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Paraguay
Population: 5.1 million Life expectancy males/females: 66/71 years Infant mortality rate: 43‰ Illiteracy: approx. 40%	Religions: Catholic 85%. Independence: 14 May 1811 (from Spain) GDP per capita: US $1,640

The Paraguay group, has already completed thirty years of life. It is a relatively small and international group (9 confreres, 6 nationalities). It has however a presence of quality in the country, due to the engagements undertaken in the local Church and fidelity to the missionary charism of the Congregation. The experience of internationality has sometimes been difficult, but always enriching, which leads the group to remain open to receiving reinforcement from other circumscriptions.

The mission of the group happens in two sectoral communities one in the countryside and the other in Assuncion.

The country community devotes itself to parish work which is based mainly in the assistance and development of base communities. The city community is involved with aspirants, a heavily populated peripheral quarter, and Laval house, the centre of the life of the group. Besides these works, the Spiritans are involved in mission animation and indigenous pastoral work.

The group of Paraguay, a country situated at the heart of Latin America, tries to nourish itself with the spirit of Vatican II, Medellin, Puebla and Santo Domingo. It was the Paraguay group which gave the impulse for the creation of the novitiate in Puerto Rico and continues very united to the Spiritan circumscriptions of Brazil.

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