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Lyon Cours Gambetta: Overnight prayer for Fr. Pier Luigi Maccali
Lyon Cours Gambetta: Overnight prayer for Fr. Pier Luigi Maccali The 5th October, 2018 from 7pm to 8pm, the SMA chapel at 150 Cours Gambetta in Lyon (69007) served as framework within which the overnight prayer in favour of the liberation of Fr. Pier Luigi Maccali, an SMA Italian Missionary kidnapped in Niger on the…
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SMA Dialogue_Le Blog
SMA-Dialogue le Blog Contribution de la Société des Missions Africaines au débat interreligieux ****************======================= Nos articles Dialogue Chrétiens – Musulmans à la lumière de Nostra Aetate Visite du Pape en Égypte Qu’ils soient un ! … Un Engagement pour l’unité Dialogue interreligieux : Un impératif Commentaire sur l’Alliance du Prophète Mahomet avec les…
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October 27th: SMA day for ecumenical, interreligious and intercultural dialogue
During our 2013 General Assembly, our delegates chose October 27 as the day of, interreligious, ecumenical and inter-cultural dialogue. The GA asks all members at various levels to make “a great effort to promote” this day. Why this date of October 27 ? On October 27, 1986, for the first time in the world, Pope…
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Fr. Polycarpe Guinimbele: From the parish of Doutchi (Niger), to the Central African District-in-Formation
Father Polycarp Désiré Guinimbele is a priest with the Society of African Missions since 2014. He is from the Central African Republic. While in Lyon, at the SMA Media Center, he shared with us his missionary experience in Niger (2014-2017) then in the Central African Republic where since October 2017, he was appointed secretary,…
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“How much…” – Documentary on human trafficking
The sands of Sahara have buried numerous ambitions and the Mediterranean waters have drowned loads of dreams. Those who survived the perils of the journey have just jumped from the frying pan to the fire – the slavery continues in the open air. Desperate people on one side and closed immigration doors on the other.…
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With Mary Mother of Jesus Sr. Paulette Makes her perpetual Vows
Sr. Paulette Afi Manavi MODZINOU was born on the 29th July 1988 in Togo. (West Africa). She’s the last born of a Catholic Christian family of six children comprising five girls and one boy.
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Zambia: visit of the Superior General
I paid a visit to the Region of Zambia from 3rd to 18th June, 2018. I began my visit in the city of Lusaka. Here, two confreres are ministering in city parishes: Paddy Barry at St Agnes, Ibex Hill and Moses Chileshe at St Theresa’s Chainda. Both parishes are busy with the usual round of…
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Zambia: Kamuchanga St Marys’, 50 years of grace and gratitude
In Kamuchanga, a town located in the city of Mufulira about 60 km north of Ndola, the economic capital of Zambia, the faithful Christian Catholics of St. Mary’s celebrated the golden jubilee of their parish. The event that gathered about 2000 people in a Mass celebrated outdoors and presided over by Bishop Ignatius Chama, Archbishop…
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Why Africa is at the heart of our mission?
The future cannot be predicted but it can be created gradually! It is understandable, then, when the patience becomes a virtue: the consecrated person creates a boundary between life and death to choose Life, because “He is faithful who called us“.
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Do not be afraid of Christ, you young people !
“Young people have false images of Jesus that often causes them to not to be attracted to him. They have an erroneous view of the Christian model, and therefore of its rules, which seems to keep ordinary people away. Thus, for some, Christianity is perceived as unreachable”.
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