On behalf of the Pope, the whole Church prays and gathers worldwide on October 23, 2022.
On World Mission Sunday we celebrate the worldwide communion of churches – the WORLD CHURCH. We join in prayer and solidarity with 1.3 billion Catholics.
World Mission Sunday is the oldest church collection in the world and the largest solidarity campaign on our planet.
The collection on World Mission Sunday enables the young churches to live and grow in the poorest countries of the world.
With your donation on World Mission Sunday, you are once again setting a sign of hope for the poorest of the poor in Africa, Asia.
Since 1922, Missio, with its partners in 150 countries around the world in Africa, Asia and Latin America, has been there for the poorest of the poor, where help is most urgently needed.
A FOCUS COUNTRY EVERY YEAR
In order to get an insight into the world church, we choose a country where we are guests every year for World Mission Sunday.
Priority country 2022: Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Diamonds, gold, coltan, copper – a wealth of raw materials is hidden beneath the earth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nevertheless, the country remains bitterly poor. According to the World Bank, 72 percent of the population survive on less than two euros a day. Almost every second child is considered malnourished.
Thousands of children in the Congo dig for cobalt every day at the risk of their lives. The valuable metal is used for batteries in electric cars, smartphones and laptops. With their small hands they break up the rough rock. The families have no other choice: if they didn't dig, they would have to starve. And so the children are robbed of their future. Because education is out of the question.
In Kolwezi, the Sisters of the Good Shepherd support the oppressed women and men in the illegal cobalt mines.
But there is hope: the Sisters of the Good Shepherd are rescuing children who have had to toil in the mines for years. In the sisters' schools they receive food and a good education. For the first time in their lives, these children get a real chance!
The street children of Lubumbashi. 42% of children are malnourished. Many live on the streets. They organize themselves in gangs, numb their pain with glue and are forced into prostitution.
Salesians are on site, in Bakanja Ville, 80 children receive education and training. Jean-Paul and Grignon found a new home with the Salesians. Jean-Paul wants to be a chef, Grignon dreams of being a bricklayer.
Father Johann Kiesling visits remote villages and administers the sacraments to the people. Has been a missionary in Congo for 40 years. The 88-year-old Salesian is where people need him. He is EMIL Prize winner 2022.
