{"id":3095,"date":"2018-07-04T20:53:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T20:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/?page_id=3095"},"modified":"2019-04-24T06:27:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T06:27:47","slug":"ruwa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/ruwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruwa community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ruwa\u00a0community was constituted in July 2007, as a communitarian group with other houses in Zimbabwe, two or three missionaries were living there always, in charge of the running of the parish, school ministry and for some time initial formation, vocation promotion and publications.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559731&quot;:708}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Initially\u00a0the\u00a0community\u00a0run\u00a0St Charles Parish,\u00a0which was\u00a0a parish found in the Archdiocese of Harare, Zimbabwe. The parish\u00a0was\u00a0found in Ruwa which is situated east of Harare. The parish covered\u00a0an area of 285 square\u00a0kilometers. According to the census held in 2012 the area covered by the parish had\u00a0a population of about 56,333 people of which only 5% are Catholic faithful.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559731&quot;:708}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There were two big centers and three small centers in the Parish. The two large centers are within an urban set up while the three small centers cover farming areas. One of the big centers became a parish in October 2018, when Saint Dominic Parish was born, as a division of Saint Charles Lwanga.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559731&quot;:708}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Mission of the Parishes\u00a0are: To strengthen Small Christian Communities using a well catechized, committed, and faithful Leadership working as one family in Christ in order to preach our Faith through action.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559731&quot;:708}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are two schools from the Diocese in the territory of the\u00a0Parish\u00a0of\u00a0Saint Dominic, St. Vincent Primary and St. Vincent Secondary School. The two of them are under the Archdiocese of Harare jurisdiction, the parish priest is the Local Responsible Authority in the name of the Archbishop.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Implementing high education standards, taking care of the Catholic Ethos trough prayers and teachings of the Church, with a serious care of the administration and transparency, developing the structures of the schools in liaison with the parents are some of the main focus in this ministry.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruwa\u00a0community was constituted in July 2007, as a communitarian group with other houses in Zimbabwe, two or three missionaries were living there always, in charge of the running of the parish, school ministry and for some time initial formation, vocation promotion and publications.\u00a0 Initially\u00a0the\u00a0community\u00a0run\u00a0St Charles Parish,\u00a0which was\u00a0a parish found in the Archdiocese of Harare, Zimbabwe. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3095\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claretianszimbabwe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}