{"id":719,"date":"2018-03-04T21:22:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T21:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.karongadiocese.org\/?p=719"},"modified":"2018-03-04T21:22:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T21:22:40","slug":"missionaries-st-francis-de-sales-india-visit-karonga-diocese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/missionaries-st-francis-de-sales-india-visit-karonga-diocese\/","title":{"rendered":"Missionaries of St. Francis De Sales from India Visit Karonga Diocese"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Pastoral Secretariat<\/h4>\n<p>A team of Missionaries of St. Francis De Sales (MSFS) from India led by the Provincial Superior of South East India Province, Father Ignaci Muthu are visiting Karonga Diocese to assess the prospects of opening a mission in the Diocese.<\/p>\n<p>The Diocese of Karonga will take them to different parts of the Diocese so that they can appreciate the pastoral situation. The team made a courtesy call to the Bishop of Karonga Diocese, His Lordship Martin Anwel Mtumbuka. Also in attendance were the Vicar General of the Diocese of Karonga, Monsignor Denis Chitete and the Pastoral Secretary, Father Joseph Sikwese.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_720\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-720\" style=\"width: 758px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-720 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/delegation-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"758\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/delegation-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/delegation-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/delegation-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/delegation-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/delegation.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bishop Martin Mtumbuka (third from right) and the Monsignor Chitete (first from left) with the Missionaries of St Francis De Sales<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The visiting team is comprised of the following: Father Ignaci Muthu MSFS \u2013 Provincial Superior South East India; Father Kanickai Daniel MSFS \u2013 Provincial Counsellor in charge of missions; Father Susairaj Sebastian MSFS \u2013 The confrere who is designated to work in Malawi Mission; Father Johnson Kallidukil MSFS (former Provincial of East African Province who initiated contact with Karonga Diocese in 2012).<\/p>\n<p>The Diocese of Karonga has 13 priests who are currently working in the Diocese, three priests are abroad for further studies. The Diocese has 9 parishes serving 67000 Catholic Christians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastoral Secretariat A team of Missionaries of St. Francis De Sales (MSFS) from India led by the Provincial Superior of South East India Province, Father Ignaci Muthu are visiting Karonga Diocese to assess the prospects of opening a mission in the Diocese. The Diocese of Karonga will take them to different parts of the Diocese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":16,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-karonga-diocese","category-pastoral-commission"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}