First steps towards founding Kolping Families in Pakistan – Three Kolping enthusiasts are undertaking a study visit at the Kolping National Association in Uganda.
Adolph Kolping’s ideas are spread around the world in many different ways. Often, it is through personal encounters and friendships that the work of the association suddenly becomes a topic of conversation and arouses curiosity. This was the case many years ago when Peter Jansen, Diocesan Praeses of Cologne, talked to his friends in Pakistan about Adolph Kolping and his work. The desire to found Kolping Families themselves and to make the idea of helping people to help themselves through the power of community effective in Pakistan grew stronger and stronger.
When Dr. Indrias Rehmat, Bishop of the Diocese of Faisalabad, visited the General Secretariat in January 2025, it was decided that a group from his diocese should get to know Kolping’s work at first hand. Therefore, three Kolping enthusiasts from his diocese, including two priests, set off for Uganda, where they were given a comprehensive introduction to the association’s work in the Kolping tradition.
These were intense and, above all, motivating days for the travellers. They are not only enormously grateful to their Kolping brothers and sisters in Uganda for the educational time they spent there, but are also already making plans how to succeed in spreading the association in their home country. In Pakistan, Catholics make up just one per cent of the total population.
In any case, KOLPING INTERNATIONAL and Kolping Uganda will continue to accompany Kolping’s first steps in Pakistan.
