The Pope in Africa in 2009? The invitation comes from the archbishop of Dakar (Senegal), Card. Theodore Adrien Sarr, who saw the opportunity for two important events in the lives of African Catholics: 40 years of the Bishops Conference of Africa and Madagascar, and the presentation of the results of the special Synod for Africa, taking place in Rome in 2009. "We shall take into consideration the opportunity of inviting Benedict XVI to open the works of our Bishops’ Conference said Card. Sarr to a Pan-African press agency -. And we are also thinking about grasping the opportunity of the Synod to see if the Pope may come to Africa immediately afterwards. I hope we can delve into these two opportunities during the next meeting of African bishops, which is taking place in October". Card. Sarr added that the archbishop of Dar-es-Salam, Card. Polycarp Pengo, would thus get in touch with the Holy See to know whether the possibility of a visit has been taken into consideration. John Paul II went to Kenya and Cameroon in 1995, exactly after the Synod for Africa.
