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Fr. Joakim Kamau Njani during the online seminar on “Popular Mission” organized by the Daughters of St Paul in Nairobi ahead of World Mission Sunday. / ACI Africa.

“Mission, an enterprise we must do in togetherness”: Kenyan Cleric Ahead of Mission Sunday

Oct 18, 2020

The need to cultivate fraternal collaboration in the ministry of evangelization has been emphasized on the eve of World Mission Sunday, an annual event when Catholics across the globe renew their commitment to their missionary vocation and implore God’s graces for the missions worldwide.

Pope Francis gives the Angelus address Aug. 30, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media.

“It is necessary to affirm God’s primacy in human life and in history”: Pope Francis

Oct 18, 2020

Catholics, by virtue of their baptism, must affirm to the world God’s primacy in human life and in history, Pope Francis said Sunday.

Pope Francis. Credit: Vatican Media

Missions Should Facilitate Encounter with Christ, Not Complicate It, Pope Francis Says

May 21, 2020

Missionary work is a cooperation with the Holy Spirit to bring people to Christ; it does not benefit from overcomplicated programs or fancy advertising campaigns, Pope Francis said Thursday.

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Bureaucratic “pastoral dynamics” a Threat to Church’s Mission in Africa, A Reflection

Nov 17, 2019

As the Church in Africa continues to be missionary to itself by having clergy and religious men and women crossing diocesan and national ecclesiastical borders to evangelize following the 1969 encouragement of Pope Saint Paul VI to the people of God in Africa, a missionary serving on the continent has cautioned that the tendency of pastoral agents to enjoy a system of administration that obliges the laity to find them in offices rather than mutual interactions seems to hinder effective evangelization.

Pope Francis greets young people in Madagascar Sept. 7, 2019. Credit: Edward Pentin/CNA.

Jesus Has a Mission for Youth in Madagascar, Pope Francis Says at Vigil

Sep 7, 2019

Jesus has called you and has entrusted a mission to you, Pope Francis told a crowd of young people at a prayer vigil in Antananarivo, Madagascar Saturday.