Slovenian missionary Danilo Lisjak died in a car accident in Uganda

In a car accident in Uganda it is at the age of 74 died a Slovenian missionary Danilo Lisjakthey wrote on the website of the Slovenian Salesians Donbosko.si. According to them, Lisjak, who was a priest of Salesian, devoted almost all his priestly work to work in missions in Africa.

Lisjak was born on August 4, 1951 in Saksid, in the parish of Dornberk. He received a priestly consecration in 1981, since 1986 he has worked as a missionary in Africa, namely Rwanda, Burundi, Kong and Uganda. He died on Friday in a car accident near the Gul Missionary Post in Uganda, where he last worked.

At the Missionary Center of Slovenia, they wrote on its website that Lisjak has been « operating in four lands of Africa for over 35 years, experiencing difficult moments of guerrilla and real war in Rwanda and an outbreak of a volcano in the Goma just behind the Rwandan border. » « He intervened in rescue people and especially children (1600 in Rwanda and 300 on the run before the Lava volcano in the Congo) and overcame linguistic obstacles with all the ‘relocation’, » they said.

According to them, there were many benefactors in Slovenia, according to Lisjak. « We have come true together a lot of plans, » they wrote. Finally, Lisjak and his Sobrat Gianni ubybdi In a new mission in Atede, Archdiocese of Gul in Uganda, he set and realized the classic form of a Catholic mission, and at the Civil War in the neighboring South Sudan, the community again opened to refugees.

In 2021, Lisjak began to build a new church, a large sanctuary of Don Boska in Gulu, which he considered « the crown of his missionary work and the Salesian presence in Uganda. » “In a missionary sense, Danilo was always a pioneer who opened new outposts and did not avoid work in various natural and war disasters. He was also a great and elusive thinker who liked to share his views in personal conversations and through his articles, « they added.