Letter of September 1st 1999 from Jacques Gaillot | ||
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"Help from Africa"
" Help from Africa...help us, we suffer a lot in Africa...We need you to fight poverty and against war..."
Our Europe is living on itself, looking for its comfort and closing its boundaries. It gives up African countries, when in the past it has so often abused of their resources for its own benefit. Thanks to Yaguine and to Fodé to remembering us the great suffering of African countries and how we are lacking concern. Yes it is urgent to set up a new cooperative action for this continent. If that happens the death of these young Guineas would not be in vain. | |
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In January 1995 Jacques Gaillot abruptly received his resignation from his office at Evreux. In a rather surrealist way, this eviction was transformed in an appointment at an ancient and fictitious see, Partenia in Algeria. This made him a kind of virtual Bishop of which his potential parishioners were spread all over the planet... A year later, he decided to take the institution at its word, he opened a web site to dialogue with every body in the world. It was immediately successful: thousands of Internet users from all over France, Canada, Australia and dozens of countries, laymen or clerics, Christians or non Christians, for or against, conversed on many various subjects. This book accounts for the site of Partenia 2000 as an extraordinary way of exchanging, it is an indication of the Church to be in which the geographic divisions of the dioceses, inherited from the Middle Age, do not mean much. Assembled by Philippe Huet and Elizabeth Cocquart, Jacques Gaillot presents messages about exclusion, racism, death penalty and many other passionate matters. Dreaming of a Church in harmony with the evolution of the world, evocation of revolts and hopes of a whole generation, this collection of testimonies, faithfully received by the Bishop, opens a "pastorale" of a totally original kind. | |||
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