Members of the Inter-Territorial Catholic Bishops' Conference (ITCABIC) of The Gambia and Sierra Leone who met for their Plenary Assembly between January 18-25 in Sierra Leone’s Catholic Diocese of Makeni, have resolved to merge with their peers in Liberia. Bishop Gabriel Mendy in The Gambia said that Priests and Bishops who went to the Seminary while the three countries collaborated in Formation often reminisced about their “good old days”, and wanted the collaboration back. The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Banjul said that the Bishops had decided to merge ITCABIC with the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Liberia (CABICOL), and that the decision was awaiting Vatican’s approval. “It is a decision and a resolution but it has not yet gone into effect,” the ITCABIC President said during the Plenary’s closing Mass on Monday, January 26. “We need to submit this decision through the Nuncio to Rome for the Vatican to give its approval.