Bogota (Fides Service) -- A "Course in Missionary Pastoral and Animation", promoted by the Council of Latin American Bishops' Conferences (CELAM) through ITEPAL and DEMIS (Theological Institute for Pastoral for Latin America and the Department of Missions), in collaboration with the Pontifical Saverian University, was opened yesterday 22 April, in Bogotà. The course which, will last until June, will offer 180 hours of lessons for directors of missionary pastoral, Missionary Childhood workers, Docents of Missiology and pastoral workers from Colombia, Cuba, Curacao, Salvador e Paraguay. The course aims to offer participants biblical-theological-pastoral reflections on the missionary and the missionary activity of the Church. Study themes of considerable importance will be addressed by Latin American experts: Phenomenology of the religious fact and evangelisation (Fr. Juan Bottasso, SDB - Ecuador); Kerigma, New Evangelisation, Pastoral of Conservation and Catechesis ( Fr. Gustavo de Jesús Vélez Vásque - Colombia); History of evangelisation. La Missione in e dall'America (Fr. Joaquín García OSA - Perú); Christian mission in the context of sectsa nd new reelious movements (Ms Amparo Beltrán - Colombia); Evangelizzazione, promozione umana e valori del Regno (Edgar Antonio López - Colombia); Spirituality and Missionary Animation (Fr. Efrén Baldasso - Colombia). (R.Z.) ((Fides Service 23/4/2003 EM lines 16 Words: 197)