Pope Francis appointed the African nun Inés Paulo Albino, ASC, Councilor of the Institute of the Sisters Adorers of the Blood of Christ, as the new general secretary of the Pontifical Society of Missionary Childhood.
According to the Vatican Press OfficeSister Agnes Paul Albino was born on April 25, 1969 in Bula (Guinea-Bissau). She is 55 years old.
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She made her perpetual profession at the Institute of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ on September 14, 1997.
He obtained a degree in Biblical Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. She has been pastoral responsible for the Santa Maria de Mattias parish in Ingoré and national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Guinea-Bissau.
He has worked in the field of evangelization, catechesis, teaching and youth apostolate.
Since 2022 she was Counselor and Bursar of the Italian region of her religious institute.
What is Missionary Childhood?
He website of Missionary Childhood in Spain explains that “Missionary Childhood is a Work of the Pope that promotes reciprocal help among the children of the world” with “missionary activities in schools and catechesis with which to educate children in faith and solidarity with the mission.”
“It also invites children to personally contribute their savings to the children of the missions. “Children help children,” she adds.
It was the French bishop Carlos-Augusto Forbin-Janson who, in 1843, “felt moved to found the Missionary Childhood Work, given the shocking news that the missionaries were sending about the dramatic situation of children—and especially, of girls—in China.”
In that sense, the website continues, “Missionary Childhood has the honor of being the first global initiative to care for children.”
Walter Sanchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.