World Mission Sunday 2006

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DOSSIER FIDES: 80TH WORLD MISSION SUNDAY
VATICAN - The Pope’s Angelus on Mission Sunday: “Mission starts from the heart: when we stop to pray in front of the Crucifx, and we see that pierced side, we cannot fail to be filled with joy at the knowledge that we are loved and with a desire to love and be channels of mercy and reconciliation”
EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - Pontifical Mission Societies in Switzerland choose Madagascar as symbol country for missionary month of October and Mission Sunday
AMERICA/CUBA - World Mission Sunday in Cuba “prayer of thanksgiving for the many missionaries who have come from other countries to share the life of our Church and our country”
ASIA/PAKISTAN - “You evangelise”: meetings and catechesis in preparation for Mission Sunday. Children can be “little missionaries”
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - “Missionaries of Christ that all may have life in Him”: Mission Sunday 2006 to strengthen conviction that every true disciple must be missionary
ASIA/INDIA - Preparations for Mission Sunday Pontifical Mission Societies to celebrate “80 years of generosity, communion and sharing on every continent”
EUROPE/GERMANY - “I will not leave you nor forsake you” Tragedy of HIV/AIDS in east Africa Pontifical Mission Societies October mission aid focus
EUROPE/RUMANIA - Missionary Month of October: Oblates Missionaries of Mary Immaculate help children to understand and live the Pope’s message
VATICAN - Propaganda Fide venerates Relics of Saint Therese of Lisieux at the start of the missionary month of October: “Love is the soul of mission”
ASIA/PAKISTAN - In view of Mission Sunday 2006 lay Catholics attend apostolate formation Course promoted by Pontifical Mission Societies Pakistan
EUROPE/CZECH REPUBLIC - Building together “missionary bridge of prayer”: Pontifical Mission Societies initiative for 2006
October 2006: The Pope’s missionary prayer intention “May the celebration of World Mission Sunday intensify the spirit of missionary animation and cooperation everywhere”
Comment by Cardinal Ivan Dias Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples
ASIA/HONG KONG - Diocese intensifies preparation for World Mission Sunday
VATICAN - “Upendo, Kiini Cha Umisionari” Pope Benedict XVI’s Message for World Mission Sunday 2006 now in Swahili
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - The best way to celebrate is to "renew our apostolic fervour in order to be in a permanent state of mission" Bishop calls “Year of Intense Evangelisation” to mark 50th anniversary of the diocese
AMERICA/CANADA - Initiatives to increase missionary awareness in view of World Mission Sunday; new Holy Childhood web site and commitment
EUROPE/POLAND - “The recent pastoral visit which Pope Benedict XVI made to our country gave new impulse to our efforts to focus more clearly on missionary cooperation” says PMS national director illustrating numerous mission activities in the coming months.

""Charity, the soul of mission"

My dear brothers and sisters, World Mission Day is an appropriate occasion for better understanding that witness of love, soul of the mission, concerns everyone. Indeed to serve the Gospel can never be considered a solitary adventure, but a binding duty for every community.
(Pope Benedict XVI’s Message for World Mission Sunday 2006 n. 4 )

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