On Tuesday 1 October 2019, at 11.30, in the Holy See Press Office, Via della Conciliazione 54, there will be a “meeting point” with journalists for the presentation of the Extraordinary Missionary Month October 2019, on the theme “Baptized and sent: Christ’s Church on mission in the world”:

The following will be present and available to the press:

- His Eminence Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (in Italian);

- Archbishop Pietro Giovanni Dal Toso, adjunct secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples; president of the Pontifical Mission Societies (in Italian, Spanish and English);

- Fr. Fabrizio Meroni, of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), general secretary of the Pontifical Missionary Union and director of the Agenzia Fides (in Italian and English);

- Fr. Frédéric Fornos, S.J., international director of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (in Spanish and Italian);

- Sr. Simona Brambilla, Consolata Missionary (in Italian and Portuguese);

- Fr. Gabriel Amal Costa, PIME Missionary (in English and French).