(21 Mar 09 - RV) The highlight of the first leg of Pope Benedict’s African voyage was the unveiling in Cameroon of the working document for the upcoming 2^nd African Synod, due to be held in Rome October next.
Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel is the Metropolitan Archbishop of Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, and the President of the Ethiopian Catholic Bishops’ Conference. He is just one of the hundreds of local leaders who came to receive the document from the Pope and take it home to his church in Ethiopia, he spoke with Festus Tarawalie about the importance of the Pope’s presence on African soil: