Africa-Press – Angola. The Angolan ambassador to Ethiopia, Djibouti and permanent representative to the African Union (AU) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (CEA), Francisco José da Cruz, participated yesterday in a public audience with Pope Francis, dominated by the interests around human dignity and public policies for the development of countries.
The meeting took place after a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, celebrated by Cardinal Michael Czerny, secretary of the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development. The Angolan ambassadors to the Holy See, Paulino Baptista and the Republic of Guinea, Maria Cuandina Tchilepa de Carvalho participated in the audience.
The aforementioned diplomats were invited to join the delegation that represented Angola at the 27th World Congress of the International Christian Union of Business Leaders (UNIPIAC), which took place from the 20th to the 22nd of this month, in Vatican City, bringing together more than 600 participants from around 40 countries in Africa, North America, Latin America, Asia and Europe, with the aim of promoting the Christian faith in the business world, under the motto “Courage to Change”.
Angola was represented, in the first instance, by the former president of UNIAPAC-Africa and current member of the Board of Directors of the organization that has observer status with the African Union, Zeferino Estêvão Juliana, and by the president of the Christian Association of Managers and Leaders of Angola (ACGD), Francisco Sozinho Chiuissa.
At the center of the work of the Congress, the audience granted by Pope Francis, the Supreme Pontiff suggested to those present a reflection on how a new paradigm of development could be conceived based on principles of defense of human dignity, subsidiarity in economic life and politics, and solidarity, with a view to the common good.
The UNIAPAC Congress program included several panels on topics such as Sustainable Economy, Employment and Decent Work, Finance, Sustainable Ethics for the Common Good, Challenges and Opportunities of the Technological Transition and the Digital Economy.
UNIAPAC intends to influence the world and contribute positively to an economy at the service of man, through synergistic efforts at local, national and regional levels in the construction of the common good and to propose a new anthropological approach to the human community, taking into account peaceful ways to live together, taking into account everyone’s talents and possibilities.
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