{"id":14273,"date":"2016-04-13T06:50:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T06:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=14273"},"modified":"2016-04-13T06:50:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T06:50:23","slug":"bangladesh-a-solution-to-overcome-the-local-shortage-of-priests-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/04\/13\/bangladesh-a-solution-to-overcome-the-local-shortage-of-priests-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"BANGLADESH  &#8211; A solution to overcome the local shortage of priests &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>A three-year training \u00a0programme for lay helpers at the pastoral centre of in \u00a0Mymensingh<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Catholics represent only a tiny minority in Bangladesh which is over 90% Muslim \u2013 only 200,000 out of \u00a0144 million people . Christianity here is still developing. \u00a0In the region of Mymensingh for example, the Church has only been present for about a hundred years, and the diocese of the same name was established only in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>One major problem for the Church is the shortage of priests. The Catholic faithful live scattered over a wide area, and in many places a priest can only visit twice a year. Despite this, the Church is alive and dynamic, since it is able to rely on the commitment of religious women and of the laity.<\/p>\n<p>The diocese of Mymensingh has come up with a solution o the shortage of priests. They <a href=\"https:\/\/orderklonopin2mg.com\">buy clonazepam no rx<\/a> have set up a three-year programme to help train religious women and the laity to assist the priests in their work. The courses cover the liturgy, Eucharistic and Marian piety, praying the Rosary in the families, and inculturation of the Church, notably in the local indigenous culture of the Garo ethnic group.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the 15 parishes of the diocese will send one priest, one religious sister or religious brother, two catechists, one teacher and one youth representative for \u00a0the courses.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of running this programme is far more than the diocese and the participants alone can afford. ACN is contributing 7,340 Euros towards food and lodging, travel costs, educational materials and the basic expenses of the course tutors.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>ACN Malta<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pastoral-Center-of-Mymensingh-Catholic-Diocese-Group-picture-of-the-participants-with-priest.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14277\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14277 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pastoral-Center-of-Mymensingh-Catholic-Diocese-Group-picture-of-the-participants-with-priest.jpg\" alt=\"Pastoral-Center-of-Mymensingh-Catholic-Diocese-Group-picture-of-the-participants-with-priest\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three-year training \u00a0programme for lay helpers at the pastoral centre of in \u00a0Mymensingh &nbsp; Catholics represent only a tiny minority in Bangladesh which is over 90% Muslim \u2013 only 200,000 out of \u00a0144 million people . Christianity here is still developing. \u00a0In the region of Mymensingh for example, the Church has only been present&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-newsletters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BANGLADESH - A solution to overcome the local shortage of priests - ACN Malta - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/04\/13\/bangladesh-a-solution-to-overcome-the-local-shortage-of-priests-acn-malta\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BANGLADESH - A solution to overcome the local shortage of priests - ACN Malta - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A three-year training \u00a0programme for lay helpers at the pastoral centre of in \u00a0Mymensingh &nbsp; Catholics represent only a tiny minority in Bangladesh which is over 90% Muslim \u2013 only 200,000 out of \u00a0144 million people . 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