{"id":49721,"date":"2025-06-10T15:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/?p=49721"},"modified":"2025-06-10T15:59:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:59:58","slug":"spain-country-with-the-most-missionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/actualidad\/espana-pais-con-mas-misioneros\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain is once again the country that sends out the most missionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/omp.es\/\">Pontifical Mission Societies<\/a> Spain presented on June 10 the <a href=\"https:\/\/omp.es\/noticias\/espana-sigue-siendo-lider-en-numero-de-misioneros-y-segundos-en-colaboracion-economica\/?_gl=1*15zx1q3*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTUxNDM3MTg2Ny4xNzQ5NTU2MjY1*_ga_348NBQ669X*czE3NDk1NTYyNjMkbzEkZzAkdDE3NDk1NTYyNjMkajYwJGwwJGgyMDExOTI5NDUx\">activity report<\/a>. The most remarkable of the data is that Spain is again the country in the world that sends more missionaries, reaching almost 10,000. Of all of them, approximately 5,000 are active, more than half are women and most are in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prayer and financial contribution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to this good news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/focus\/interview-jose-maria-calderon-mission-2022\/\">Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Calder\u00f3n<\/a>The director of the pontifical institution, explained that the funds made available to Rome in 2024 were higher than in 2023. This is due in part to a higher collection, but also to the decrease in management and administration costs. The result has been the delivery of almost 15 million euros, distributed among 1,131 mission territories. This makes Spain the second country that has given the most money to OMP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But as Heliodoro Picazo, a missionary who shared his testimony during the press conference, stressed, money is not the only or the most important part of the contribution to the Pontifical Mission Societies. Prayer is essential to support the thousands of men and women who leave everything and go to evangelize, many of them to remote places where their lives are in danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to the sacrifice of missionaries, one out of every three baptisms in the world takes place in mission territories. Likewise, native vocations are increasing, Catholic schools and medical centers are being opened, and the faith is spreading throughout the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lack of missionary vocations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In spite of the good news, both Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Calder\u00f3n and Heliodoro Picazo have shown their concern for the advanced age of the majority of missionaries. They are getting older, but there are not enough vocations to ensure the continuity of the missions in all the territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this regard, the two speakers emphasized the importance of prayer and of forming young people in the Christian faith, so that those who feel called by God to be missionaries will respond generously to the invitation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obras Misionales Pontificias Espa\u00f1a present\u00f3 el 10 de junio la memoria de actividades. Lo m\u00e1s destacable de los datos es que Espa\u00f1a es otro a\u00f1o m\u00e1s el pa\u00eds del mundo que env\u00eda a m\u00e1s misioneros, llegando casi a los 10.000. De todos ellos, aproximadamente 5000 est\u00e1n en activo, m\u00e1s de la mitad son mujeres y [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2425,"featured_media":49725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,41,46],"tags":[574,35,976],"class_list":["post-49721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-espana","category-mundo","tag-espana","tag-misiones","tag-omp"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Espa\u00f1a vuelve a ser el pa\u00eds que env\u00eda m\u00e1s misioneros<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Otro a\u00f1o m\u00e1s, Espa\u00f1a es el pa\u00eds que env\u00eda a m\u00e1s misioneros a los territorios de misi\u00f3n en todo el mundo, como indica OMP Espa\u00f1a.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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