— This warm African earth does not stop learning the pains of the childbirth of freedom; in this continent, cradle of humanity, democracy is sometimes the missing link between development and peace; 

— two Africa’s coexist: the wavering one, which is always shown with a trail of misery, corruption, violence, and the one arising proud and hospitable, which never shown with its spiritual roots, its spring buds; 

— Bishops and priests proclaim at the same time and counter-time the breathing needs for truth and justice; 

— among the 44 countries that the United Nations prudishly calls "less advanced countries" of the world, 31 are in Africa; 

— solidarity, this great duty for all ennobled through the social encyclical of John Paul II, almost becomes a luxury for the African because he does not have the means to practice this on a wide scale; 

— the Church is one of those rare institutions where man may be recognised, respected, protected as an icon of God; 

— the eyes of the whole Church are pointed towards Africa in Synod, because its face in the year 2000 will carry the traits of the youth of the Church of Africa. 

Original text: French 

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