SCBC Executive Board meets on 8th September

Universities

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The Catholic University of Sudan

In mid September 2008, the Catholic University of Sudan admitted its first ever students numbering 40 from all the dioceses of the Sudan. It is a public university opened by the Catholic Bishops of the Sudan. The 40 students are attending the Faulty of Arts and Social Sciences. The Catholic University shares its campus with Comboni Secondary School, Juba. In 2009 Wau will host the two faculties of Agriculture and Engineering. The Faculty of Computer Science will still be in Khartoum within Comboni College. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in southern Sudan is in full cooperation with the new university. The Jesuit Fathers runs the university with a veteran Priest who founded universities in Mozambique and Ghana.

A dream comes true!

John Paul II Proposes a Catholic University in Sudan

 A Project Abandoned Because of the Civil War

 VATICAN CITY, OCT. 6, 2003 (Zenit.org).- A day after canonizing as a saint the first bishop of Central Africa, John Paul II proposed the foundation of a Catholic university in Sudan.
The Pope made his suggestion today when he met in Paul VI Hall with thousands of pilgrims who attended Sunday's canonization of Daniel Comboni and two other missionaries.
Recalling the founder of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus and of the Comboni Sisters, the Holy Father suggested that "the project to found a Catholic university in Sudan, a land loved by Comboni," be carried out.
Plans to establish such a university were abandoned in the 1980s when war gripped the nation.
Bishop Daniel Comboni (1831-1881), whose see was in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, worked on a "Plan for the Regeneration of Africa." He summed up his project with the motto "Save Africa through Africa," a sign of his confidence in the capacities of the peoples there.
"I am convinced that such an important cultural institution will offer a qualified service to the whole of Sudanese society," the Pope said of the university.
The project to renew the construction of the university was relaunched a few days ago in a letter signed by Archbishop Gabriel Zubeir Wako of Khartoum. He is scheduled to be elevated to cardinal on Oct. 21.
The letter is addressed "to all women and men concerned about the tragic situation of war in Sudan."
In this country, which over the past few decades has seen projects of Islamization, "the absence of lay Catholics, men and women, committed and qualified in public life, is the reason for the absence of Christian values in social life," the archbishop lamented.
The Sudanese bishops' conference launched the project to found a university in the early 1980s, with the support of both the Holy See and the government. Sudan's political situation then degenerated and the bishops halted the project.
"It is indeed a fact that in Sudan the sole intellectual and cultural source is Islam," Archbishop Zubeir Wako said. "Should the present government approve the Comboni University of Sudan, it would mean an opening for intercultural and interreligious dialogue."
He said he hopes the university will start in Khartoum and later extend to the various dioceses of Sudan, as was the case with the Comboni schools.