A World of Mission - April 2025 Highlights - United States Catholic Mission Association

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.