Ivory Coast: 125 years (Episode 3)
SMA News of April
Mission experience of Fr. Evantus
The beginnings of evangelization in Côte d'Ivoire were promising. In 4 years, 7 missions and 7 schools were created.
In 1898, the OLA Sisters arrived. The mission of the Ivory Coast is thus definitely founded.
But the beginnings of this evangelization were also laborious.
Missionaries were quickly confronted with disease and death.
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Here we are again with a new episode of our SMA monthly news.
In this episode, we will go to Liberia, to meet Father Gary Henkins and the blind people of Bomi County; Then we will go to Tanzania, to discover the Tanga project; And we will end in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the formation house of Kimwenza which this year celebrates the silver jubilee of its foundation.
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Fr. Evantus is an SMA missionary who has been in South Africa for over 20 years; and that, since his ordination in 1999.
Fr. Evantus is from Nigeria. In this interview, he gives us an insight on certain certain areas of his missionary activity.
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Welcome back once again to this edition of SMA International News. We will cover events surrounding the conflict of Central African Republic; then we will look at the ongoing developments on the issue of human trafficking; and we willl have a look at the celebration of Ash Wednesday and lent in Ireland in the context of Covid-19.
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On October 28, 1895, Fathers Alexandre Hamard and Émile Bonhomme landed in Grand Bassam, sent by Father Augustin Planque, Superior General of the Society of African Missions, for a teaching mission.
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“When the eyes have nothing left to cling to the essentials may appear.”
On Saturday 13th February 2021, Michel Cartateguy - former Archbishop of Niamey, Niger - led a day of recollection with the theme; “a Sabbath day at the heart of the desert,” for the 17 SMA Fathers from 8 different countries who live together at MIM, (Maison International Missionnaire) in Lyon. It was a cold morning preceded by snow the previous day, the outside temperature was -6°c, but the chapel was warm.
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Many people often ask what Muslims and their community are doing in the face of rising radicalism and extremism within the Islamic world. We can take the example of what is happening in Kenya.
Religion is extremely important in the cultural, social, and political life of Kenyans. The Kenyan society is religiously plural with a majority of Christians, a minority of Muslims, a small percentage of Hindus, and a significant segment of the population that practices traditional religions or combines traditional practices with either Christianity or Islam. The Muslim community comprises about 10% of the Kenyan population.
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SMA Founder Bsp. Melchior Marion de Brésillac
Message from the Superior General and his councils
The Year of St. Joseph
