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Tuxawa Donato, a leader among the indigenous tribe, sits with Sateré Mawé youth in native dress.

May 29, 2019 | By pime_admin | In Amazon, Brazil, Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Fr. Enrico Uggé, Giorgio Bernadelli, Human Rights, Indigenous People, Mission Work, Mission World, Missionaries, Missionary, Missionary Service, Missionary Work, Missions, PIME, PIME Mission Insight, PIME Missionaries, PIME Priest

The Missionary of the Sateré Mawé

By Giorgio Bernardelli When Fr. Enrico Uggé arrived in 1971, they were close to extinction. Today there are 10 times more of them, thanks to the Indigenous School. The boat docks and the children immediately appear on the bank. After all, it is a bit difficult to go unnoticed in a village like Simao, a […]

July 25, 2017 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Buddhist, Catholic, Father Pedro Tomaselli, First World Mission, Inter Religious Dialogue, Japan, Japanese, Mission Work, Mission World, PIME Missionaries, PIME Missionary, Shintoist, Syncretism, Tokyo

Christian Hearts in a Land of Syncretism

Fr. Pedro Tomaselli, PIME, Brazilian PIME Missionarry in Japan. Brazilian PIME Priest, Fr. Pedro Tomaselli, PIME, carries out his daily mission just north of the modern sprawl of Tokyo. On weekdays, this means that only two people attend Holy Mass, with a maximum of 100 people showing up on Sundays. Despite the low number of […]

May 30, 2017 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Christians, Father Salvatore Carzedda, Interreligious Dialogue, Jesus, Mindanao, Mission World, Muslims, Philippines, PIME Missionaries, Qur'an

Jesus and the Qur’an

By Fr. Giorgio Bernardelli Father Salvatore Carzedda, killed in Mindanao in 1992, had thoroughly studied the Muslim texts about Jesus looking for shared principles between Christianity and Islam. He is a martyr of the day-to-day dialogue between Christians and Muslims. Interfaith dialogue in the region was facilitated by the Silsilah Institute, the movement in which […]

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 […]

May 9, 2017 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Africa, Children, Guinea Bissau, Mission World, PIME Missionaries, Students

Guinea Bissau: A Work in Progress

By Fr. Giorgio LiciniA journey to discover the initiatives of the PIME missionaries and the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate in this small African country, carried out with the help of supporters and sponsorships. The plane from Casablanca landed in Bissau, one of the poorest cities in Africa and the capital of Guinea Bissau, in […]

May 2, 2017 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Father Salvatore Carzedda, Interreligious Dialogue, Mindanao, Mission World, Missionary Work, Philippines, PIME, PIME Missionaries, Priests

Courage for Dialogue in Mindanao

By Fr. Sebastiano D’Ambra Twenty-five years after the killing of Father Salvatore Carzedda in Zamboanga, the importance of continuing to promote encounters between Christians and Muslims is important to build an alternative to violence On May 20, 1992, Fr. Salvatore Carzedda, PIME missionary in Zamboanga City, was killed during a seminar held by the Silsilah […]

April 11, 2017 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Algeria, Algerian Refugees, Catholic, Mission World, PIME, PIME Missionaries, Refugees

Algeria Declares Open Season on Refugees

Since December 1st there has been an ongoing mass roundup of African refugees in Algerian neighborhoods. Those rounded up are deported to a camp in the Algerian city of Tamanrasset closer to border with Mali and Niger in order to be expelled. In Algeria all neighborhoods where there are sub-Saharan African migrants were surrounded by […]

April 4, 2017 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Catholic, Mission World, Mother Teresa, PIME, PIME Missionaries, St. Teresa, St. Teresa of Calcutta

St. Teresa of Calcutta and My Missionary Vocation

A Reflection by Fr. Gianluca Bellotti On September 19, 2016 a solemn Holy Mass was celebrated in the Tokyo Cathedral to mark the canonization of St. Teresa of Calcutta that took place in Rome a few days earlier (September 4). Archbishop Pedro Okada Takeo presided over the Eucharistic Celebration concelebrated by about thirty priests and […]

March 8, 2017 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Brazil, Catholic, Manaus, Mission World, PIME Missionaries, Prison Riots, USA

A Missionary in a Rioting Prison

The story of Father Bosco, a PIME missionary who celebrated Mass on New Year’s Day in the penitentiary where 60 people were killed in a clash between gangs. The Archdiocese of Manaus states: “The root of the problem lies in the privatization of prisons.” Fr. Bosco had witnessed the tensions between rival drug gangs in […]

March 1, 2017 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Brooklyn, Catholic, Chinese New Year, Mission Work, Mission World, New York, PIME Missionaries, USA

We Do What We Do, Not Because You Are Catholic, But Because We Are Catholic

A Reflection by Fr. Marco Brioschi, PIME Missionaries We don’t usually think of the United States as “mission territory.” However, much to my surprise, I discovered in my assignment to Brooklyn, New York, not only people from all over the world, but the need to re-define what I am called to do as a “missionary.” […]