On Thursday ,17 March 2022 at 10.00 am (East African Time) is taking place a virtual meeting for Coordinators of Catholic Education in Anglophone Africa, organized by the Catholic Institute of Education. The meeting has the scope to connect with each other and to listen to each other’s experience over the past two years, to share joys and sorrows and…
On February 14 to 18, 2022 the Association of national leaders of Catholic education in West Africa (ARNECAO, representing on of the sub-regions of ASSECAM/ Association of Catholic Education in Africa and Madagascar) held its annual meeting in Porto Novo, Bénin.
On 18-22 February 2019 the General Assembly of the Association of national leaders of Catholic Education in West Africa (ARNECAO) met in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso. In the reunion took part Mali, Niger, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea Conakry, Ivory Coast, Senegal (excused) and Gambia.
The member countries of OIEC Central Africa met in Gabon from 18 to 22 December. Cameroon, Gabon, Congo Brazzaville and Equatorial Guinea were represented. Chad and the CAR were missing, whose new leader is Fr. Edgard Mercier KEKET NGBANDA who replaces our dear friend Paul Guinimanguimi. During this GA, participants spoke about “Educate to fraternal humanism, to build a civilization…
At the invitation of the CSN (Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria), and Father Bernard Asogo, National Secretary of the CSN’s Committee on Catholic Education, the Secretary General attended the 3rd National Catholic Education Summit of Nigeria which was held in Abuja from 15-17 October. More than 600 participants from across the country gathered in the presence of several Nigerian Bishops around…
We received from the Secretary General of the ECAC (Associate Catholic Teaching of Central African Republic), Paul GUINIMANGUIMI, the information that the Central African Government has decided to close 32 confessional institutions in the CAR for various administrative reasons, such as : missing opening authorization, missing renewal of the opening authorization, non-compliance with closure decisions or inadequate infrastructure. The OIEC…
From March 13th to 17th, national Leaders of Catholic teaching of West Africa met in Mbour, Senegal. Were represented Senegal, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Niger, Mali, Ivory Coast, as well as Gambia, an English-speaking country that took part in this meeting for the first time. Before arriving in Mbour, the General Secretary visited Conakry (Guinea Conakry) where he could meet…
“In Cameroon, we are just coming out of two national meetings, the Annual General Assembly of Cameroon Catholic secondary schools’ Directors (February, 21st-22nd 2017 in Yaoundé), whose topic was: ‘Catholic school face the challenge of integral human education’. And from February 23rd to 24th, 2017, was held the Standing Committee of Diocesan Secretaries for Catholic Education of Cameroon and the…
According to the statutes of the OIEC, the gathering of several national directions of Catholic teaching constitutes a region. Each region has the structures and the organisation that suits it best and elects or appoints its General Secretary. The region participates in the purpose and objectives of the Office. At the General Assembly in Rome (2015), it was requested that…