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By Godwill Arthur-Mensah, RNG
Accra, July 15, GNA – A Renowned South
Father Michael Lapsley, African Anglican priest and activist for social justice
will visit Ghana on Monday 22 July.
Father Lapsley visited the Vatican in June
this year where he held a meeting with Pope Francis and shared a part of his life
journey, including the crucial experience of receiving a letter bomb that blew
his two hands among other wounds.
Pope Francis was visibly moved by his story.
During the meeting, Father Lapsley explained how his bombing had led to his death.
calling to create the healing work of memories that ultimately led to the
formation of the Healing Institute of Remembrance (IHOM).
It was initially in the damaged country of
then apartheid in South Africa, in addition to the Truth and Reconciliation program
Commission, and later in the world.
His visit to Ghana is made possible by the
Ghana Remembrance Healing Support Team, composed of Michael Lapsley
Foundation, ACAT Ghana and the Healing Memories Luxembourg Team.
The team leader for the arrangement of his
come, Scofray Nana Yaw Yeboah, who is also a trainer of transformation and
A practitioner of Healing Memories, announced this in Ghana.
Father Lapsley to visit Nsawam Prisons
Thursday, July 25 and a mini workshop on healing memories Saturday,
July 27 at the Catholic Church Christ the King.
On July 28, he will hold a public lecture
and launching the book on healing the wound of the past at Christ the King in Accra.
Father Lapsley is the director of
Memorial Healing Institute (IHOM) in South Africa.
He is also the Canon to heal and
reconciliation in Cape Town's Anglican Cathedral and in Edmonton,
Canada.
He saw many translations of his
Memory, Redeeming the Past (14 language editions to date), including German,
Spanish, French, Arabic and Thai, which shows that its history and work of
The IHOM has a universal resonance.
GNA
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