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    The Update (A Blessed and Happy Easter to all May the Resurrection of Christ Shine in Your Lives)
    (Tangaza University College, 2017-04) Tangaza University College
    T his month we will be celebrating the Paschal Triduum (Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter), the holiest and most important days of the church’s calendar. During these days, Tangaza takes some “sabbath” time, away from its usual business, in order to reflect and enter more deeply into the mystery of God’s merciful love for us in Christ. We our reminded that our call to “transform lives” is not just about helping people get a better degree or a high-paying job, but about helping all of us enter more deeply into the transformative power of the resurrection. Like Jesus, each of us individually and Tangaza as a whole must be constantly undergoing the “dying and rising” process that leads to new life. As announced at our recent Tangaza Day celebra- tions (March 24), Dr. Beatrice Churu and Dr. Andrew Lujuo have finished their terms as Deputy Principal Academic and Deputy Principal Student Life. We are deeply grateful for their extraordinary service, and we hope that they will continue their contribution to Tangaza in other ways as we move forward. Meanwhile, Fr. Selvam Sahaya, SDB, has been named as incoming “Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic and Student Affairs”, while Fr. Daniel Karau, as the college chaplain, will assume many of Dr. Lujuo’s former duties as we await some restructuring of the Student Life Office. We wish them both great success, and we promise them our full support. The Governing Council also hopes to make progress very soon on filling the positions of Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Administration and Finance, as well as choosing the Dean of the School of Arts and Social Sciences All of these developments are a sign of our increasing readiness for a university charter. We know there are even more changes ahead, and some may be very difficult, but we have confidence in the One who leads us. At Tangaza Day we distributed a card with a “Prayer for Tangaza”. We hope that you will use it often, and continue to keep Tangaza in your prayers, that we may follow the Lord wherever he is leading us.
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    The Update (Happy Easter)
    (Tangaza University College, 2018-04) Tangaza University College
    I wish to send my Good Easter wishes to our Tangaza family. You are a wonderful family of faith and academics. I have observed this in the way you handle one another, the attendance to morning Mass, and the promptness you respond with when called to attend to certain matters. In the just concluded conference on the Muslim-Christian engagement for social transformation in Africa, with specific emphasis on the role of the academic institutions, which was jointly mounted by Tangaza and Umma University, we have committed to be true witnesses of our faith through charity, omission of stereotypes, and seeking the deeper levels of our mutual understanding. The second level of engagement is through academic pursuit of excellence in peace building and outreach programmes. Among the international participants were H.E. Bishop Miguel Ayuso, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue at the Vatican. He reiterated the responsibility of each one of us in promote the mutual respect and understanding in the interreligious dialogue. We had also representations from Iran and Egypt, as well as the NCIC, Zfd, African Muslim Agency, AGEH, Comboni Missionaries, Missionaries for Africa, among others. We thank them all for their support and financial contribution towards the conference. April 2018 Happy Easter In the Veritas Gaudium, a recent document by Pope Francis (2017), the pontiff reiterates that for an institution of higher learning to be functional, “the academic community, all the people, either as individuals…….. are each according to his or her own status, co-responsible for the common good and must strive to work for the same community’s goals” (11, 2). Therefore, we are called to be strategic partners in pursuit of knowledge and excellency in mind and spirit. We are heading towards the end of our semester. I wish all students success in their examination. Examinations are opportunities where we provide the proof that we have benefited from instruction, research, and outreach. We should not be afraid of them. I also call on you to be good ambassadors of our esteemed institutions by living the mission, vision, and core values on which our life revolves in our scholarship, and ministry. This is what we are called to be in all our life situations. Finally, as we continue in our pursuit of the Charter, I call on all of you to keep praying so that the few issues to be resolved at the government policy level, which look very promising, may go through for us. May God bless you and keep you on the track of achieving your dreams.