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The Movement for Freedom in Mozambique - Page 8. The Role of the Church in Mozambique Earlier in this paper, we hinted at the rationalizations given by the Portuguese government as to why it insists on pushing the Catholic Church into the forefront in the education of the African people. The Portuguese government claims that it has two 1 purposes in Africa: one is to improve the material life of the African, while the other is to encourage the Portuguese Catholic missionary to improve the Africans' spiritual and intellectual life. Whatever there is in the form of concrete programmes for putting into effect the first part of the Portuguese colonial policy was discussed, at least in part, in the outline above. The second part of the policy is being realized through the use of the Roman Catholic missions. While the Colonial Act provides for the freedom of conscience and the freedom of the various religions, at the same time and in a contradictory manner, it provides for a special protection and assistance to the Roman Catholic mission programme. Departing from an earlier attitude held during the first two decades immediately following the establishment of the Republic, the Portuguese government recognized the rights and special functions of the Church, which are "to Christianize and educate, to nationalize and civilize the native populations". In Mozambique this policy is governed by appropriate constitutional provisions, beginning with the Missionary Accord of 1940, which spelled out in some detail the principles contained in the Concordat of 7 May 1940 between the Vatican and Portugal, and the Missionary Statute of 1941. Included in these agreements, the Portuguese government was committed to subsidize the Church's missionary programme, limiting the activities of non-Catholic foreign missionaries, and discouraging the influx of Catholic foreign missionaries. In the estimated population of Mozambique of 7 1 million, the number of people who subscribe to the Roman Catholic jfaith is estimated at 500,000. These are served by about 100 mission and parish churches, led by secular priests and fathers of various orders, including Franciscans, Dominicans, Benedictines, Lazarists and those of the Holy Ghost Congregation. In 1959 there were in Mozambique 2^-0 priests and fathers. Of these only three priests were Africans. Seme of the most important activities of the Catholic Church are "the founding and directing of schools for European and African students, elementary, secondary and professional schools and seminaries. . .as v/ell as infirmaries and hospitals". The whole responsibility cf educating the African people has been entrusted to the Roman Catholic Church, exclusive
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Full text | The Movement for Freedom in Mozambique - Page 8. The Role of the Church in Mozambique Earlier in this paper, we hinted at the rationalizations given by the Portuguese government as to why it insists on pushing the Catholic Church into the forefront in the education of the African people. The Portuguese government claims that it has two 1 purposes in Africa: one is to improve the material life of the African, while the other is to encourage the Portuguese Catholic missionary to improve the Africans' spiritual and intellectual life. Whatever there is in the form of concrete programmes for putting into effect the first part of the Portuguese colonial policy was discussed, at least in part, in the outline above. The second part of the policy is being realized through the use of the Roman Catholic missions. While the Colonial Act provides for the freedom of conscience and the freedom of the various religions, at the same time and in a contradictory manner, it provides for a special protection and assistance to the Roman Catholic mission programme. Departing from an earlier attitude held during the first two decades immediately following the establishment of the Republic, the Portuguese government recognized the rights and special functions of the Church, which are "to Christianize and educate, to nationalize and civilize the native populations". In Mozambique this policy is governed by appropriate constitutional provisions, beginning with the Missionary Accord of 1940, which spelled out in some detail the principles contained in the Concordat of 7 May 1940 between the Vatican and Portugal, and the Missionary Statute of 1941. Included in these agreements, the Portuguese government was committed to subsidize the Church's missionary programme, limiting the activities of non-Catholic foreign missionaries, and discouraging the influx of Catholic foreign missionaries. In the estimated population of Mozambique of 7 1 million, the number of people who subscribe to the Roman Catholic jfaith is estimated at 500,000. These are served by about 100 mission and parish churches, led by secular priests and fathers of various orders, including Franciscans, Dominicans, Benedictines, Lazarists and those of the Holy Ghost Congregation. In 1959 there were in Mozambique 2^-0 priests and fathers. Of these only three priests were Africans. Seme of the most important activities of the Catholic Church are "the founding and directing of schools for European and African students, elementary, secondary and professional schools and seminaries. . .as v/ell as infirmaries and hospitals". The whole responsibility cf educating the African people has been entrusted to the Roman Catholic Church, exclusive |
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