by Communications | Feb 23, 2021 | International Missions, News, Nuntia, Vincentian Missions
A Vincentian priest has made it his life’s work to “go out to the margins” of society and try to restore dignity to the “living scraps” of a “throwaway culture”. Pedro Opeka CM, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize… again. “God’s Mason,” “Mother Teresa with...
by Communication Cont | Jan 27, 2021 | International Missions, News
For the second time during the administration of Fr. Tomaž Mavrič the Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to the Holy See has responded positively to a request from Fr. Tomaž to help the Vincentian Solidarity Office fund a project, this time for the Region of...
by CM Communications | Oct 27, 2020 | International Missions, News, Vincentian Missions
In 1847, members of the Congregation of the Mission in Spain arrived in Cuba to accompany the Daughters of Charity. Later, other Spanish priests arrived in Cuba, confreres who were forced to flee Mexico because of persecution. These members of the Congregation...
by CM Communications | Oct 25, 2020 | International Missions, News, Vincentian Missions
The presence of the Congregation of the Mission in Tunisia in its current version dates from September 2011 and it is at the request of the archbishop of the time Monsignor Maroun Laham that the superior general Father Gregory Gay sent two missionaries welcomed to...
by CM Communications | Oct 23, 2020 | International Missions, News, Vincentian Missions
Our presence in Rwanda is intimately linked to an historical fact: the genocide against the Tutsis and the war that Rwanda experienced between 1990 and 1998. There was great chaos in the country: many bishops and priests had been assassinated while the greater...
by CM Communications | Oct 22, 2020 | International Missions, News, Vincentian Missions
The International Mission in Angola is a young mission, just six years and five months old … and that marked the formal beginning of the evangelization of the poor which was promoted by the Congregation of the Mission in that part of the world. According to Father...
