Angola: Synod, the Bishop of Leena – ‘The Problems of the West Are Not Ours’

Leena — Low levels of education, lack of services, leprosy, the spread of aggressive sects: these are just some of the problems that the Catholic community in Angola faces on a daily basis, where pastoral urgencies “are often different from what is discussed during the World Synod of Bishops”. This is what the Bishop of the Diocese of Leena, Martín Lasarte Topolansky, stressed in an interview with Fides.

“It is true what the Pope said, that when we think of the Church, we often think of the…