Vocations at one of Burkina Faso’s main seminaries increased by more than 10 per cent in the past five years – in spite of frequent attacks by jihadists who have seized control of more than half of the country’s territory.
There are 281 students at Saints Peter and Paul Kossoghen Major Seminary in Ouagadougou Archdiocese in the 2024-2025 academic year, up from 254 in 2019-2020.
Seminary rector Fr Guy Moukassa Sanon said that about 40 per cent of the seminarians are from the so-called “red zone” – parts of the country worst affected by terrorism.
