“John Paul II, missionary” - a book by PIME missionary priest

(Aug.10, 2011) "With Mary on the roads of the world" is the title of the work by PIME missionary priest - Fr. Giuseppe Buono, of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions. The book focussing on missionary and Marian teaching of John Paul II was published on the occasion of the beatification of the Polish pontiff. Fr.Buono will be in Indonesia from August 10- 13 on a tour which will include the capital, Jakarta, and then Java and Bali. An Indonesian-language translation of the work was done by Yohana Halimah, a graduate in missiology of Rome’s Urbaniana University, a member of the national leadership of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Indonesia. Fr. Giuseppe Buono was invited to go to Indonesia by the National Director of Pontifical Mission Societies in Indonesia, the archbishop of Jakarta and the John Paul II Missionary Community.
The first presentation of the book will take place at the headquarters of the Indonesian Bishops' Conference in Jakarta on Saturday. On Sunday August 14 there will be a presentation for the Catholic community. It will take place in the Community of the Xaverian Missionaries in Jakarta. The book offers a preface by Msgr. Juan-Esquerda Bifet and the testimonies of three cardinals who were very close to Pope John Paul II: Jozef Tomko, former Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Stanislaw Dziwisz, the pope's private secretary and Robert Sarah, president of "Cor Unum ".