Session 3: Our Global Community

Session 3

Our Global Community Archdi

cese of Dublin

O F F I C E F O R E VA N G E L I S AT I O N & E C U M E N I S M

Number of Catholics in the world:

1,166,000,000

3.86 million Catholics in Ireland

(Census 2011)

Let’s take 1.2 billion Catholics in our world today and reduce them to a single congregation of 100 people. If this single congregation of 100 people represents the whole Catholic community then it would look like this...

And then what!?

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EUROPE..... 38

NORTH AMERICA..... 14

CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA..... 28

AFRICA..... 11

ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST..... 10

AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA..... 1

Developing World..... 73

Literacy..... 10

Literacy..... 10

Literacy..... 10

Ambika Paraja (centre), with her school mates in Jhilligoan, India Digna Portilla Amador, La Confianza, Honduras doing her school work.

Water..... 10

Water..... 10

With many water sources having dried, people in the communities in Lodwar, northern Kenya, have to walk for up to 10km to find the nearest source, which is often unfit for human consumption.

Sanitation..... 22

Sanitation..... 22

Ilham, Toni, Anisa, Javiar (mum) and Adri Zakirman, outside the remains of their home following an earthquake in Indonesia.

Living on less than a dollar a day..... 13

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With implications for.......

Deal with the effects of climate change. Here the De Vasquez Family at their home, El Presidio Liberado, El Salvador

How families deal with natural disasters... Here Ifthikar, 5 carries his sister Sfia, 2 following floods in Pakistan

With implications for.......

How families fare in conflict. Here the Mohamed family at Belet Amin IDP (Internally Displaced People) camp, in war torn Somalia

How families feed themselves. Here Nyanga Ammuronot has his arm measured to check his nutrition rate in the village of Ngimuriae, northern Kenya.

With implications for.......

Health care provisions....

Here Vanneth Khan (5) who is cared for by her grandmother Sok Yeoun (65) in Phnom Penh, Vietnam. She is an AIDS orphan.

Introducing our GLOBAL COMMUNITY *adapted from CAFOD Parish Resources