西非主教会议（RECOWA）发表会议公报：吁各国政府支持公立、私立与信仰背景教育，称「投资教育就是投资非洲的未来」
西非地区主教会议（RECOWA）的天主教主教们在一次为期四天的会议后发表最后公报，呼吁各国政府构建制度框架，支持公立、私立与信仰背景教育机构为地区发展作出贡献。ACI Africa于2026年11月8日报道了这一公报内容。
会议期间，与会者审议了活动报告，并通过了旨在强化西非天主教大学（UCAO）校长办公室与各单位运作的决议。公报面向政府领导人、教育工作者、学生、家庭、捐助者与更广泛的基督徒群体发表。主教们勉励学生热爱自己的祖国、培养对非洲的深厚感情，并以工作、能力、正直与公益意识为非洲大陆的发展与主权追求作准备；他们同时勉励家庭与捐助者坚持为青年教育所作的努力与牺牲、不因困难气馁，并表示：「青年人是我们家庭、我们的教会与我们大陆真正的财富。」
公报还呼吁基督徒群体为教会的教育事工与天主教高等院校祈祷并提供支持，使其履行服务人的全面发展的使命。主教们在公报结尾表示：「投资教育，就是投资非洲的未来。」
West African Catholic Bishops (RECOWA) Urge Government Support for Public, Private and Faith-Based Education: "Investing in Education Is Investing in the Future of Africa"
Catholic bishops of the Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (RECOWA) have urged governments to promote the flourishing of young people by creating institutional frameworks that enable public, private and faith-based educational institutions to contribute to the continent's development, in a final communiqué issued after a four-day gathering and reported by ACI Africa on November 8, 2026.
During the gathering, participants examined activity reports and adopted resolutions to strengthen the functioning of the rectorate and the various units of the Catholic University of West Africa (UCAO). The communiqué was addressed to government leaders, educators, students, families, benefactors and the wider Christian community. RECOWA members urged students to love their homelands, cultivate a deep attachment to Africa, and prepare to contribute to the continent's development and quest for sovereignty through work, competence, integrity and a sense of the common good. They encouraged families and benefactors to persevere in the efforts and sacrifices required to support young people's education, saying, "Young people are a true treasure for our families, our Churches and our continent."
The bishops also called on the Christian community to pray for and support the Church's educational ministry and Catholic institutions of higher learning so they can fulfil their mission of serving the integral development of the human person. Entrusting the future of UCAO and African youth to divine providence, they said, "Investing in education is investing in the future of Africa."
来源：西非地区主教会议
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图片来源：西非贝宁一所小学课堂，摄于1997年（资料图）A primary school classroom in Benin, West Africa, 1997 (file photo) — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
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