AMERICA/URUGUAY - “Passionate Communicators of the Good News”: meeting for Cono sur Pontifical Mission Societies

Monday, 8 September 2014

Canelones (Agenzia Fides) – “Missionary Disciples, passionate communicators of the Good News,” is the theme of reflection and discussion for national Directors and Secretaries of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of the Cono Sur region, called to participate in a meeting from 11 to 14 September in Canelones (Uruguay).
The meeting will have two principal objectives, according to a statement sent to Fides: offer participants an opportunity for formation and discernment in order to identify concrete criteria for improving communications between the different National PMS Offices of Cono Sur; become familiar with possible strategies and keys of communications at the service of missionary animation, formation and cooperation from the prophetic perspective.
Friday 12 will be dedicated to the theme “The Pontifical Mission Societies and Mission ad Gentes” with reports from the different national Offices on situations, challenges and projects … followed by testimony by Uruguayan missionaries ad gentes working in Uruguay, and lastly a workshop on “Missionary Pastoral for Mission ad gentes”. Saturday 13 September will be a day of study and reflection, guided by a university docent, on the theme “Evangelisation and Communication ” articulated in two dimensions: communications at the service of our organisation, communication at the service of Evangelisation according to the charisma of the PMS. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 08/09/2014)


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