Information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies since 1927
Valencia (Fides Service) - A simple touch on a pc screen in a parish or school will suffice to have information on diocesan missionaries, the country in which they work and the progress of mission projects funded by the diocese. This pilot touch-screen project in Spain is sponsored by the Ad Gentes Foundation. Using a touch-screen it will be possible to view a map of Valencia diocese’s missionaries, mission activities, statistics, projects, social situation of the countries in which they operate. This new project will also enable the local Catholics to see where their offerings go and encourage more generosity.. “The object of the project is to let the people of Valencia diocese know about their missionaries and their activity – the documentation office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain, tells Fides Service – another purpose is to make known the needs of the peoples in mission lands in view of increasing mission awareness and commitment to promoting integral development”.
The Ad Gentes Foundation is a canonical non profit foundation established in 1998 by the archdiocese of Valencia as an expression of the local Church’s solidarity with less developed peoples, promoting works of charity and apostolate to support the mission of evangelisation. The foundation has supported numerous projects in different countries all over the world (Taiwan, Mozambique, Tanzania, Argentina, Bolivia, El Salvador, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, etc.). Projects realised include: a Home for unmarried mothers and young girls in difficulty at Santa Cruz della Sierra (Bolivia); a multipurpose Hall in which to hold among other things elementary school classes for 165 indigenous families Purulha (Guatemala); a professional training school for 1.400 students in Lima (Peru). (R.Z) (Fides Service 9/10/2003; lines 24 - words 329)
