Segunda-feira, 23 de Janeiro de 2017
“O contexto hodierno da missão – escreve o P. Estêvão Raschietti, missionário xaveriano italiano, que trabalha há mais de 20 anos no Brasil – não é mais aquele do nosso Fundador ou da nossa Fundadora, nem aquele dos arquétipos de nossa imaginação, nem o destemido de épocas relativamente recentes. A missão não está mais para a romântica aventura, o generoso improviso, o impávido heroísmo: muito menos para o irresponsável despacho de sujeitos incômodos e problemáticos. Pelo contrário, o paradigma da missão leva hoje a vida religiosa consagrada (VRC) como um todo e a partir de dentro, a um profundo, radical e essencial repensamento de suas estruturas, de sua compreensão, de suas relações, de seus projetos e de seus horizontes, assim como é proposto pelo Documento de Aparecida ao conjunto de dioceses, paróquias, comunidades, movimentos e instituições das Igrejas latino-americanas e caribenhas.”
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Venerdì 27 gennaio 2017
“Nel 2006, in vista della preparazione del 150° anniversario della Società delle missioni africane (SMA), i confratelli incaricati dei mass-media in Europa si sono riuniti per produrre una rivista comune, in formato digitale, in modo che ogni entità SMA potesse tradurla, aggiungendovi le informazioni legate al proprio Paese, per poi stamparla e diffonderla. Fu un esperimento riuscito che ci ha fatto vedere che era possibile fare qualcosa a livello internazionale. Durante l'Assemblea Generale della SMA nel 2007 è stata decisa la creazione di un Centro internazionale di comunicazione per l'Istituto. La casa madre di Lione aveva i locali e gli archivi audiovisivi necessari per iniziare questa esperienza”, spiega P. Gérard Sagnol, SMA francese, che presenta questo nuovo servizio, la cui sede è a Lione, in Francia, sulla rivista SMAnotizie di dicembre scorso.
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
For months now Pope Francis and the Iraqi Church have been imploring us not to "stand silently by" "or "look the other way" as our brothers and sisters are persecuted because of their faith. The Pope is also asking Christians to "pray intensely" in an "effective participation" and sign of "tangible support" for all of them. This is why, some time ago, AsiaNews launched the campaign "Adopt a Christian from Mosul" which has allowed us to raise and send approximately 1.5 million Euros to support the daily needs of Iraqi refugees who fled Mosul under the threat of the Islamic State. Their needs continue to be enormous and their return home far from immediate. Because of this, the bishops are planning the transition from emergency plans that have been in place until now to a more stable relief program. This will entail the transfer of all the Christian refugees - about 130 thousand people, 21 thousand families - to houses, where they can restart their lives, get a job, think about their children's future. AsiaNews asks our readers and friends to continue to support our campaign "Adopt a Christian from Mosul" so we can help cover the costs of this project, which amounts to an estimated 3.5 million euro.
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Forty Comboni Missionaries and Comboni Sisters stationed in the provinces of Europe took part in the Limone Symposium 2016, an event organized by the European Group of Theological Reflection that took place at St. Daniel Comboni’s birthplace on the shores of Lake Garda in Limone, Italy from March 29 to April 2. The topic for this year was, “Migration and Mission.” Refugees ad migrants must be treated s brothers and sisters and seen as an opportunity for building a more pluralistic society and for strengthening inter-religious dialogue. The European Union should stop the sale of weapons and should instead foster an end to injustice and war. What follows is the Statement of the Comboni Family, signed by the participants of the Symposium.
Monday, January 18, 2016
The paper “The Preferential Choice of the Poor and Social Commitment in the Institute of the Comboni Missionaries”, written by Fr. Mariano Tibaldo [in the picture], has been inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Pact of the Catacombs (6 November 1965) and analyses the significance that the Comboni Institute gives to ‘poverty’, the identity of the poor vis-à-vis evangelization ad gentes and the process by which, in the Comboni reflection, the poor are transformed from ‘privileged reference persons’ into subjects of the mission; Finally, the article analyses the relationship between social work and evangelization. This text takes into account the main documents of the Institute from 1969 to 2015. The Chapter Acts of 1969 and 1975 are those of the Sons of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (FSCJ), that is, with an Italian majority of members.
Monday, November 30, 2015
Last Friday ended the 86th Biannual Assembly of the Union of Superiors General (USG). The theme of the assembly was “To embrace the future with hope. The consecrated persons on a journey with the people of God”. The participants – including the Superior General of the Comboni Missionaries, Fr. Tesfaye Tadesse Gebresilasie –, meeting from 25 to 27 November at the Salesianum in Rome, reflected on the recent Synod on the family and elected the new president of the USG, in the person of Fra’ Mauro Jöhri, minister general of the Capuchin friars minor. Fra’ Jöhri succeeded Fr. Adolfo Nicolás Pachón, superior general of the Society of Jesus. Pictures: ANS.
Martedì 24 novembre 2015
I comboniani P. Dario Bossi, che lavora in Brasile, e P. Rafael González Ponce, in Ecuador, hanno partecipato agli incontri delle due reti Iglesias y Minería e Red Eclesial Panamazónica, che si sono svolti dal 12 al 20 novembre, a Bogotá, capitale della Colombia. Queste reti si occupano di problemi che colpiscono i paesi e le popolazioni della regione amazzonica e svolgono attività pastorali per la promozione e la tutela della vita sociale e ambientale. “La nostra partecipazione agli incontri – ha detto P. Dario – può essere utile per ridare slancio alla nostra priorità comboniana verso il mondo indigeno e impegnarci sempre di più con i problemi sociali e ambientali dell’Amazzonia”