Catholic Relief Services also Means Travel
L-R: CARLA BROWN, BISHOP LAURENT DABIRE, ARCHBISHOP TIMOTHY P. BROGLIO, CARDINAL PHILIPPE OUEDRAOGO, AND BISHOP LEOPOLD OUEDRAOGO
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nother twenty-four hours of flights and airports draw to a close and I look forward to two more long trips before 2019 fuses into 2020! This particular trip was unique. Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the international charity of the Catholic Church in the U.S.A. asked me, as a member of their Board, to make a solidarity visit to my brother bishops in Burkina Faso and Niger.
These two former French colonies in West Africa are among the poorest in the world and are not well-known in the States. I had been to both before, because my first assignment as Secretary to the Apostolic Nunciature in the Ivory Coast also accredited me to Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) and Niger.
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