"Mission remains urgent": the Colombian Church renews its missionary commitment on the centenary of DOMUND

The Diocese of Sonsón-Rionegro hosted a three-day missionary congress from October 16 to 18 to mark the centenary of World Mission Sunday (DOMUND). The gathering, held at the Citadel of Jesus in La Ceja, brought together approximately 500 participants, including priests, seminarians, consecrated men and women, families, and laypeople.

The congress followed the theme "One in Christ, United in Mission" and included a regional meeting for Missionary Childhood and Adolescence. Father Renzo Baltazar Martínez Ramírez, the diocesan director of the Pontifical Mission Societies and missionary pastoral ministry for Sonsón-Rionegro, said the event provided a time for prayer, formation, and missionary fraternity.

The program organized its three days around the concepts of calling, forming, and sending. According to Father Martínez Ramírez, the first day focused on listening to the Lord, the second on formation, and the final day on being sent forth. At the conclusion of the event, Bishop Fidel León Cadavid Marín of Sonsón-Rionegro stated that mission is an urgent task for the entire Church.