We develop genuine Catholic communities through inter-religious dialogue and charitable work, all done with a focus on social justice. Above all, we bridge the gap that isolation, both physical and spiritual, can cause. We provide clean water, sustainable food sources, electricity, shelter, warm beds, medication, hospitals, schools, and even new places of worship. To sum it up: we don’t spread the Word of God, we witness it to others.
PIME Missionary Fr. Raul Bonte Có works in the Amazon in Brazil. His parish, Our Lady of Navigators, is located at the mouth of the Amazon river among hundreds of islands. The parish encompasses about 20,000 people in 12...
PIME Missionary Fr. Paolo Ballan works in the Suihari Mission in Dinajpur, Bangladesh, a Christian community in a mainly Muslim area. His rural mission includes 48 villages and has about 4,800 parishioners. Most of the peo...
PIME Missionary Fr. Danilo Fenaroli works in the Far North region of Cameroon in Africa, where water is a scarce and precious resource. In this region, water determines every aspect of life from agricultural production and...
PIME Missionary Fr. Ace Marbella Valdez works in the slums of São Paulo, Brazil, in an area known as “Comunidade Anchieta”. On the southern outskirts of the large city of São Paulo, this slum is made up of 5,000 people liv...
The city of Tozeur, Tunisia is located on the border with the Sahara Desert. Since 1990, it had centered its local economy on tourists flocking to the famous desert. In 2011, this business stream was brought to an abrupt h...
While COVID-19 spread throughout the world in 2020, the people of Myanmar suffered doubly from a civil emergency of the military coup that took place in February of 2021. Within this humanitarian crisis and amid this uns...
Several of the PIME sisters in Cameroon work in Bibemi and Djalingo in the Garoua Diocese. The people of this area do not own any land. Instead they work the land belonging to the large landowners, and when the harvest com...
The Far North region of Cameroon in Africa, as well as parts of neighboring Chad, has some of the harshest and poorest conditions on the continent. In 1997, PIME Missionary Fr. Danilo Fenaroli established the Bethlehem Fou...
Algeria is in Northern Africa and has a population of about 45 million. Islam is the majority and state religion and Christians here are a minority. Of the population, .01-.02% are Catholic with about 60 Catholic priests i...
The Bibemi Medical Dispensary is a health center that distributes medications in rural areas that do not have access to hospitals or other healthcare services. The Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate (PIME Sisters) manage...
After the country’s independence in 1960, the capital of Cameroon, Yaoundé, experienced a huge expansion that included the arrival of people of different ethnicities from all over the country. Today the city of over 4 mill...
Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world with an extremely precarious national healthcare system. Public institutions are becoming more and more private, excluding the weakest segments of the population. The...
Radio Sol Mansi (RSM) is a Catholic radio station in Guinea-Bissau, Africa, founded by PIME Missionary Fr. Davide Sciocco in 2001. What began as a community radio station in Mansoa has grown and is currently heard by many...
PIME has been working in Northeastern Bangladesh in the Diocese of Dinajpur for almost 170 years, and PIME Missionary Fr. Fabrizio Calegari has worked in the country for the past 28. Aside from the duties of his mission, h...
The MDP Medical Fund exclusively supports medical needs in PIME’s missions. These needs vary from assisting those suffering with Hansen’s disease (leprosy), AIDs/HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, malnutrition, to providing hosp...
Sr. Roberta Pignone is a Missionary Sister of the Immaculate (PIME Sister) and a medical doctor. She works amid the poor in the slums of the Diocese of Khulna in Bangladesh treating those who come seeking help, especially ...
After the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, Myanmar experienced a military coup in February of 2021. Both events have brought the country conflict and suffering with economic instability, strikes, civil conflict, and unrest o...
The PIME Mission Development Projects (MDP) General Fund supports mission projects in many of the 19 countries where PIME is present. This fund assists projects with all types of needs – Social Development, Education and T...
PIME Missionary Fr. Mateus Jensen Didonet works in Mumbai, India, in an area next to a garbage dump where the people have settled into makeshift housing without basic services. Many of the people here pick through the gar...
The Dhanjuri Leprosy Control Center needs assistance in the treatment, care and therapy of patients. This Center is a charitable program of the Catholic Church of the Dinajpur Diocese in Bangladesh. It aims for full implem...
The parish of Sao Joaquim do Pacui in Macapá is home to subsistent farmers who earn about R$1300,00 ($350.00) per month. They live off the land and protect the forest from threats posed by agribusiness and lumber companies...
Sr. Roberta Pignone is a Missionary Sister of the Immaculate (PIME Sister) and a medical doctor. She works amid the poor in the slums of the Diocese of Khulna in Bangladesh treating those in need of medical help, especiall...
In 1995, the St. Joseph Center in Phrae, Thailand, was created in collaboration with PIME volunteers and missionaries. The Center works to ensure reception, support, and education for children and young people with disabil...
PIME Missionary Fr. Suresh Kumar Dowluri, or Fr. Bosco as he is known, is the pastor of Our Lady of the Angels Parish in the southern outskirts of São Paulo. The area around Our Lady of the Angels is occupied by ever-grow...
PIME Sister Chiara Colombo works in Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea at a hostel for girls opened there in 2010. The sisters help guide the girls, providing them with formation and support as they attend school away from t...
Sr. Benedetta Nya Moe is one of the Sisters of Charity of the Maria Bambina Congregation in Hsipaw in the Lashio Diocese, Myanmar. The Sisters of Charity here have been serving the education of disadvantaged children in t...