Rich devotional life in Togo: entire villages attend First Friday devotions

November 20, 2009

Reporting on the life of the Church in the African nation of Togo, Father Benoit Eoevi Penoukou, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, says that the First Friday devotion is so deeply rooted that “entire villages fill the main parish for confessions on Thursday nights.” During October, “Catholics-- and even some followers of evangelical churches-- literally take the churches by storm” to pray the Rosary.

The number of Catholics in the West African nation has grown from 19,000 in 1914 to nearly 1.6 million (30% of the nation’s population) today.

 

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Further information:

• "A Church, daughter of missionaries, becoming an adult," Director of PMS in Togo tells Fides (Fides)