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How African Countries are Marking the Extraordinary Missionary Month

Oct 3, 2019

As the Catholic Church across the globe starts marking the Extraordinary Missionary Month of October 2019 (EMMOCT2019), which Pope Francis announced to commemorate the centenary of Pope Benedict XV's Apostolic Letter Maximum Illud (The great work of preaching the gospel to the whole world), local churches have scheduled specific activities.

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