EUROPE/ITALY - Made public acts of Continental Meetings for Italian Fidei Donum missionaries; to re-launch in Italy this missionary experience an official Study on 50 years of Fidei Donum in Italy will be presented at 4th National Meeting for Directors of Diocesan Mission Centres

Rome (Agenzia Fides) - “To the ends of the earth. From fecund memories to bold prospects ”: is the title of a Paper issued by the secretariat of the Italian Bishops Conference CEI on three Meetings held respectively in Brazil, Thailand and Kenya, which brought together Italian priests and lay men and women presently on mission in various parts of the world. “For the CEI National Office for Missionary Cooperation among Churches - the director Mgr Giuseppe Pellegrini explains- this was a wonderful opportunity to meet individually about 700 fidei donum actually serving, to give a face to many names hitherto only read in reports and letters. Attentive and continual listening to their experience and the ensuing reflections, will not fail to bear fruit in our work in the next few years”.
The 50th anniversary of the Encyclical Fidei donum will be given ample space during the 4th National Meeting for Directors and collaborators of Diocesan Mission Centres 17 - 20 September at Isola delle Femmine, province of Palermo, on the theme “They set out and preached everywhere - for a mission without frontiers”. Among the objectives of the meeting to re-launch in local Churches the Fidei Donum experience. During the meeting an official Study on 50 years of Fidei Donum in Italy undertaken by the National Office will be presented. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 15/9/2007; righe 17, parole 232)