(ANS – Rome) – “Not only for 2015 but for all the six year period, we want real help to be given in certain mission areas where there is a degree of  special difficulty at this time.”These are the words of the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, reported in "Cagliero 11", the bulletin of missionary animation of the Missions Department of the Salesian Congregation.

Among the places mentioned by Fr Á.F. Artime, in need of new missionaries, are:

Missionary work in Amazonia, especially in Manaus, Campo Grande, and Venezuela …;

Missionary work in the Chaco Paraguayo;

Missionary work in some regions of the Pampas and of Argentine Patagonia;

A missionary presence among the immigrant communities in the United States;

A missionary presence in the Middle East, in addition to being tremendously afflicted by a variety of armed conflicts with which we are familiar;

A missionary presence among the Muslims of North Africa, the countries of the Arabian Gulf and Pakistan …;

A new missionary presence required by the Project Europe which is concerned in large measure with the emarginated as a result of the various migrations;

Strengthening of the new missionary presences for first evangelisation in Asia and Oceania: Mongolia, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Laos …

Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, SDB

(from AGC 419)

Published 13/03/2015