Vatican’s financial support for missionary dioceses is waning, leading South African bishop says
July 06, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: Following his ad limina visit to the Vatican, Bishop Sithembele Sipuka of Mthatha, the president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference, said that the Dicastery for Evangelization suffers from a “growing inability ... to provide financial and material assistance to mission areas like ours.”
“We left the meeting with a heightened awareness of the need to beef up the self-sustenance drive in our conference, because overseas coffers from which we traditionally got support are on the verge of drying up,” he added.
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