The Church Celebrates 125 Years in the Ivory Coast
February 08, 2021
Fathers Alexandre Hamard and Emile Bonhomme
In the Ivory Coast, the Catholic Church has closed the jubilee of its 125 years of evangelization on Sunday January 24, 2021 with a solemn mass celebrated in the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Mockeyville, in the diocese of Grand-Bassam. FSSPX.News looks back on the birth of the Catholic Church in this land of West Africa.
“Let us praise God out loud and express our gratitude to Him for the valiant heralds of the evangelization of our country, thanks to whom the honey of the gospel has spread everywhere like a swarm of bees!” Emotion transpires through the words spoken by the Cardinal Archbishop of Abidjan, Msgr. Jean-Pierre Kutuwa, on January 24, 2021.
By CISA
GRAND-BASSAM, JANUARY 26, 2021 (CISA)-The Conference of Catholic Bishops of Côte d’Ivoire (CECCI) has called for reconciliation, political dialogue, the return of political exiles, and the release of political prisoners as the country marks 125 years of evangelization.
“The time has come to give back joy to Côte d’Ivoire, to see its children gathered around it without obstacles of an ethnic, political and religious nature. This is the place to call for the return of political exiles, and the release of all political prisoners and of conscience, for the advent of this new Côte d’Ivoire,” reads a statement read out at the end of closing mass of the jubilee on January 24.