{"id":250217,"date":"2026-11-13T19:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-returning-to-the-place-where-it-all-began-the-society-of-african-missions-renews-its-missionary-commitment\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T19:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T17:00:05","slug":"sierra-leone-returning-to-the-place-where-it-all-began-the-society-of-african-missions-renews-its-missionary-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-returning-to-the-place-where-it-all-began-the-society-of-african-missions-renews-its-missionary-commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone: Returning to the Place Where It All Began, the Society of African Missions Renews Its Missionary Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"73\">Freetown \u2014 A return to its roots in order to renew its missionary commitment, meet confreres and look to the future together with the local Churches. This is the significance of the visit by Father Fran\u00e7ois du Penhoat, Superior General of the Society of African Missions (SMA), to its Delegation in Sierra Leone, the Institute&#8217;s first mission territory and the place where its founder, French missionary bishop Melchior de Marion Br\u00e9sillac, died and was buried.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">&#8220;It was a great joy and a source of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611130468.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freetown \u2014 A return to its roots in order to renew its missionary commitment, meet confreres and look to the future together with the local Churches. This is the significance of the visit by Father Fran\u00e7ois du Penhoat, Superior General of the Society of African Missions (SMA), to its Delegation in Sierra Leone, the Institute&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":250218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,4380,34735,6307,6572,36919,11493,257,8673,7307,8764,6571,1135,7120,254],"class_list":["post-250217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-began","tag-commitment","tag-leone","tag-missionary","tag-missions","tag-news","tag-place","tag-renews","tag-returning","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-society","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}