Agenzia Fides REPORT – The sessions of the Missionary Training Course begun August 2 ended on August 27 with a Mass presided by two bishops of Guinea Bissau. According to information sent to Fides from the Curia of Bissau. The course was attended by 20 missionaries, religious and lay people, from 13 different nationalities, who had the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of the local language and were introduced into the social-cultural context of Guinea Bissau. Among the topics discussed during the meetings were: inter-ethnic and interreligious dialogue, inculturation and initiation, forms of evangelization, social and political situation of the country. The closing the course featured the Mass presided over by Bishop Jose Camnate na Bissign of Bissau. The Bishop of Bafata, Bishop Carlos Pedro Zilli, addressed the new missionaries urging them to always feel sent, making an effort to offer their presence in the community, more so than material things. On the eve of the course for new missionaries, the Church of Guinea Bissau experienced an event of great joy and intense prayer with the priestly ordination of Fr. Gaudencio Francisco Pereira, age 35, Guinea-Bissau's first priest to be ordained in the PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions), and the 2nd African in the Institute. The ordination was celebrated in the Parish of “Nossa Senhora de Fátima,” on July 31, presided by the Bishop of Bissau, Archbishop José Camnate na Bissign. Gaudencio Pereira comes from a religious family. One year after having received baptism in 1996, he entered the Minor Seminary of São Kizito, after which he decided to enter the PIME. He studied philosophy and theology in Brazil and Italy. PIME Missionaries have been present in Guinea-Bissau since 1947.
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