By Fr. Ferdinand Kouadio Komenan, PIME My joys as a missionary are many. I have the happiness of feeling loved and knowing that I am helpful to others; I experience the spirit of hospitality of the Mexican people; I know the joy and surprise of experiencing new things; I feel the true love of the […]
Hope Amid Tragedy – Missionaries Respond to Storm Damage in Mexico
By Fr. Giovanni Manco, PIME What started as just another rainy weekend became more tragic than we could have imagined. Starting on Saturday, September 14 rains poured on our shores, creating devastating scenarios. Our people are suffering greatly, but we are currently facing the situation with hope, even amid tragedy and pain. The Archdiocese of […]
Doing Small Things with Great Love
By Kathleen Connors In January, PIME Missionary Medical Relief Program Director Barbara Rubaie asked me if I could accompany and assist the annual dental mission to Mexico. Doctors Barry Lofreddo and Donald DeLuke and the Parish of St. Kateri Tekakwitha in Schenectady, NY, have sponsored this trip for the last several years. The doctors were […]
Hope for Mothers and Babies – Nursing Care Makes the Difference at Touloum Hospital
By Br. Fabio Mussi, PIME As soon as we set in motion all departments of our new diocesan hospital of Touloum, we were forced to come to grips with organizational glitches relative to the required specializations. The professional training of hospital personnel and the tasks assigned to each of them is different in Cameroon from […]
House of Bread – Bethlehem Foundation is Changing Lives in Africa
By Joelle Christille Greetings to you all from the savanna of the northern most region of Cameroon. The rainy season should be here already but it is late in coming. Some rain falls, but nowhere near in the quantity required to soften the hard clay and ready the soil to receive the seeds for a […]
I Learned to Be Truer to Myself – A Missionary Reflects
By Fr. Maurizio Bhezzi, PIMEI have been in Cameroon since 1987. I spent the first four years in the northern-most part of the country and then went to Yaoundè in 1991. Yaoundè, Cameroon’s capital, is home to about two million people. From the beginning I have been working with street youngsters, young people hardened by […]
Children of Cameroon Deserve an Education
“I Want to Go to School” By Br. Fabio Mussi, PIME Fatimatou is five years old. She lives in Kousseri with her family of nine. In addition to her parents and grandmother, Fatimatou has three sisters and two brothers. With the exception of Aminatà, her three-year-old little sister, her other four siblings are all of […]
More Precious Than Gold – Water is the Greatest Treasure in Sub-Saharan Africa
By Brother Fabio Mussi, PIMEBr. Fabio is coordinator of the CODASC (Diocesan Management of Social and Charitable Activities) program in Cameroon. Awa walks four miles every day, not as part of a fitness program but to draw water from a distant village well. Her water tank holds six gallons that she carries back home on […]
Bringing Smiles to Mexico
Dentists make annual visit to the missions in Mexico. Every year for the last four years, in the middle of June, former childhood friends and dentists by occupation, Dr. Donald DeLuke and Dr. Barry Loffredo of Schenectady, N.Y. begin their phone calls to each other to plan their annual week-long January dental missionary trip to […]
A Brief History of PIME’s Mexican Mission
By Fr. Ferdinad Kouadio Komenan, PIMEThis article was originally published in Mondo e Missione magazine, written just before Pope Francis’ visit to Mexico in February 2016. The first PIME Missionaries set foot in Mexico in 1895 and worked in the diocese of La Paz, in the State of Baja California until 1926. After a hiatus […]
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