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Umuarama (Agenzia Fides) – The Diocese of Umuarama-Parana, Brazil sent Fides news on the conclusion of their seminar training mission that had as its central theme the "Mission Ad Gentes." The parish of St. Joseph the Worker, in Umuarama, hosted the lessons of the Diocesan School of Mission. Organizer Father Braz Lourenço de Oliveira, PIME, Ibiporã City, the Diocese of Londrina (PR), had 20 students as participants, in addition to members of the Diocesan Missionary Council (COMIDI) who were participating in a meeting to prepare the Annual Meeting of COMIDI. The seminar aimed at intensifying the training of young people and adults in accordance with the documents of the Church, especially the Aparecida Document. The mission is part of the life of the Church which, as a pilgrim, "is missionary by nature because she has her origin in accordance with the plan of God the Father, the 'mission' of the Son and the Holy Spirit" (Ad Gentes, 2).
The Diocesan Missionary Council (COMIDI) is an entity of the Diocese, with a mandate to reflect, evaluate, and promote the animation missionary in the Diocese. Its activities include training for the missionaries of popular missions, preparation and implementation of the missionary campaign, and the development of teaching materials, with themes related to the mission. The COMIDI's function is to provide missionary animation to parishes and communities in the diocese, with the deep desire that the local Church will be increasingly emerged in a permanent state of mission. (CE) (Agenzia Fides 18/11/2009)
