AMERICA/MEXICO - Assessing preparations for CAM 3, COMLA 5 and study of new PMS statutes focus of Meeting for PMS National Directors of America

Wednesday, 5 April 2006

Mexico City (Fides Service) - From 21 to 24 March the 2nd meeting for National Directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies in America was held in Mexico City. The participants were 31 delegates from the PMS national offices in Canada, USA, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile e Brazil. Also present from Rome Rev. Vito del Prete, secretary general of the Pontifical Missionary Union.
Themes discussed included: preparation for the celebration of CAM 3 (Third American Mission Congress) in Quito (Ecuador) 11 to 16 August 2008; examination of new Pontifical Mission Societies Statutes and Vademecum with the assistance of a Mexican expert on Canon Law; preparations for the 5th General Conference of the Council of Latin American Bishops Conferences at the Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida (Brazil) in 2007 with the slogan “Disciples and missionaries of Jesus Christ that our countries may have life in Him; Missionary Youth. The 3rd Meeting for PMS National Directors of America will be held 27 February 3 March 2007 in Lima (Peru). The first such meeting was held in March 2005 in Brasilia (Brazil). (RG) (Agenzia Fides 5/4/2006 - Righe 11, parole 157)


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