Mexico - PIME Missionaries

Fr. Pat Murphy washes the feet of a Latin-American boy on Holy Thursday.

May 10, 2019 | By pime_admin | In American Priest, Anna Pozzi, Asylum Seekers, Border, Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Current Events, Displaced, Immigrants, Immigration, Mercy, Mexico, Mission, Mission in Mexico, Missionaries, Missionary Service, Missions, Modern Mission, Uncategorized

Beyond the Wall

By Anna Pozzi At the Migrant House in Tijuana, close to the border, the Scalabrinian Missionaries welcome Central American immigrants and Mexicans deported from the US. Their mission: to try to give them a future in the new year, and beyond. “We start 2019 with a lot of momentum, and many projects, one of these […]

March 22, 2019 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Border, Cardboard City, Cartonera, Ecatapec, Fr. Damiano Tina, Fr. Deodato Mammana, Indigenous People, Mexico, Mexico City, Mission in Mexico, Native Mexicans, PIME Mission Insight, Poverty, Social Justice

Among the Least of the Cardboard City

Among the Least of the Cardboard City By Fr. Mario Ghezzi, PIME Fr. Damiano Tina, a PIME Missionary at Ecatepec, works in one of the shanty towns on the outskirts of Mexico City: “I’m here to stay with those who live on the edges of society. Often I meet the Lord, who is already working […]

July 18, 2017 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Cartels, Catholic, Father Giovanni Manco, Ignored, Indigenous People, La Concordia, Mexico, Mixteco, Native Mexicans, Neglected, PIME Missionaries, Poverty, Social Justice

The Invisible Made Visible

By Fr. Giovanni Manco Threatened by globalization and by discriminatory policies historically put in place by their governments. Indigenous peoples of Latin America are now seeking a way to reassert themselves. They want their voices heard again, even in the Church. They clamor to be the leading protagonists in a “new possible world”. In many quarters […]

July 11, 2017 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Catholic, Father Ferdinand Komenan Kouadio, La Concordia, Mexico, Mixteco, Native Mexicans, PIME Missionaries

Enculturation is Part of the Missionary Work of PIME

By Fr. Ferdinand Komenan At long last the two volumes of the first Mixteco Grammar by Fr. Ferdinand Kouadio Komenan, PIME are in Mexico bookstores. This daring idea came to me from different, converging directions. As a young man, at home in the Ivory Coast, I appreciated the work of two missionary priests who labored […]

May 23, 2017 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Fathers, Mexico, Mission World, PIME, PIME Missionaries, Priests

Priests in the Crosshairs – PIME in Mexico

By Ferdinand KomenanOver the past four years, according to data released by the Mexican Catholic Church, 15 priests were murdered. And from 2005 to 2016, of the nearly 140 “pastoral agents” (priests, religious, laity) killed in the world, nearly half were killed in Latin America. With the assassination of Fr. Joaquín Hernandez Sifuentes, that took […]

February 28, 2017 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Mexico, PIME Missionaries

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 […]

February 28, 2017 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Mexico, PIME Missionaries

Joys and Challenges: Life in the Missions of Mexico

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 […]

February 28, 2017 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Mexico, PIME Missionaries

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 […]

February 28, 2017 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Mexico, PIME Missionaries

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 […]

February 28, 2017 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Mexico, PIME Missionaries

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 […]