(while the following item concerns things about as far from
EAO as one can get, I am sure the information will be of interest to our
readers)
austraLasia 867
AFW: 16 novices professed today from Liberia, Ghana,
Nigeria, Sierra Leone
ONDO (Nigeria): 4th August -- At 5 pm on August 4th
at the Don Bosco Centre Oke Odunwo-Ondo, Nigeria, 16 young Africans will make
their first religious profession. The event represents a first for what is
now designated as AFW in the list of Province codes worldwide, a group of
countries that formerly came directly under the mission outreach of a number of
Provinces: UK, USA, Germany and Turin (or ICP).
The Africa West Vice Province was created in December of last year, meaning
that each of the novices who profess today began their novitiate as members of
their respective provinces at the time. One does not need a long memory to
realise that Sunday Williams and Albert Gibson from Liberia (formerly under the
UK) had to make a difficult journey from an area caught up in civil war, just to
arrive at their place of novitiate.
Perhaps not by accident, in the mind of a Provident God, is another reality
- 5th August marks the silver jubilee of Salesian entry into Liberia.
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