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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 […]

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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 […]

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December 14, 2018 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Algeria, Algerian Martyrs, Beatification, Fr. Piero Masolo, Inter Religious Dialogue, Martyrs, Mission Dangers, Orano, PIME Missionaries, PIME Missionary, Tibhirine Monks, Vocations

The Saints Next Door

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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December 13, 2018 | By PIMEMissionariesUSA | In Evangelization, Fr. Andrea Lembo, Japan, Modern Mission, PIME Missionaries, PIME Missionary, Spiritual Mission, Synod for Youth, Tokyo, Young People, Youth

A Mission in the Megalopolis of Tokyo

A Mission in the Megalopolis of Tokyo Fr. Andrea Lembo, PIME, works with young people to help those spiritually lost in the sprawling mega-city of Tokyo, Japan. By Emanuela Citterio Facing the challenge presented by the boys and girls of the Japanese capital means meeting them in their physical and existential places. This is the story […]

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