With the enthusiasm and future-oriented gaze characteristic of the African continent with its many young people, the Daughters of St. Paul who live and work in this part of the world recently completed an important apostolic project: a DVD on Bakhita, an African slave from South Sudan whose extremely painful life experiences led her to first embrace the Christian Faith and then to enter the religious life, dedicating herself to God as a Canossian Sister.
The DVD format of the made-for-TV film is the fruit of notable apostolic commitment on the part of the FSPs of Africa, who pooled their resources to dub it in the main languages of the continent: English, French and Portuguese. All our circumscriptions on this continent joyfully participated in this project because they are convinced that the film will be of great benefit to the people of Africa, especially those who cannot read and who are thus formed by the visual media.
The film can be used as an instrument for human-Christian formation, to promote women and the dignity of the human being, to underscore the importance of reconciliation, to foster intercultural dialogue, etc.