Agenzia Fides report - On the eve of the beginning of Missionary Month, from September 26 to 28, the meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) and other missionary organizations in Poland took place, in the town of Niepokalanów. According to information sent to Fides by father Tomasz Atlas, the National Director of the PMS in Poland, the first report that the participants heard concerned the missionary dimension of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe. The second report instead described the problems concerning the new African state of South Sudan, since the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood will destine to the children of the African state the donations collected through the Christmas iniative of the "Star Singers". During the meeting other issues were also faced: the missionary commitment of young people and the activities of groups of the living Rosary, founded by Pauline Jaricot, also founder of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith. The 150th anniversary of Jaricot’s death (January 9, 1862) was also announced and the celebration of the ninth National Congress of Missionary Childhood, in June next year. His Exc. Mgr. Wiktor Skworc, Bishop of Tarnow, President of the Episcopal Commission for Missions, presided the closing Mass of the meeting. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 10/10/2011)
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