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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Saints Next Door By Fr. Piero Masolo, PIME In Algeria for the past four years, a PIME Missionary re-reads the figures of the 19 Algerian martyrs to be beatified: “I often feel that they are accompanying me.” “Our Church is experiencing an intense joy, we are given the grace of being able to remember […]
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