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Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – The international Missiology Symposium's theme will be: “Secularization today and in the future, challenge to the mission”, to be held from 24 to 27 January in Caracas (Venezuela) and which will reunite representatives from the American ecclesial community to reflect on today's challenges which confront the mission of the Church. According to information send to Fides by the national directorate of Venezuela for the Pontifical Missionary Society (PMS), 120 people representing all American Countries will attend the Symposium, who, through conferences and workshops men will address the issue of secularisation as a current and future challenge to the mission, in view of the Fourth American Missionary Congress (CAM 4) to be held in Venezuela in 2013.
The initiative concerns the whole Church in America, which is preparing for the Fourth American Missionary Congress as a deeply renewing experience of the faith and of missionary and Christian commitment. Each local Church indeed, expresses and solicits its process of maturing within the American continent, open to the world, with her own fears and hopes, joys and sorrows, weaknesses and strengths. The Symposium will be opened on the afternoon of Monday, 24 January. Bishop Reinaldo Del Prette of Valencia and Head of the Continental Mission in Venezuela, will open reflections on the Continental Mission, while the opening Mass of the Symposium will be presided over by Archbishop Baltazar Porras of Mérida and member of the CELAM Presidency. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 19/1/2011)
