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Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) – The International Missiology Course, organized by the John Paul II Center, began January 25 at the National Headquarters of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS). This is the XXVIII Course in Missiology, which will end on February 13, where about 60 people who are participating from all over the country: priests, seminarians, and lay people. Also present were students from Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Venezuela and missionaries of various nationalities (Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia). The course is approved by the Pontifical Urban University and has the support of the Argentinean Bishops' Conference, through the Bishops' Commission for Missions.
According to information sent to Fides, the Opening Ceremony was presided by the National Director of PMS in Argentina, Fr. Osvaldo Pablo Leone, and Victorina Ramos, coordinator of the John Paul II Center for Missiology, that depends from the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU). Also present were the Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, from the Parish of Our Lady of Sorrows.
As those responsible explained, the course offers not only an opportunity for individual training, but also calls others on to share the wealth of their missionary experiences in fellowship, study, prayer, and the mission, "along with other brothers and sisters of different cultural expressions who, faithful to Jesus, continue to give their lives to Him who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life." (CE) (Agenzia Fides 03/02/2010)
