1.  First of all, the project to be supported should be a pastoral one.

Reasons:

• The responsible persons who are spreading the Gospel in the mission countries shall be supported.
• Each department of the Diocese has its specific emphasis, the same is true for the Office for Mission and Development.

2.  A relationship must be given or aimed at between the Archdiocese of Vienna and the project partners.

Reasons:

•  The support should be an expression of the communion of the local church of Vienna with the mission church at the place
• Support shall not only be given once a time, but over a longer period
• A longer lasting cooperation in partnership (by giving and receiving) can cause a lasting development promotion.

3. Persons who are engaged in missionary service - in religious congregations or as catechists - are to be supported.

Reasons:

•  The first mission of the Church is to bring the Gospel to all people.
• Auxiliary Bishop Florian Kuntner who founded the Office for Mission & Development in the Archdiocese of Vienna, expressed through the criteria which he laid down, that the construction of the Church shall especially be promoted by supporting missionary congregations and catechists.
• Both target groups contribute much to the construction of the young Churches and often get little support.

4.  The Churches in the 10 poorest countries in the world shall be particularly supported. These are the following countries, according to SWI (Austrian Foundation for World Population and International Cooperation): Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Malawi, Dem. Rep. of Congo, Congo, Burundi, Jemen (Western Asia), Sambia, Mali and Nigeria.

Reasons:

•  Justice is a substantial demand of the Holy Bible and is already continually demanded by the prophets (tithe for the poor).
• All people shall make the experience that God is a God of Life.
• The Church is called to world-wide solidarity (option for the poor).

5. The projects are to be examined by and carried out with qualified institutions:

• Each project has to carry a positive approval by the local Bishop.
•  The support of vehicles for missionaries shall only be carried out by "MIVA"
• Transfers shall only be effected in cooperation with reliable partner organisations (missio, DKA, MIVA...), which dispose of an appropriate infrastructure.

Criteria issued by:

Office of the Archdiocese of Vienna for Mission & Development
Wollzeile 2, 3^rd floor, door 305, 1010 Vienna
Phone: 01/515 52-3355, Fax: 01/513 77 38
E-Mail: mission@edw.or.at   Homepage: www.mission.at

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