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Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - As a concrete gesture of the Fraternity Campaign, every year a national solidarity collection takes place throughout Brazil on Palm Sunday: in 2022 on April 10. Bishops, priests, religious, lay leaders, pastoral workers, Catholic colleges and ecclesial movements are the main motivators and animators of the Fraternity Campaign in their communities, parishes and dioceses. The funds collected are destined to the Diocesan and National Solidarity Funds, which contribute to works for the promotion of human dignity, initiatives in favor of the poor and a full life. Of the total collected in the collection for solidarity, 60% stays in the diocese itself and is managed by the Diocesan Solidarity Fund (FSD) with the aim of supporting local initiatives and projects. The other 40% constitutes the National Solidarity Fund (FNS), which is administered by the Social Department of the Bishops' Conference (CNBB), under the direction of the CNBB Board of Directors.
The 2022 Fraternity Campaign, launched on Ash Wednesday, has as its theme: "Fraternity and Education" and the biblical motto, taken from the book of Proverbs (31:26): "Speak with wisdom, teach with love". It has been "the reality of our time that has highlighted the issue of education, this time marked by the Covid-19 pandemic and various conflicts, distances and polarizations".
The presidency of the CNBB explains that it is a campaign that, rather than addressing a specific aspect of the problem of education, reflects on the foundations of the act of educating from a Catholic-Christian point of view. In this perspective, education is understood not only as a school act, with the transmission of content or technical preparation for the world of work, but as a process that involves an extended "community" that includes all the protagonists: family, Church, State and society. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 9/4/2022)
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