The Bishop Who Serves A Whole Country
An Agentinian who knows Pope Francis from Buenos Aires serves as the only bishop of Eswatini. Bishop José Luís Ponce de León is interviewed by MANDLA ZIBI. Bishop José Luís Ponce de León heads...
Category: Christian Mission
Voice of SA Winner Signs on for Global Goodwill Ambassador
The Voice SA Season 2 winner Craig Lucas has been announced as the Global Goodwill Ambassador for award-winning human rights NPO The Justice Desk. The Justice Desk is part of the Edmund Rice organisation,...
We Must Bring Christ into the World
For the Extraordinary Month of Mission and Mission Sunday, ARCHBISHOP STEPHEN BRISLIN reflects on how the People of God can bring Christ to the world. Christ entrusted the Church to continue his mission shortly before his Ascension...
The Amazing Journeys of a Hermit-Missionary
Once he was a successful businessman; now he is a ‘hermit-missionary’ priest who loves to be on the road. Robert Duncan met Fr Mary Elias. In the late 1990s, he was an active businessman...
The Amazon Basin: Mission in the Middle of Nowhere
Why is the Church having a Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region? Barbara Fraser looks at the challenges of missionaries working in a lawless region so remote that it takes five days by...
Prayer for the Extraordinary Missionary Year 2019
Heavenly Father, when your only begotten Son Jesus Christ rose from the dead, he commissioned his followers to “go and make disciples of all nations” and you remind us that through our Baptism we...
Pope Opens Missionary Month with Call to Share Joy, Hope, Talents
By Carol Glatz – God wants everyone to take a risk to share with others the gifts he has given to them – their life, talents and his love, Pope Francis said. Opening the...
What Mission Month is About
Pope Francis has declared October 2019 an Extraordinary Mission Month. Fr Dumisani Vilakati explains why and what that means to us. The third Sunday in October is traditionally dedicated to the Church’s missionary endeavours. And...
What the Mission Month Logo Means
The logo for the Extraordinary Missionary Month October 2019 shows a missionary cross whose traditional colours recall the five continents. The Symbols The cross welcomes the world and connects peoples, in communication between people...
October is The Extraordinary Missionary Month 2019!
In the decades following the ravages of the Napoleonic Wars, the Catholic Church developed a tremendous missionary dynamic and engaged in one of the most successful mission initiatives in church history. Many of...
Italian Consul Visits Neocat Seminary
Italian consul Emanuele Pollio, visiting the Redemptoris Mater seminary of the Neocatechumenal Way in Rondebosch, Cape Town, said the seminary is important as it gives strength to new evangelisation. The seminary is home to diocesan missionary...
Lessons Learned in Mission Land USA
Many years ago as a young man born and raised in Baltimore, I spent a very different week getting a taste of life in Appalachia.
