{"id":38807,"date":"2019-01-27T20:31:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T20:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-promises-support-towards-archdiocese\/"},"modified":"2019-01-29T09:13:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T09:13:11","slug":"kagame-promises-support-towards-archdiocese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-promises-support-towards-archdiocese\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame promises support towards archdiocese cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking after his ordination, Archbishop Kambanda said that among his chief goals during his spell as Kigali\u2019s Archbishop is the construction of Kigali\u2019s new Archdiocese\u2019 cathedral.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said: \u201cFellow Christians of this City (Kigali), we have as a wish to build the new modern temple of God, the Cathedral of this City.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kigali Archdiocese\u2019s cathedral is currently built in Kiyovu, Nyarugenge District at St Michael\u2019s Parish.<\/p>\n

President Kagame pledged to support the cathedral adding that it would possibly be built at a new location.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will partner to build it and we will build a better cathedral. We may build it at a new other place but this will depend on the Church\u2019s will or due to the agreement we will have in sponsoring the activity to realize that wish in as short time as possible,\u201d Kagame said. <\/p>\n

President Kagame also commended the good partnerships between the Roman Catholic Church and Rwandans particularly in the provision of education and health services to our population, regardless of their religious affiliation.<\/p>\n

President Kagame said that during his visit to Vatican in 2017 \u201cthe Holy Father made a humble gesture, calling on God to forgive the Church as a whole, for the Church\u2019s failure in our tragic history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a major milestone, which we are all called upon to perfect, by working together as religious institutions and government in a positive way, based not on the past, but on the future we want,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet us put the Pope\u2019s teaching into practice, and most importantly, into the hearts of the clergy and the faithful. We want the Church to be a full partner in building this nation, and the foundation of unity and reconciliation upon which it is based,\u201d Kagame added.<\/p>\n

\u201cA healthy mind requires a healthy body. The Church shares the duty and mission to transform people\u2019s lives. After all, we don\u2019t only take sick people to God,\u201d Kagame said asking: \u201cWhy not go to Him having lived lives of purpose and virtue, in service to our brothers and sisters, right here on Earth?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is in our power to do so,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Antoine Kambanda who was installed as Kigali\u2019s new Archbishop had been appointed as Bishop of Kibungo in 2013. He becomes Kigali\u2019s third Archbishop since 1976 when it was founded. He will keep serving as temporary Bishop of Kibungo Diocese before it gets its new Bishop. <\/p>\n

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President Paul Kagame has pledged to support the construction of Kigali\u2019s new and modern Archdiocese\u2019s cathedral as he attended the ordination of Antoine Kambanda, Kigali\u2019s new Archbishop replacing Thadd\u00e9e Ntihinyurwa who retired last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38807"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38807"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}