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We Are Mission
In this podcast from Missio Scotland, Fr Anthony Chantry, the National Director of Missio England and Wales, speaks to us about becoming a Catholic, discerning his vocation, joining the Mill Hill Missionaries and his time spent on mission in Kenya where he worked extensively with young people and South Africa where the poverty in the townships was stark.
A Saint for our times
On Sunday 22 May, one of Missio’s founders, Blessed Pauline-Marie Jaricot, was beatified in Lyon. Fr Anthony Chantry, Missio’s National Director in England and Wales, explores the life of Blessed Pauline – very much a Saint for our times.
World Mission Sunday – Wisdom from encounter
Fr Anthony, our National Director, spoke to the Catholic Bishops Conference in England and Wales ahead of World Mission Sunday 2023. He shares how Sister Mary’s whole philosophy, her whole spirituality, is to accompany people, to be with them, to share in their suffering as far as they can, and to listen.Â
Pope Francis speaks on climate change
Ahead of COP26, the crucial climate conference taking place in Glasgow in November 2021, the Holy Father gave a Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4. Listen to Pope Francis thoughts.Â
World Mission Sunday
Ahead of this year’s World Mission Sunday (24 October), we hear from Fr Gary Brassington, Diocesan Director for Missio in the Clifton Diocese, and Dave Wheat, Regional Community Fundraiser for Missio in the South.
Catholic Church ‘happily’ caught in the middle of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon
Our National Director, Father Anthony Chantry, talked to the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of England and Wales about the crisis in Cameroon – particularly the Catholic Church’s role in working for justice and peace.
Faith gives hope to Cameroon’s suffering people
Father Richard Njoroge is a Mill Hill Missionary based in anglophone Cameroon.
He serves the innocents stuck in the middle of this conflict – the women, men and children literally caught in the crossfire.
Anglophone Crisis: We won’t give up on the suffering of Cameroon, says Bishop
Bishop Paul Swarbrick is Bishop of the Diocese of Lancaster and serves as Chair of Trustees for Missio England and Wales. He is also the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales Lead Bishop for Africa.Â