The mission has been warmly welcomed by the mostly Muslim community near the Shirroro River where Ad Gentes will be based. The tribal chief there gave 25 acres on which Ad Gentes will build a ...

Pope Francis' Message for the 2019 World Mission Day highlights the announcement of the Gospel to non-Christian peoples to the ends of the world. A correction to negligence and reductionism in the ...

Ad Gentes. Decree on the Mission Activity of the Church. Promulgated by Pope Paul VI on Dec. 7, 1965 The best defense is a good offense. That is the theme of the Second Vatican Council’s 50-year ...

The long road towards unity in recognizing the value of mission ad gentes, of the missionaries, the young Churches and Propaganda Fide. A witness of the Council speaks (Part Three).

The participants emphasised the need to “promote missionary spirituality , animation and formation continually in seminaries, houses of formation, among pastoral workers and among all the laity”, ...

Mission ad extra (outward from ourselves): “This was always an essential element of the mission ad gentes—the “going out” from our familiar place and culture to a new place to bring the ...

On Saturday morning, Pope Benedict XVI met with delegates taking part in an international congress marking the 40th anniversary of the Vatican Council II Decree "Ad gentes. He told them that the ...

VATICAN - “Re-launch mission ad gentes with courage”: Presentation of "Eucharist and Mission" Pope John Paul II’s Message for World Mission Sunday 2004 (24 October) Thursday, 29 April 2004 AFGHANISTAN ...

The expression ‘ad gentes’ comes from the words of Christ who told his disciples to “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.” (Mk 16,15) The Second Vatican Council ...

In anticipation of World Mission Sunday, the Holy Father released his message on missions today. Benedict’s call to the Church is to respond to, “the urgent need to re-launch missionary ...