“The hope is there thanks to our communities, where faith is so alive that we can see a future through their open attitude to life, to God and the Church.”

—  Jesús Tirso Blanco

"The population still needs to be reconciled in its innermost self", says the Bishop Lwena to Fides http://fides.org/en/news/30153-AFRICA_ANGOLA_The_population_still_needs_to_be_reconciled_in_its_innermost_self_says_the_Bishop_Lwena_to_Fides (21 October 2011)

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