WORK OF THE WHITE FATHERS

New Zealand Tablet, 3 June 1920, Page 29

WORK OF THE WHITE FATHERS

. The Archbishop of Algiers availed of the recent occasion of the Golden Jubilee of the religious Congregations of the White Fathers and the Missionary Sisters 1 of Our Lady of Africa to send a circular letter to his clergy j in which he recalls the good work performed by these zealous men and women. In his letter his Grace says that in the far off regions of Central Africa the goodness of God has worked miracles by means of the ; White Fathers. At the end of 1918 . the total number of the faithful in the district of the Great Lakes was 273,206, and that ,of the Catechumens 139,281. The Archbishop also istates that the reports of the different missions prove that the practices of religion are everywhere held in honor. The number of Communions rose between June, 1917, and June, 1918, to 4,450,618. During the war 98 of the White Fathers won the Legion d’Honneur, the same number the Military Cross, and 168 were mentioned in the Military List. The Missionary Sisters number 527, without the novices and postulants. These nuns have charge of 63 military stations in Central Africa.