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Why celebrate World Mission Sunday?
Mission Sunday unites Catholics all over the world in prayer, mutual friendship and support, both spiritual and material. On World Mission Sunday we explicitly celebrate and share Jesus’ mission locally and globally. It is celebrated in every parish in the world!Every parish and every diocese in the world contributes towards the fund of Universal Solidarity which is then shared out ‘from each according to their resources, to each according to their need’. The monies from England and Wales go directly to the Bishops in the mission territories – local church directly helping local church!
Mission Focus
World Mission Sunday encourages prayer and financial support for the missionary work of the Catholic Church in a world where millions have yet to hear the Gospel, and where the Church often faces serious threats from materialism, other religious groups and hostile regimes.There are 1,114,966,000 Catholics who form 17% of the world’s population. In Africa they represent 17% of the population; In America 63%; In Asia 3%; In Europe 40% and in Oceania 26%.
Money collected on World Mission Sunday goes towards helping 83,000 priests, 455,000 religious and 1,700,000 catechists. Through them APF supports 194,855 schools, 5,246 hospitals, 17,530 dispensaries, 577 leprosy centres, and 80,560 social and charitable institutions.