Evropa své křesťanské kořeny opouští, Afrika je však vytváří. V Beninu, podle statistik, je 34% katolíků a bohosloví studuje 805 studentů. U nás se ke katolické církvi hlásí 25% obyvatel, seminaristů je jen kolem 100.
(Benin, the capital of which is Porto Novo, has a surface area of 112,622 square kilometres and a population of 8,779,000 of whom 2,984,000 (34 per cent) are Catholic. There are 10 ecclesiastical circumscriptions, 338 parishes and 801 parish centres. Currently there are 11 bishops, 811 priests, 1,386 religious, 30 lay members of secular institutes and 11,251 catechists. Minor seminarians number 308 and major seminarians 497.)