By Heather Walker
ROME — Welcoming new students to The Lay Centre is always a very special moment. Just days before the start of the second semester, five new students crossed our threshold.
They travelled from as far as Mexico and Kazakhstan to study in Rome.
Aigerim Dyussenova is from Kazakhstan and is sponsored by the Nostra Aetate Foundation, set up by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue to promote dialogue, mainly by according grants to people of other religions who wish to study Christianity.
Four students came from different dioceses in Mexico to study for one semester for the diploma in safeguarding at the Institute of Anthropology at the Pontifical Gregorian University. They are: Aida Aguirre Alonso (Archdiocese of Hermosillo), Liliana Sánchez Tirado (Archdiocese of Tijuana), María Guadalupe González de Costilla (Archdiocese of Monterrey), and Diana Fabiola Hernandez Guevara (Territorial Prelature of Mixes - Archdiocese of Antequera).
We also had the pleasure of welcoming returning leadership scholar Bruno Hermes de Oliveira Santos, who was in his native Brazil, where he was carrying out field research for his doctoral work in social sciences at the Pontifical Gregorian University.
We wish them well as they start their studies.
Are you thinking of studying at one of the pontifical universities or institutes in Rome? Contact us at info@laycentre.org
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