Vatican City, May 7, 2007 / 10:02 am
On Saturday morning, Pope Benedict XVI met with participants of the meeting of the senior council of the Pontifical Missionary Works and the World Congress of Missionaries, Fidei Donum, and he recalled the importance of cooperation between “the 'ancient' Christian communities and those just born or taking their first steps.”
The Pope recalled that the aim of Pius XII in writing the Encyclical Fidei Donum, , “He wanted to encourage, alongside traditional forms, another kind of missionary cooperation between so-called 'ancient' Christian communities and those just born or taking their first steps in recently evangelized territories."