INDEPENDENT DELEGATION OF CAMEROON Publicationes Claretianæ - Yaounde

Objective Proclaim the Good News, Mark 16:15

Publicationes Claretianæ Foundation Year : 2012 Claretians Number of Claretians Full Time : 2 Partial : 2 Lay People: 1 ( designer) Volume of publications: less than 20 Books Per Year diaries and 5000 Bibles Audience : General especially Catholics Main Topics : Biblical

Historical Facts Thanks to the Nigerian Claretians Working in Cameroon in the Early 90s the first sedes of Claretian Publications were sown. Books were brought in from the Philipines and sold mostly in the Seminaries and parishes This was to be transferred back to Nigeria in the Early 2000s under the name Claretian Publications Bible Diaries and Insight Magazines were still sold in small scale in Cameroon via seminarians and priests.

Historical Facts In the year 2012 Cameroon became an Independent Delegation. After having worked in the CLACOM as seminary Function ( ) and especially in the distribution of the Bible Diaries round Nigeria, the prefect of apostolate proposed the revamping of the Claretian Publications. With demands from the Christians, we decided to print Diaries in French and import English Editions from India and in Nigeria.

Macao-Bangalore-Owerri = Yaounde The General Prefect of Apostolate put us in contact with Fr. Rossa who accompanied us in the printing and distribution of AGENDA BIBLIQUE He gave us the first reflections in French. These were shared to french speaking Claretian Round the world : Canada, Rome, Gabon, Ivory Coast RD Congo, Spain etc Diaries in French were printed in Bangalore, India through the support of Benny. We also bought English diaries from India (500 pages) Claretians in East Nigeria through CLACOM supported us in the process by sending us English Diaries to sell and pay after (800pages)

First Year Experience Very interesting reception of the Diaries in Cameroon though the diaries from India reached late due to difficulties at the cameroon sea port The Diaries (800 pages) from Owerri weresold with the ones wiith 500 pages The Christian Preferred the Former, despite the large size. The Editorial board thus opted for the LARGE DIARIES

EVANGELIUM The name changed from Bible Diary to EVANGELIUM in the year 2014 as a mark of our identity and to make major differences with Bible Diaries spread in Cameroon especially by the Paulines Fr. Rossa accompanied us in the printing of Evangelium in English and in French and also in procuring CCB

EVANGELIUM 2015 IN ENGLISH/FRENCH

PASTORAL BIBLE FOR AFRICA Published by the Claretians for the Diocese of Buea in Cameroon. This is actually customising the NABRE for usage in the Diocese of Buea

ACTIVITIES  Agenda Biblique 2014  Evangelium 2015  Local Publishing of Souvenir Cards and Calendars  Printing and distribution of Bibles in Audio and in Paper format  Preaching on TV, Radio and on Catholic Daily Newsletters

SOME PUBLICATIONS OUR MAIN BIBLICAL PUBLICATION IS THE PUBLISHING OF AGENDA BIBLIQUE AND EVANGELIUM

ACTIVITIES TO TALK ABOUT CLARETIAN PUBLICATIONS Organisation of Book Festivals in the name of Bible Festivals : Christmas Bible Festival, Lenten Bible Festival, Easter Bible Festival, etc Radio and Television Programs to talk about Claretian Publications to a wider public. Necessary to be known

AUDIO BIBLE CD A gift from Claretian publications in Macao 5000 copies have been printed and are being distributed They were printed and designed in Lagos, Nigeria

SHIPPING OF BOOKS Books are printed or bought and sent through the Douala Sea Port We request for Exoneration of Taxes Books are received and stored in rented store houses Vehicles carry them to the various distribution centres

Our books and articles are sold in IMMACULATA BOOKSHOP We are initiating a networking of distributors in different dioceses

Organisation of work  We work as a Team  Two claretians are involved, mostly members of the apostolate Board  We have a Designer and a Computer assistant  Claretians help in proof-Reading the work

SWOT Strength Enthousiasm, Hope and youthful vigour Weakness Need more experience and collaboration from claretians and laity Opportunities We are still in a semi-virgin land. We are editing French Community Bible and getting rights! Threats Paulines and some dioceses are putting up structures. High cost of production.