Vatican
City, 18 July 2013 (VIS) – The Fourth American Missionary Congress
(Ninth Missionary Congress of Latin America) has been convened for
this autumn (26 November – 1 December) by the Venezuelan Episcopal
Conference and the Pontifical Mission for the archdiocese of
Maracaibo, where the meeting will be held. The theme will be
"Missionary disciples of Jesus Christ in a secular and
multicultural world" and four thousand missionaries from all
over the continent are expected to attend.
The
American Missionary Congresses, explains the site dedicated to the
event, “are marked by the need to provide missionary forces of the
continent a favourable space to share and promote reflection,
spirituality and missionary experiences. Their purpose is to renew
the necessary and permanent commitment of the Church in Latin
America, called to fulfil the mission of the Lord beyond
geographical, cultural and religious differences”.
With
the slogan “Missionary America, share your faith”, twenty-two
forums have also been organised, led by experts who will discuss,
among other issues: missionary childhood and adolescence, subject and
future of the mission; the challenge of youth cultures to the mission
of the Church; the inculturation of the liturgy; evangelisation and
political ideas; the protection of creation; the missionary challenge
of human mobility; the centrality of the Word of God to the mission
of the Church; dialogue and proclamation to non-believers; the
proclamation of Jesus Christ in Afro-American and indigenous
cultures; popular religiosity, a way to evangelisation; evangelising
urban cultures: from the temple to the house; and mission and
ecumenism.
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