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New ICCS world chaplain – Fr. Luis Marinho
« I feel a great joy that I am to serve Scouting at an international level, and make a specific contribution as a priest of the Catholic Church. It is, therefore, a pastoral mission that the Church entrusts to me with. It especially underlines the confidence of the...
MEETING OF THE WORLD COUNCIL OF THE INTERNATIONAL CATHOLIC CONFERENCE OF SCOUTING (ICCS), IN FATIMA, PORTUGAL, FROM THE 11th TO THE 14th of NOVEMBER 2021
In a brotherly atmosphere and with a lot of dialogue, representatives of more than sixty associations from countries coming from all over the world (Europe, America, Asia and Africa), gathered virtually and physically during three days of intense work near to the...
The World Committee
The World Committee elected the 4 members of the World Committee. Georges El-Ghorayeb Marco Aurélio Castrianni Marcel Ledjou BLAGUET Matteo Spanò At the same time, the Regional Councils of Africa and Inter-America elected their new presidents: Marcelin Henry...
8 new members
During the Conference, the CICS Council voted to accept 8 new members. Asociação dos Escuteiros de Macau Escuteiros de Guiné Bissau Asociación Scouts de El Salvador Egyptian Catholic Scout Committee Scout Association of Malawi Asociación de Scouts de Venezuela...
Sub-regional seminar for scout chaplains in West Africa
he diocese of MAN, in the Ivory Coast, hosted the sub-regional seminar of West African Scout chaplains from February 13 to 17, 2020. Supervised by Father Jules N'DOUA ATOUBLE, chaplain of the sub-region and president of the Zonal Committee for Inter-religious...
1st Interreligious Forum of the East African sub-region
From January 30 to February 2, 2020, the Scouts of Tanzania Association hosted the first Interfaith Forum of the East African sub-region in Dar-Es-Salam, capital of the Republic of Tanzania. The event brought together four countries of the sub-region, Tanzania,...
A new chaplain for East Africa
Eddy Kwizera, the national chaplain of Burundi. He has a long history of service to scouting and his appointment was discussed during the West Africa Interfaith Forum in January 2020.