SMA News
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Seminar “In the footsteps of Brésillac and Planque”
There will be 36 participants in the Seminar “In the footsteps of Brésillac and Planque”. Members either of the Society of African Missions or of the Missionary Sisters Our Lady of the Apostles, they will work together for three days on their “common spiritual heritage”. The SMA Generalate of Rome provides the framework for the…

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Canonical visit to Poland
The Superior General with one of the councilors makes an official visit (Canonical visit) to every Unit once in the mandate. Fr. Fachtna O’Driscoll, the Superior General and Fr. Francis Rozario, a General Councillor visited Polish District in Formation for ten days from November 4 to 13, 2016.

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Renewal of Commitment
Yesterday, Thursday, during the evening mass in the chapel at the Generalate, our brother Steven Phillips renewed his commitment to SMA. Steven is a lay missionary from the US Province and is currently the English Secretary at the Generalate, a role he has had for the past 3 years.

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War on modern day slavery
The Society of African Missions (SMA) and the Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles (OLA) have been working together on our response to the challenges coming from the recent migration of people to the West. As people run either away from wars and misery or towards greener pastures, many of them fall into different forms…

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Angola a promising land
Angola is one of least known countries in the SMA world. I visited our missions in the country from the 10th to 20th of October 2016. I would share briefly with everybody here the whole project of Angola.

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A new cardinal for Centrafrique
Pope Francis appointed on October 9, the Archbishop of Bangui in Central African Republic as the new cardinal of that country. The Central African Republic has experienced serious clashes between two rival groups that killed thousands. Msgr Dieudonné Nzapalainga, 49, will be the youngest African cardinal during his inauguration in November in Rome. SMA is…






