete or a and beyond their continent. sick church according to John Paul 11. The churches of Africa have un- These missionaries belong to derstood the Pope's observation. In different groups. Some are members fact, they are already opening up to of international missionary in- mission. Here it is appropriate to stitutes, some belong to missionary quote from Fr. Omer Degrijse's book institutes of African foundation. entitled "L'6veil missionnaire des some belong to diocesan religious Eglises du Tiers Monde" published in institutes and some to the diocesan clergy. This courageous response of 1. PRAWTIC DEFINITION OF the African churches to mission MSSION IN AFRICA proves the existence of a new con- sciousness of being fully evolved churches. Accepting mission, they Africans' notion of christian express their own internal vitality mission inevitably derives from prompting them to respond to all the their experience of how they saw missionary requirements of proclaim- European missionaries carry out the ing the Good News (5). Nevertheless, service of mission. It was an am- a readiness to go on mission beyond biguous notion. They saw mission as their frontiers must not be to the an enterprise of the old christian detriment of mission within those churches directed at the pagan frontiers. regions of the world. The aim was "the conversion of the infidels". It Mission is global. It is truly had a military connotation and just fulfilled in its two complementary like the colonial movement of that aspects, - within. missio ad intra time it aimed at a great conquest. and beyond, missio ad extra. These Like the division of Africa at the two expressions are not parallel or Berlin Conference, the church had successive commitments. They are divided up and portioned out the bound together from the start, the pagan world entrusting its conquest one containing the other, the one to the missionary institutes. acknowledging the other. A true mis- Statistics were drawn up each year sionary dimension of a particular showing the results obtained with an church is not to be estimated there- estimate of the amount of work still fore, by the presence of its members to be done. An even less fortunate in another particular church. It is aspect accompanied the military one. to be recognised rather by a living Rightly or wrongly mission was as- internal reality which spreads out sociated with colonialism and in through mission. On this point one fact, missionaries had often ap- might ask whether the churches of peared beside the political con- Africa are not mission-oriented, or querors (6). Their action was not at least partly so, in spite of always distinct from that of the themselves. In this reflection I latter and some conversions were propose a deeper examination of this indeed the result of their joint ac- question, and I propose also to t ion. question the missionary institutes about their role in awakening the One can understand therefore, churches of Africa to mission. It is the hostile reaction to the chris- an essential, a catalytic role. tian mission at the time of politi- which brings to completion the work cal independence. Mission suffered they have already begun. the fate reserved to all the com- ponents of the colonial enterprise My paper deals with the four (7). In practice the idea underlying following points:- the above mentioned aspects implied that mission was an activity 1.