From the Book of Numbers.MISSION POSSIBLE. The Vatican reports that 600,000 people are involved in full-time mission work, a number that includes bishops, priests, religious sisters and brothers, seminarians, lay missionaries, and other volunteers. In the past 14 years, the number of mission stations has risen 17 percent, and in the past 25 years, growth in the number of major seminarians--a statistical indicator for missions--has been 400 percent. "Either the church is missionary or it is not the church," Cardinal Jozef Tomko, prefect prefect or praefect (both: prē`fĕkt), in ancient Rome, various military and civil officers. Under the empire some prefects were very important. The Praetorian prefects (first appointed 2 B.C. of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (Congregatio pro Gentium Evangelisatione) is the congregation of the Roman Curia responsible for missionary work and related activities. , told the ZENIT news agency
The congregation recently published a document titled Cooperatio Missionalis ("Missionary Cooperation") that calls on every diocese, parish, and Christian--not just priests and religious who journey to the Third World--to take on the responsibility of evangelization e·van·gel·ize v. e·van·gel·ized, e·van·gel·iz·ing, e·van·gel·iz·es v.tr. 1. To preach the gospel to. 2. To convert to Christianity. v.intr. To preach the gospel. . But missionary work can be a dangerous calling. As reported in Pastoral Music Notebook, 29 Catholic missionaries were killed in the line of duty In the Line of Duty may refer to:
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