AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - VI American Missionary Congress: more than 12,000 participants expected

Tuesday, 19 November 2024 evangelization missionary animation cam 6

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Ponce (Agenzia Fides) - More than 12,000 people are expected today in the city of Ponce for the official opening ceremony of the VI American Missionary Congress (CAM6). The opening of CAM6 will take place at 8:00 a.m. local time in the "Juan Pachín Vicéns" Auditorium in Ponce with a Eucharistic celebration presided over by Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, Archbishop Emeritus of Caracas and Papal Legate. About 1,300 delegates from the entire American continent and from all the dioceses of Puerto Rico will participate.
The missionary event, which begins today and includes a dense program of talks, testimonies, moments of sharing missionary experiences, will end next Sunday, November 24, and is the culmination of a journey that began in 2018 with reflection to encourage mission on the continent and in the world. The fundamental tool from which it starts is the fruit of listening, reflection and discernment in a synodal missiological key that took place mainly in the Church of Puerto Rico and in the National Directions of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States and in the Pontifical Mission Societies in Rome, focusing on three themes: "In the Power of the Spirit," "Witnesses of Christ," "To the Ends of the Earth."
"For the first time in 47 years, an American Missionary Congress is being held in the Caribbean, which is a historic event for Puerto Rico," explains the coordinator of CAM6, Father José Orlando Camacho Torres (CSSp). "These congresses began in Mexico in 1977, are held every six years and the last one was held in Bolivia in 2018."
The theme is “Evangelizers with the Spirit, to the ends of the earth”; the logo is composed of the “torch of faith”, the fire of the Holy Spirit, as the protagonist of the mission; the globe of the earth, which refers to the missionary task “ad-gentes”, the image of the Virgin Mary “Star of Evangelization”, under the invocation of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of America and finally the cross of the sacrifice of salvation in Jesus Christ that embraces all peoples. The opening ceremony will be broadcast live in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese on the official social media channels (facebook@CAM6 Puerto Rico and YouTube@CAM6 Puerto Rico). The most important moments of the event will also be broadcast on social networks and made available in different languages. (EG) (Agenzia Fides, 19/11/2024)