Wednesday, 10. March 2010.

Missions in Africa

Center Father Vjeko
Kivumu, Rwanda
Website: www.vjeko-rwanda.info

Dakawa Mission
Dakawa, Tanzania
Website: www.dakawamission.org

Lusu Mission
Lusu, Zambia
Website: www.lusumission.org

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Baptism with Dancing and Drums
Written by fra Ivica Perić   

the believers bearing giftsThe Sunday after Christmas was supposed to be a casual day for me. The arrangement with Friar Kizito was very simple – I would conduct the mass at 7.30, and he would conduct the mass for baptism at 10 o’clock. And so it was arranged - at least that’s what I thought. So, after finishing the morning mass, I began doing some paperwork regarding school issues. But then I noticed the procession scene in front of the church and was impressed by it.  I even decided to take some photographs of the richly coloured parishioners lead by beautifully dressed dancers.

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Christmas in the Land of Eternal Spring
Written by fra Ivica Perić   

Rwanda - the Land of Eternal SpringThey do not call Rwanda the Land of Eternal Spring for nothing! Everything is always green everywhere in this country. Even the temperature is constantly balanced at an almost ideal 27 degrees. Okay, we do “freeze” a little bit at a “cold” 18 degrees during the night, and we do have to live with heavy rainfall lasting one hour each day for two months a year. But at Christmas Rwanda is truly heaven!

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