SMA News
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The Chasm Between FOMO and JOMO: An Awareness of a Lack
We live in a time of endless possibilities. The Internet constantly lodas them on us, especially on social media, but also every time we click on news portals, watch YouTube videos and listen to podcasts. And we find ourselves thus glued to our smartphones. This creates new dependencies. To qualify those dependencies 2.0. new…

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Brief History of SMA in South Africa
In 1873 August, the first missionaries Fr Gaudel SMA and Fr Pasquereau arrived at Port Nolloth, Cape Town, South Africa. They served few Catholics and others who were working the mines of O’Kiep, Springbok. After the couple of years, they moved to the place called Pella which was a fair prospect for a mission; they…

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SMA Silang-Community extends help to Typhoon Odette’s victims
The Society of African Missions (SMA) Silang community extended help to victims of Typhoon Odette, internationally known as Typhoon Rai, which wreaked havoc in six Philippine regions in December 2021. Typhoon Rai, locally known as Typhoon Odette in the Philippines entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility on 14 December 2021 with peak winds up to…

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SMA International News of January
Title of this edition: 1- Nigeria: return of the SMA to the diocese of Bauchi; 2- Sierra Leone: presentation of Newton’s mission school; 3- Collaborative work between the SMA and the OLA in Strasbourg.

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Message of the Superior General on the occasion of the 165th Anniversary of the SMA
Dear brothers, Tomorrow, we will gather to celebrate the 165th anniversary of the foundation of the Society of African Missions. I am sure that on this day that falls on the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, all of us will do our best to meet and spend it together – in our parishes, our communities,…

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SMA International News of December
Ireland: Look back of Fr. Alphonse SEKONGO on his 6 years of mission in the province; Strasbourg: Concert of Charity for the missionary works in Liberia; Rome: Meeting of the SMA-NDA commission for the common spiritual heritage.






