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The contribution of each of the last three popes
It is undeniable that each pope in the history of the Church has contributed to the development of the Church! Indeed, they have personally devoted themselves to the building of the Church and to the evolution of its vision of the contemporary world. The last three popes are not exempt from this assertion. What can…
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SMA animation Centre in construction
We are pleased to announce to you the construction of a Missionary Animation Center, within which a Thanksgiving-Memorial Chapel in honnor of all missionary who worked Côte d’Ivoire will be errected. This will equally be a place where all the abandoned, the less fortunates, the wounded of life and the marginalized would be welcomed. A center of…
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SMA ordination in India
Rev. Fr. Pradeep MATHE, an Indian SMA, was ordained a priest on Sunday, January 19, 2017, along with four other diocesan priests at Gunadala Matha Shrine, Vijayawada. He is the second of the twenty or so new SMA priests going to be ordained this year in different countries.
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The Missionary Sisters Our Lady of the Apostles (OLA) in Chad and collaboration with the Society of African Missions (SMA)
Chad is a secular state. However, religion has an important place in the country either at the individual or at collective level. Traditional religions (about 10% of the population) is in the central and southern parts of the country, particularly in the Mayo-Kebbi East regions and Mayo-Kebbi West.
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Superior General’s visit to Lyons Province
From sixth to tenth march, we had the joy of welcoming, Fr. Fachtna O’Drisscoll, superior general of the Society of African Missions together with his vicar general Fr. Antony Porcellato who came for a canonical visit.
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This disease is worse than leprosy
Considered third mycobacterial disease affecting human behind leprosy and tuberculosis, which it exceeds even in terms of prevalence in certain regions of Benin, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, WHO classifies burili ulcer as
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COMMUNITY, LOVE, AND MISSION
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON THE SMA INTERNATIONAL LAY CONVENTION Last December 28, 2016 to January 1, 2017, I was blessed to be sent to Feriole, Italy to be one of the participants of the SMA International Lay Convention. As a new member of the SMA Family Crusades for Vocation Promotions,the theme of the convention was especially…
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“RESTORED TO GOD’S LOVE”
” When it comes to the will of God, every other will has to give way. ” – Melchoir De Marion BresillacTestimony of Angelee A. Abrenica, Lay Vocation Promotor for the SMA district of Philippines.
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Why are missionaries still needed in Africa Today?
Rev. Fr. François du Penhoat is back from Côte d’Ivoire where he went to visit the SMA Lyons Province Members working there. He spent 12 intense days visiting parishes, SMA institutes and formation houses. Here is his story giving us reasons
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“I DO NOT KNOW THIS MAN”
“Once again he denied it. A little later the bystanders said to Peter once more, “Surely you are one of them; for you too are a Galilean.” He began to curse and to swear, “I do not know this man about whom you are talking.”
SOCIETY OF AFRICAN MISSIONS
