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June 11, 2021 | By pime_admin | In China, Evangelization, Fathers, Ivory Coast, Japan, Mission, Mission in China, Mission Work, Missionaries, Missionary, Missionary Service, Missionary Work, Missions, Myanmar, PIME, PIME Missionaries, PIME Missionary, PIME Priest, PIME Vocations, Priests

From the World, For the World

By Gabriele Monaco This year’s new PIME Missionaries – some will be ordained on Saturday June 12th in the Milan Cathedral with the rest in their own dioceses – they come from Africa, South America, and Asia. Two of these new missionaries are originally from Myanmar and are destined for China. They tell us their […]

January 13, 2021 | By pime_admin | In Brothers, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Current Events, PIME Brothers, PIME Missionaries, PIME Missionary, PIME Priest, Priests

Patience and Hope Even in the Face of COVID-19

By the PIME General Directorate The General Directorate of PIME, on the confrere-victims of the pandemic from the House of the Senior Missionaries in Rancio di Lecco. “We share the fate of all humanity’s suffering. Let us strengthen our fraternity and ask the Father to accomplish His will, even at this hour.” In recent days, […]

October 23, 2020 | By pime_admin | In Brazil, Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Charity, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Current Events, Fr. Ace Valdez, PIME, PIME Mission Insight, PIME Missionaries, PIME Missionary, PIME Priest, Social Justice, What we do, Where we are, Who we are, Witness

All Brothers

By Fr. Ace Valdez, PIME What follows happened to Fr. Ace Valdez, a PIME Missionary in São Paulo, Brazil. “On Sunday, a young man tried to rob me. It was from my chance meeting – which took place on the feast day of St. Francis – that I understood something more about my being a […]

September 18, 2020 | By pime_admin | In Amapá, Brazil, Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Fr. Ferruccio Brambillasca, India, Missionaries, Missionary, Missionary Service, PIME, PIME Missionaries, PIME Missionary, PIME Priest

PIME Mourns Fr. Nelson

Father Nelson Meshian, a young Indian PIME Missionary, died this past Sunday in India. Just as he was preparing to leave for Brazil in 2013, he discovered he had a brain tumor. His life was committed to the mission, within his suffering from a serious illness. PIME mourns the death of one of its young […]

July 23, 2020 | By pime_admin | In Catholic, PIME, PIME Missionaries, PIME Missionary, Uncategorized

Coronavirus in Rural India

By Giorgio Bernardelli Where are the thousands of rural, Indian migrants forced to leave the city because of the lockdown? Bishop Vijay Rayarala, PIME Missionary and Bishop of the Diocese of Srikakulam in Andhra Pradesh, India, explains the situation. “There are families from our parishes who arrived here on foot after having traveled thousands of […]

May 20, 2020 | By pime_admin | In Amapá, Amazon, Brazil, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Macapá, PIME Missionary, PIME Priest

Record Amazon Deforestation Amdist the Pandemic

By Andrea Guerra In April, the Amazon rainforest recorded a 171% increase in the rate of deforestation, the worst in ten years. Taking advantage of the controls made milder by anti-COVID measures, 328 square miles of forest were stolen, burnt down by corrupt farmers and ranchers. The Brazilian region of Parà was the most affected […]

May 11, 2020 | By pime_admin | In Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholicism, COVID-19, Fr. Maurizio Arioldi, helping with PIME, Hill Tribes, Modern Mission, MondoeMissione, PIME, PIME Missionaries, PIME Missionary, PIME Priest, Thailand, Uncategorized

Thailand, Ora et Labora During Lockdown

By Fr. Maurizio Arioldi, PIME The following is the testimony of Fr. Maurizio Arioldi, a PIME Missionary working in Ngao among the tribes of the mountains of northern Thailand during the Coronavirus pandemic. We publish it here not only for the story that he offers on what COVID-19 represents for Thailand today but also to […]

February 21, 2019 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In 70 Years Brazil Celebration, Amapá, Amazon, Brazil, Fr. Bouba Enock, Fr. Dante Bertolazzi, Fr. Lino Simonelli, Fr. Luigi Carlini, Macapá, PIME History, PIME Mission Insight, PIME Missionaries, PIME Missionary

Amapá: 70 Years of PIME in the Amazons

Amapá: 70 Years of PIME in the Amazons Fr. Bouba Enock confers with a young man after Mass. Fr. Bouba and Fr. Giancarlo Vecchiato travelgreat distances to share the Word with 100 communities along the banks of the Amazon. By Ana Claudia Machado In 1948, Bishop Pirovano and Fr. Cerqua arrived in Macapá, where the missionaries […]

February 13, 2019 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Bangladesh, Dhaka, Fr. Gian Paolo Gualzetti, Inter Religious Dialogue, Megalopolis, Muslim, PIME, PIME Mission Insight, PIME Missionary, Poverty, Social Justice, Urban Mission

A Worker’s Mission

Fr. Gian Paolo Gualzetti poses for a photo in front of a Mother Teresa mural in Dhaka, Bangladesh. By Anna PozziIn the industrial area on the outskirts of Dhaka, Fr. Gian Paolo Gualzetti carries out a very special apostolate: support for young workers who are often forced to work jobs that are exhausting, unsafe, and […]

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January 17, 2019 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Caritas, Caritas Australia, Climate Change, Current Events, Environment, Fr. Giorgio Licini, Pacific Islands, Papua New Guinea, PIME Mission Insight, PIME Missionary, Social Justice

Brother Ocean

Brother Ocean The Pacific Ocean viewed from Woodlark Island in Papua New Guinea, the station of the PIME Missionaries’first martyr, Blessed John Mazzucconi. By Fr. Giorgio Licini, PIME In Poland, the UN returns to discussing a report about climate by the Caritas of the Pacific states. An ecological question coincides with the recognition of the […]