US delegation to visit Southern African Catholic Church
Saturday, 29 August 2009 13:54
A delegation of two bishops and 8 lay people from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) arrived in South Africa on 29 August 2009. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick will join the delegation later, being asked to preside at Teddy Kennedy’s funeral. They’ll be visiting projects that they are funding in Southern Africa, until the 5 September 2009. On the first day of their trip, they met the heads of Departments of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference in Khanya House, Pretoria. It was an opportunity to present the situation and the needs of the Catholic Church in Southern Africa. To see the photos and to read the State of the Nation addressed to the delegation, click below on “read more”.
Members of the delegation and members of SACBC staff at the welcoming meeting
Sister Alison Munro, head of the AIDS office of the SACBC presents the work of her department
(from the left: Bishop emeritus Georg Hirmer - SACBC, Sister Alison, Bishop John H. Ricard, Chairman
Subcommitte on Africa - USCCB, Archbishop Paul Khumal, SACBC, Bishop John Charles Wester,
Chairman Committee on Migration - USCCB and Sister Hermenegild - SACBC)
 |  Father Vincent Brenan, Secretary General of the SACBC |
 Members of the US delegation |  Mary Hodem, Regional Director for CRS South Africa, and Father Barney McAleer, SACBC |
From 31 August to 3 September, the delegation will divide itself into 3 groups to visit projects run by the Catholic Church in Kwazulu-Natal, Limpopo and Swaziland. Back to Pretoria on the 3rd, the visitors will go to Winterveld (St Peter's parish, ART Clinic, hospice and Mercy sisters). On the 4th and 5th, the delegation will be departing back to the United States.
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