GENERAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 51, 22 December 1904, Page 27

GENERAL

The Cong:o. M'ans'ignor R,oehen3, 13is<hop of Djerba, in Upper Congo, iWdugnantiy defies the existence of ihe alleged atrocities reported taking place in his district by the press of LonirtoriTrappists in Argentina. A bionly of Fnench Trappists is arranging to secure a qdnsrderaible kocti,an of land Jji Argentina and found a m|odel school of agriculture, in which the orphans and the Iniduans of that country shall be trauneifl. Catholics in Morocco. According to recently published statistics, there are 6(500 Catholics in Morocco. For these there are seven ohurches and fifteen chapels, and for the children twentyone elementary schools . In Tangier tlhere is a higher sjihjool f)or boys and a college fior girls taught by nuns of Me Third Order of St. Francis. Missionaries for New Guinea. On N.ovemiber 12 (says the ' Ceylon Catholic Messenger ') tlhere arrived by the German steamer the ' Grosser Kurfurefct ' two Rev. Fathers of the Society of the Sacred Heart, fiour Brothers, and three Sisters,, who were en rojute to Pomerania in New Guinea, to replace tjhe Rev. Fathers, Brothers, and Sisters who were miurdeirdd tlhere a coitfple of months ago. It is a striking coitacifcience t»h,at the two Rev. Fathers wore ordiained on the very, day upon which the massacre took place. We wis|h tihe dev.oted little band a friuitPul result of their mtssiioinary labors in the wild and isolated region to •whidh tihey are going.