A World of Mission – April 2025 Highlights

Check out these links from around the world, provided by Fides.org and others:

• Africa. The bishops of Rwanda and Burundi call for peace in the region. 
• Africa. An interfaith initiative in Mali distributes food and advocates for social cohesion during Lent and Ramadan. 
• Asia. The Catholic community in Myanmar launches humanitarian aid and calls for ceasefire in the wake of a March 28 earthquake. 
• Asia. Archbishop Nappa celebrates the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Korean Pontifical Mission Societies in Seoul. 
• Caribbean. A Camillian missionary priests helps forge paths for human and economic development in Haiti. 
• Caribbean. Two Haitian Little Sisters of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus were killed by gangs.  
• Holy Land. An ecumenical group which includes Jesuit Father David Neuhaus and Father Frans Bouwen of the Missionaries of Africa has issued a statement addressing the suffering of people in the Holy Land.
• Latin America. Familia Grande Hogar de Cristo, dedicated to participating in the lives of the poor in Buenos Aires, celebrates its seventeenth anniversary. 
• Vatican. Pope Francis issue a Lenten call for global peace. 
• Vatican. Blessed Carlo Acutis will be canonized on April 27, 2025, and crowds of pilgrims are already visiting his shrine in Assisi.