In 1983 Saint Pope John Paul II spoke to the Catholic Bishops of Latin-America in Haiti and called for a New Evangelisation: one that would be ‘new in its ardour, methods and expression’. More recently, in 2010, Pope Benedict established a Pontifical Council for promoting the New Evangelisation, to help the Church share ‘the inestimable gift’ that God has given us, the gift of being ‘sharers in his own life’. And when Pope Francis stepped onto the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica for the first time on the day of his election it was significant that he spoke about his hopes for ‘the evangelisation of this beautiful city’ – a city that many assumed had already been evangelised.

Primary evangelisation is understood to be the task of reaching out to those people and cultures that have never known Christ and his Gospel. It is ‘missionary work’ in its traditional sense, sometimes called the mission ad gentes, meaning ‘to the (non-Christian) nations’. This is the first and in some senses the most important kind of evangelisation.

The New Evangelisation, according to St. John Paul II, concerns another situation. It involves the mission of the Church ‘particularly in countries with ancient Christian roots, and occasionally in the younger Churches as well, where entire groups of the baptized have lost a living sense of the faith, or even no longer consider themselves members of the Church, and live a life far removed from Christ and his Gospel’ ( Redemptoris Missio, Para 33). The New Evangelisation, on this first definition, involves the re-evangelisation of former Christian cultures and of Christians who have become disconnected from their faith. Pope Benedict  explains very simply that it is the need for a renewed missionary impulse in territories that have traditionally been Christian.

It is evident that evangelisation is not something new. Christians have been sharing their faith for two thousand years: giving witness to the love of God in Jesus Christ, and inviting others to share in that redeeming love through faith and the sacramental life of the Church.

Since one of our primary mottos is to evangelize in the core areas of Christian faith across the globe, we have been giving much significance for dialogue to be undertaken with various denominations. Accordingly, we had initiated dialogue with many non-Catholic groups.

Today, our journey has led to the formation of a purposeful learning community that has blessed  thousands of hopefuls, making a positive differences in their families and friends due to our strenuous hard work and efforts.

Below are a few photographs where our Chairman Dr. Thomas George is addressing the honorable bishops to introduce a few non-Christian and non-Catholic groups to Catholic Church.