Missions-Evangelisation
General Secretariat for Missions and Evangelisation
The General Secretariat for the Missions and Evangelisation animates the vocation of all Friars for the “raison d’etre of the Order”: the Evangelisation mission. It is its duty to promote the special vocations for the “ad gentes” mission. It promotes and supports all forms of Evangelisation and promotes international collaboration between the Conferences of Provincial Ministers.
- The Secretariat is structured in two sectors: mission and evangelisation animation with this
Personnel:
- Br. Massimo Tedoldi ofm (Liguriae SS. Cordis B.V.M. Prov. – ITALIA)
General Secretary and Missionary Animator – Tel. +39.0668491201 – eMail: missgen@ofm.org. - Br. Arturo Ríos Lara ofm (SS. Petri et Pauli – MEXICO)
Evangelisation Animator – Tel. +39.0668491232 – eMail: evangen@ofm.org.
SGFS Congress in Brazil
From twelve countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, 113 friars, 7 religious and 24 lay people gathered from April 21-27, 2013, for the II Latin American Congress on Evangelization. The Meeting point was the city of Canindé, located in the north-east of Brazil, in a true Franciscan cloister, where everything speaks of St. Francis of Assisi; it is the destination of many pilgrims, devotees of St. Francis das Chagas (of the wounds). In addition to their good example, the fraternal hospitality of the Province of St. Antony of Brazil and of the local fraternity was the first evangelization which the Congress participants received. (more…)
Annual Meeting Russia-Kazakhstan
The Friars of the Franciscan Foundation of Russia – Kazakhstan went up to the mountain of La Verna, this year, for their annual meeting. May 1-3, 2013, were days of prayer, fraternity, and assessment of the life and mission of this group of Friars Minor who work in the vast lands of the East. From the Curia, in attendance were the Vicar General, Br. Michael Perry, Br. Ernest Siekierka, Definitor General for that region of the world, and Br. Massimo Tedoldi, Secretary General of Missions and Evangelization. (more…)
Session of Inter-Franciscan Missionary Formation
From April 1-4, 2013 Br. Michael A. Perry, Vicar General of the Order of Friars Minor, facilitated the Session of Inter-Franciscan Missionary Formation at the “Notre-Dame des Nations” International Fraternity in Brussels. (more…)
Missionary Formation in Egypt
A week of Ongoing Formation dedicated to the missionary spirit, the soul of every type of evangelization. This is the commitment which the Province of the Holy Family of Egypt wanted to experience from March 11-15, 2013. Over fifty Friars, representing about thirty Friaries scattered throughout the country, attended the meetings offered by Br. Massimo Tedoldi, SGME. (more…)
Forming for the Mission
As in previous years, on Wednesday, March 6, 2013, a formation meeting was held at the Franciscan International Fraternity of “Father Gabriele M. Allegra, OFM ” in Rome, on “Forming for the Mission”, by Br. Massimo Tedoldi, OFM, Secretary General for Mission and Evangelism, and Br. Vidal Rodriguez Lopez, OFM, Secretary General for Formation and Studies . (more…)
Seminar on New Forms of evangelization in Europe
On Monday, March 4, 2013, the IV Seminar for new forms of evangelization in Europe began in Greccio (RI). The Seminar is sponsored by the Order through the General Secretariat for the Missions and Evangelization of Rome (SGME). The total number of participants are approximately about 40, coming from different countries (Poland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina . (more…)
Message of the brothers meeting in Nairobi
In alignment with the Year of Faith proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI and in response to the General Chapter of 2009, the Commission for Dialogue in the Order invited the Secretaries for the Missions and Evangelization of the African Conference for a meeting from February 18-21, 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya, to reflect on the theme of dialogue with Islam, a religion that shares our belief in the one God. (more…)
Congress on dialogue with Islam
Organized by the OFM Service for Dialogue, the “Congress on Dialogue with Islam in Africa” is currently taking place from February 18-22, 2013, in Nairobi (Kenya). Together with the members of the Service for Dialogue are also the Secretaries of Mission of the OFM African Conference. Two speeches have been heard at the Congress: The first one by Fr. Joseph Stamer, of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers), and the second by Br. Gwènolè Jeusset, OFM, of the Fraternity of Istanbul. (more…)
Interdisciplinary Study of the OFM
On Friday, February 1, 2013, at the headquarters of the Pontifical Antonianum University in Rome, the International Commission for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Franciscan Order met in order to suggest strategies for evangelization (Mandate 14 of the Document of the OFM General Chapter of Assisi in 2009). (more…)
Seminar on Current Culture and Evangelization
The II Seminar on “Dialogue with the Current Culture and Evangelization” began on January 29. The Minister General and his entire Definitory are participating in it. The aim of this Seminar II is to make concrete proposals for evangelization, bearing in mind the challenges that come from today’s culture – as mandated 14 asked of the last General Chapter. (more…)
Formation & Missions
