"The CPN is a much-needed way to support the courageous and mostly unheralded efforts of the Church to build peace in war-torn countries from Central Africa to Southern Asia."

Bishop John Ricard
Chairman, U.S. Bishops' International Policy Committee

"The CPN is a space of exchange, encounter and discovery where we help each other understand our peace-work, generated in faith and actualized in history."

Andrea Bartoli
Community of Sant' Egidio,
USA

"CPN is another concrete way of building solidarity among peacebuilders around the world. The energy that it will bring will help us in facing the many difficult challenges of peacebuilding work in our different contexts. My hope is that we are able to bring the same energy eventually to the communities directly affected by war, violence and conflict - creating not only a network of peacebuilders but more imoprtantly a network of communities all over the world."

Myla Leguro
Peace & Reconciliation
Program Manager
CRS-Phillippines

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Catholic Peacebuilding in Central Africa

The Catholic Church is growing most rapidly in Africa, where Catholics have virtually tripled. In 1978 they numbered about 55 million, while in 2003 they have increased to almost 144 million. Catholics, who in 1978 constituted 12.4% of the African population, 25 years later constitute almost 17%," stated L'Osservatore Romano. [Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2003]

 

Burundi 2006: Third International Conference of the CPN

Central African Peacebuilding in the News

Faith Based and Other African NGO's

Suggested Reading

Relevant African Peacebuilding Web Sites