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SMA Farm Projects

SMA Farm Projects

The Province farm projects has farms in Ayetumara, Ibadan-Lagos Express and in Ibadan-Ife Express. Support and donations can be sent to the following account: Society of African Missions (Farm Invest) 3880086925 Ecobank
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SMA School Projects

SMA School Projects

The following projects are established and managed by Province: De Marion (SMA) School, Kaduna. Prendre le text de Marion School Project (news 11). The contact person person is Fr. SS Joachim and Anne Schools 412 Road, Gowon Estate, Ipaja Road, Egbeda, Lagos, Nigeria. Phone Number: +234 805 476 9226. Support and donations can be sent to the following account: SS Joachim and Anne schools welfare 4110123746 Fidelity Bank. St. Joseph Medical Centre 411 Ipaja Lagos Support and donations can be sent to the following account: 1771653575, St Joseph Medical Center, Polaris Bank.
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Promotion of SMA-OLA Calendar

Promotion of SMA-OLA Calendar

Last Sunday 24th November 2024, Feast of Christ the King, Rev. Fr. Shola Atolagbe, Director of SMA Promotion Office and her assistant, Ms Maggie Ibru (SMA Lay Associate) were at Saint Denis Catholic Church, Barriga in Lagos to promote the 2025 SMA-OLA Calendar. Both zealous mission promoters were accompanied by SMA Seminarians from the Formation House in Bodija Ibadan. Before Saint Denis Catholic Church, Fr. Shola and the seminarians had also visited the Church of Assumption Catholic Church, Falomo, Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Apapa, Saint Matthew Catholic Church Amukoko, Saint Joseph Catholic Church, Gowon Estate all in Lagos. It must…
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Rev. Fr. Delkes Moses Manafen, SMA on skill reinforcement training on farming

Rev. Fr. Delkes Moses Manafen, SMA on skill reinforcement training on farming

Early November this year, Rev. Fr. Delkes Moses Manafen, SMA began an intensive training program in the area of farming at the Centre Songhaï in Porto-Novo, Republic of Bénin. The formation will better equipe Fr. Manafen to be more effective in his area of farm management in the Project Office of the Province. We congratulate Fr. Manafen for his training and wish him well in his apostolate… , Rev. Fr. Delkes Moses Manafen, SMA tilling the ground at Songhaï Center Porto-Novo, Bénin Rev. Fr. Delkes Moses Manafen, SMA in action in Songhaï, Porto-Novo. Bénin
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Rev. Fr. Kishak Gonap at a seminar on Christian – Muslim Dialogue in Senegal

Rev. Fr. Kishak Gonap at a seminar on Christian – Muslim Dialogue in Senegal

On Sunday 10th November 2024, Rev. Fr. Kishak Gonap, SMA arrived at Mont Thabor, Senegal to attend an international conference on interreligious dialogue organized by the Diocese of Thiès in collaboration with the Institut Des Etudes Orietales (IDEO) in Cairo. The theme of the three days conference (11th -13th November 2024) was “Le Dialogue Islamo-Chrétien, une chance pour l’Afrique” (Christian Muslim Dialogue, a chance for Africa) was attended by 40 participants experts in Islamology from 15 nationalities. Also present at the conference were the President of the National Association of Imams and Ulemas of Senegal, Imam El Hadji Omar Diene…
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Very Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Zinsu, SMA visits the Apostolic Nuncio

Very Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Zinsu, SMA visits the Apostolic Nuncio

On the 15th of November 2024, the Provincial Superior visited the Apostolic Nuncio, Most Rev. Michael Francis Crotty, to sign a convention for one year for the service of Very. Rev. Fr. Claude Nikpi SMA. Archbishop Crotty is priest of the Diocese of Cloyne in Ireland. In an interview granted to the Vatican News in August 2024, Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) expressed optimism about the new appointment. Reflecting on the appointment of the new Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Ugorji is quoted as saying: “We also celebrate the historic connection between our nations,…
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Saint Charles Catholic Church, Kano organized seminar on Healing the Family Tree

Saint Charles Catholic Church, Kano organized seminar on Healing the Family Tree

Thousands of participants from parishes in Kano trooped to Saint Charles’ SMA Catholic Church, Nomansland Kano, in the evenings of Monday 28th October to Friday 1st December 2024 and also Saturday 2nd December morning (for youths) and evening for a Dinner Party to attend the seminar organized by Rev. Fr. Anthony Agbovi SMA with the cooperation of his Associate Priest, Fr. George Susaimanickam William and a team of selected parishioners. The dynamic seminar on healthy Family Life, with particular attention to parenting and growing up as a young person in the 21st Century family environment discussed topics such as sexual…
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Fr Michael Waters SMA [RIP]

Fr Michael Waters SMA [RIP]

(Culled from SMA Ireland website) The death has taken place of Fr Michael Waters, SMA. Fr Michael died peacefully with his family around him at the SMA House, African Missions, Blackrock Road on Tuesday, 5 November 2024. Brief biography After completing his secondary education in Cork. It was no great surprise when Michael decided to join the African Missions following in the steps of his uncle, Fr Con O’Driscoll, SMA, who was a missionary in the Midwest of Nigeria. In September 1966, the seminarian Michael was ordained a priest in Newry Cathedral. After his Ordination, Fr Michael returned to Cork…
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Rev. Fr. Parfait Gbolohoe, SMA arrival as Parish Priest Saint Peter Catholic Church, Agbowa

Rev. Fr. Parfait Gbolohoe, SMA arrival as Parish Priest Saint Peter Catholic Church, Agbowa

In October 2024, Rev. Fr. Parfait Gbolohoe, SMA resumed his post as Parish Priest of St. Peter Catholic Church, Agbowa in the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos. Located in a town 35 kilometer north of Epe Division and founded in 1944 (that is 80 years ago), Saint Peter’s Catholic Church Agbowa-Ikosi, can still be considered a Primary Evangelization Mission. In 2016 the mission was elevated to the state of a Quasi Parish and Fr. Augustine Onwuzurike SMA was the first SMA to be Parish Priest of the Parish. The status of a parish was acquired in 2020. Fr. Onwuzu rike was…
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