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Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies, Nigeria, has concluded a two-day meeting/workshop for the members of the Pontifical Missionary Union of Priests and Religious. The meeting was held at the John Paul II Pastoral Centre, Makurdi, according to a statement sent to Agenzia Fides. There were 61 participants representing 24 dioceses and 4 Religious Congregations.
After the Mission Congress held at Onitsha in September last year (see Fides 4/10/2007), the Pontifical Mission Societies have been organizing series of Workshops and meetings to work out strategies for the practical implementation of the Mission Congress Resolutions.
The members of the PMU are to intensify their effort at making the PMU the soul of the other arms of the PMS in Nigeria. The members would intensify their missionary awareness campaign in the parishes, schools and hospitals. Part of this would be the taking off of the Family Missionary Movement and the Missionary Movement of the Sick and the Aged.
Previously, the National Missionary Council of Nigeria in a meeting held at the Pope John Paul II Centre, Abuja, January 29-31, 2008, had also worked on the Proposals for the implementation of the Resolutions of the First National Mission Congress. The proposals were worked out at the National Council of the PMS held in the Benedictine Monastery in Ewu-Ishan, Auchi diocese in November 2007 and has been approved by the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria.
The next Mission Congress is slated for the year 2011. (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides 3/3/2008; righe 21, parole 243)
