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"A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE MISSION IN THE 'NEW' WORLD"
By Esneyder Zamora
What is new in our world that we must look for a new mission? How is the world different today compared to the world before to which generations of missionaries were sent? According to Timothy Radcliffe (a Dominican priest), what is new is Globalization. E-mails stream into our offices from all over the world, and trillions of dollars circulate around the markets of the world every day.
We live in a global village. Today missionaries are no longer dispatched on ships to unknown countries. Today almost everywhere is no more than a day's journey away. But I ask myself, does "globalization" really identify the new context for the mission? The global village is the fruit of a historical evolution that has been taking place for at least five hundred - if not, five- thousand years. Some experts argue that in many ways the world a hundred years ago was just as globalized as today. Perhaps the world is not so very different today from the world of the past.
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