Below are some of the projects supported by Missio around the world

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Missio brings the love and compassion of Jesus to the world through the APF, the SPA and Mission Together.

The tourists drive through my diocese and don’t see it. They visit the Game Park at Hwange and call into the town for a cold drink or to see the site of the 1972 Wankie Colliery Disaster in which 430 miners lost their lives in an underground explosion. It is still the world’s 6th largest mining disaster. They visitors drive past the colliery, blind to the appalling poverty of the miners.’

The diocese of Masvingo in Zimbabwe is famous for its magnificent Game Park, its colliery and Great Zimbabwe. Yet most of the diocese is virgin territory, broken only by the A3 road from Victoria Falls to Bulawayo and by seasonal rivers. There are more than 5,000 people per priest, scattered at distances so great that many are able to attend Mass a couple of times in the course of a year.

Through the APF, the Catholics of England and Wales pay for the catechists’ work in this newly-formed diocese, ensuring that even in the most remote villages, there is someone able to lead them in prayer, helping them to grow in faith and hope even in the difficult times that Zimbabwe is experiencing.

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Many indigenous languages are only written down as the result of years of painstaking work by missionaries who had themselves to first learn the language, transcribing unfamiliar sounds into something that could be read before they could compile a grammar and dictionary for use by others.

As literacy increases across the world, so does the need for the Bible, translated into the language of the local people. They want, and they need, to hear God speak to them in words that they can understand with their hearts as well as with their minds. South Africa has 11 official languages and scores other indigenous tongues.

Through the APF, the Catholics of England and Wales have paid for the Bible to be translated into Zulu.

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St John Vianney, Major Seminary in Cambodia has only five students for the priesthood, but this is the greatest number in the 450 years that have passed since Christianity first came to the country.

During the Pol Pot regime, the Khmer Rouge expelled every foreign priest and Religious. Except for a few Sisters who were studying outside the country, every Cambodian bishop, priest and Sister was either killed or else died of the starvation and brutality meted out to an enslaved workforce. An estimated 2 million people died between 1975 and 1980. Yet, when the regime was overthrown and the Cambodian people began to regain their liberty, a few Catholics returned from the refugee camps along the Thai border.
Through the SPA, the Catholics of England and Wales are supporting the five seminarians on their journey to the priesthood and helping to rebuild their seminary on the edge of the Killing Fields.

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Fr Jayaraju, the Rector of St John's Regional Major Seminary in Hyderabad, described his students:
‘Many of our seminarians come from very poor backgrounds. When they go home, there is sometimes barely enough for them to eat; their parents find it difficult to maintain them. Were it not for the generosity of the Catholics of England and Wales, to whom I am very grateful, these young men would be unable to study for the priesthood.’

The students at St John’s come from all 12 dioceses of Andhra Pradesh, India’s fourth largest State, with a population of more than 78 million people, of whom only 2% are Christians and less than 1% are Catholic.

Through the SPA, the Catholics of England and Wales are supporting 123 seminarians on their journey to the priesthood.

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The headmistress, Mrs Nyathi, wrote, ‘Pupils were starving. There was poor concentration in lessons due to hunger. Pupils were dropping out of school. Pupils’ very basic needs were not being met - at home or at school. Our Archbishop has always insisted that our school must have an option for the poor.

We cannot exclude any child from school for non-payment of school fees. The situation is desperate!’

St Bernard’s Primary School, Bulawayo, has 300 orphans amongst its 974 pupils. Through Mission Together, the Catholic children of England and Wales paid the school fees for 100 of those orphans and ensured that each of the 974 children had at least one daily meal for a full year.

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