SMA News

  • SMA animation Centre in construction

    We are pleased to announce to you the construction of a Missionary Animation Center, within which a Thanksgiving-Memorial Chapel in honnor of all missionary who worked Côte d’Ivoire will be errected. This will equally be a place where all the abandoned, the less fortunates, the wounded of life and the marginalized would be welcomed. A center of…

    SMA Media avatar
  • SMA ordination in India

    SMA ordination in India

    Rev. Fr. Pradeep MATHE, an Indian SMA, was ordained a priest on Sunday, January 19, 2017, along with four other diocesan priests at Gunadala Matha Shrine, Vijayawada. He is the second of the twenty or so new SMA priests going to be ordained this year in different countries.

    SMA Media avatar
  • The Missionary Sisters Our Lady of the Apostles (OLA) in Chad and collaboration with the Society of African Missions (SMA)

    The Missionary Sisters Our Lady of the Apostles (OLA) in Chad and collaboration with the Society of African Missions (SMA)

    Chad is a secular state. However, religion has an important place in the country either at the individual or at collective level. Traditional religions (about 10% of the population) is in the central and southern parts of the country, particularly in the Mayo-Kebbi East regions and Mayo-Kebbi West.

    SMA Media avatar
  • Superior General’s visit to Lyons Province

    Superior General’s visit to Lyons Province

    From sixth to tenth march, we had the joy of welcoming, Fr. Fachtna O’Drisscoll, superior general of the Society of African Missions together with his vicar general Fr. Antony Porcellato who came for a canonical visit.

    SMA Media avatar
  • This disease is worse than leprosy

    This disease is worse than leprosy

    Considered third mycobacterial disease affecting human behind leprosy and tuberculosis, which it exceeds even in terms of prevalence in certain regions of Benin, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, WHO classifies burili ulcer as

    SMA Media avatar
  • COMMUNITY, LOVE, AND MISSION

    COMMUNITY, LOVE, AND MISSION

    PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON THE SMA INTERNATIONAL LAY CONVENTION Last December 28, 2016 to January 1, 2017, I was blessed to be sent to Feriole, Italy to be one of the participants of the SMA International Lay Convention. As a new member of the SMA Family Crusades for Vocation Promotions,the theme of the convention was especially…

    SMA Media avatar