Social Apostolate

Abstract

The social apostolate in the African Assistancy is undergoing redevelopment. In fact, after about fifty years of activities of some social centres of the Society of Jesus, we are today witnessing a reorientation of the commitment - in practice, there is a change in perspective. When, in 1962, the French Jesuits founded the African Institute for Economic and Social Development (INADES) in Abidjan (Ivory Coast), its mission was to study and to teach the Church's social doctrine and to train future leaders of Africa. For many years, it also offered courses on development and agriculture for the middle class.....