Okwuelum Barnabas Chukwunweike, a Nairalander became one of recipient of the ICSD award having emerged as one of the best among over 100 essays contested between 22 seminaries across 4 continents during the just concluded Catholic Seminaries essay competition conducted by the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development (ICSD) and StudiumTheologium Salesianum, The Salesian Pontifical Univesity, Jerusalem Campus, and it is the second of its kind to be conducted for Catholic Seminaries.
The purpose of this essay was to reveal the depth of Catholic teaching on how Catholic teachings help in promote ecologically sustainable behavior.
The essay contest was judged by an international panel of Catholic professors and religion-ecology experts, including:
Fr. Matthew Coutinho, SDB, Professor of Moral Theology, Studium Theologicum Salesianum– the Salesian Pontifical University Jerusalem Campus
Fr. Russ Mcdougall, CSC, Rector of Tantur Ecumenical Institute, Jerusalem
Fr. Prem Xalxo, SJ, Associate Professor, Faculty of Theology, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome.

PARTICIPATING SEMINARIES: The following schools were represented in the contest:
Assumption Seminary, Mexico – 1 student
Bigard Memorial Seminary, Nigeria – 12 students
Blessed Iwene Tansi Major Seminary, Nigeria – 1 student
Christ the King Seminary, United States of America – 1 student
Claretian Institute of Philosophy, Nigeria – 6 students
Morning Star College Claret Nivas, India – 1 student
Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary of the West, Nigeria – 1 student
Mundelein Seminary, United States of America – 1 student
Pontifical College Josephinum, United States of America – 1 student
Saint Albert the Great Major Seminary, Nigeria – 7 students
Saint Joseph’s Seminary Washington, D.C., United States of America – 1 student
Saint Pio Capuchin Franciscan Friary, Nigeria – 1 student
Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Major Seminary, Cameroon – 6 students
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Major Seminary, Nigeria – 8 students
Seat of Wisdom Seminary Owerri, Nigeria – 3 students
Seminary of All Saints, Edo State, Nigeria – 4 students
Seton Hall University’s Immaculate Conception School of Theology, United States of America – 1 student
St. Paul’s National Major Seminary, Kinyamasika, Uganda – 2 students
St. Mary’s College, Oscott, United Kingdom – 3 students
St. Mary’s Seminary and University, United States of America – 1 student
St. Mbaaga’s Major Seminary, Ggaba, Uganda – 2 students
St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church and School, United States of America – 1 student
The National Missionary Seminary of Saint Paul, Nigeria – 1 student

Source: https://www.interfaithsustain.com/catholic-seminarian-essay-contest-2019/

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