350 years of priests, culture clashes, and holy audacity in the East.
Since the 18th century, the Paris Foreign Missions Society (MEP) has been sending priests to Asia in the name of the Gospel. The MEP missionaries have contributed to an extraordinary human, cultural, and religious adventure that gave birth to the Churches of Asia. The MEP priests continue the work begun 350 years ago by the first missionaries: bearers of good news, pioneers, spiritual mentors, and social activists, they are writing the history of the universal Church in Asia.
Direction
Charier and François-Sappey balance reverence with necessary critical distance.
Production
Archival footage spanning three centuries of rarely seen missionary records.
Director
Josselin Charier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The MEP's archives in Paris hold the largest collection of documents on Asian Christianity in existence—much of it untranslated and politically sensitive.
The title 'Ad Vitam' references the society's motto and the lifelong commitment missionaries made—no retirement, no return home guaranteed. Many were effectively disappeared by history.
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