2023-05-14 07:44:28
The world umbrella organization of the 165 national Caritas organizations, Caritas Internationalis, has a new president, as Kathpress reports today: Tokyo’s Archbishop Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi was elected to this function yesterday evening at the 22nd General Assembly of the most important church aid organization, which will be held in Rome until Tuesday. comes from a statement.
Austria’s Caritas President Michael Landau, who is also President of Caritas Europa and took part in the election together with 400 other delegates from all over the world, congratulated the religious of the Steyler Missionaries on Twitter. He wished him well in his four-year tenure.
Experience from three decades
Kikuchi is President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan and General Secretary of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC). For his additional task, he brings three decades of Caritas experience with him. As early as 1995 he was a volunteer in the refugee camp in Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire).
From 1999 to 2004 he was executive director of the Japanese Caritas and from 2007 to 2022 as its president. He was also President of Caritas Asia from 2011 to 2019, a member of the Executive Committee of Caritas Internationalis from 1999 to 2004 and a member of the Council of Representatives from 2011 to 2019.
In a first statement, the new president of the world association underlined that Caritas “must be at the forefront to welcome, accompany, serve and defend the poor and vulnerable”.
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