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Jean-Marie Vasseur, R.I.P.

Society of the Missionaries of Africa

Father Emmanuel Lengaigne, Provincial Delegate of the sector of France,
informs you of the return to the Lord of Father

Jean-Marie Vasseur

on Thursday 25th March 2021 at Pau-Billere (France)
at the age of 93 years, of which 68 years of missionary life
in Burkina Faso, Italy and France.

Let us pray for him and for his loved ones.

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Lenten meditation from NAD nr 4

Pro Minoribus

Pro Minoribus

The coordinator for Integrity of the Ministry has started a new publication for all the confreres to keep them up to date concerning integrity in their ministry, especially in safegarding the young and the vulnerable. This bimonthly publication is reserved to the Missionaries of Africa. Refrain from propagating it outside the Society. Here is the first issue.

Friedrich Stenger, R.I.P

Society of the Missionaries of Africa

Father Rudi Pint, Provincial Delegate of the sector of Germany,
informs you of the return to the Lord of Father

Friedrich (Fritz) Stenger

on Wednesday 17th March 2021 at Munich (Germany)
at the age of 78 years, of which 50 years of missionary life
in Ethiopia, Kenya, Zambia, Ghana, Italy and Germany.

Let us pray for him and for his loved ones.

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Lenten meditation from NAD nr 3

Hans Schmidt, R.I.P.

Society of the Missionaries of Africa

Father Rudi Pint, Provincial Delegate of the sector of Germany,
informs you of the return to the Lord of Father

Hans Schmidt

on Monday 8th March 2021 in Soest (Germany)
at the age of 80 years, of which 52 years of missionary life
in DR Congo and in Germany.

Let us pray for him and for his loved ones.

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Marcel Mangnus, R.I.P.

Society of the Missionaries of Africa

Father Aloysius Ssekamatte, Provincial of East Africa,
informs you of the return to the Lord of Father

Marcel Mangnus

on Sunday 7th March 2021 in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
at the age of 82 years, of which 58 years of missionary life
in Tanzania and the Netherlands.

Let us pray for him and for his loved ones.

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Lenten meditations from NAD

As every year, NAD (AEFJN Germany) is offering us a meditation for each week of the Lenten Season. As I was in hospital until today, here come the two first meditations. 

Lenten Meditation 1

Lenten Meditation 2

Georg Luckner, R.I.P.

Society of the Missionaries of Africa

Father Rudi Pint, Provincial Delegate of the sector of Germany,
informs you of the return to the Lord of Father

Georg Luckner

on Monday 1st March 2021 at Hechingen (Germany)
at the age of 86 years, of which 60 years of missionary life
in Burundi, Canada and Germany.

Let us pray for him and for his loved ones.

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Fernand Lambert, R.I.P.

Society of the Missionaries of Africa

Father Yvo Wellens, Provincial Delegate of the sector of Belgium,
informs you of the return to the Lord of Father

Fernand Lambert

on Thursday 25th February 2021 at St Michael’s Clinic (Brussels)
at the age of 91 years, of which 66 years of missionary life
in Congo, Rwanda and Belgium.

Let us pray for him and for his loved ones.

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