The event was the occasion of the opening of an exhibition of Welsh and Tehuelche photography. “The occupation of the lands of Chubut Province is characterized by this essentially selfish exchange between the Welsh settlers and the Tehuelche people,” added the head of the cultural file, highlighting this coexistence between the two peoples, which could be and which is reflected in the photographic exhibition that opened on Wednesday. Which will continue until the end of April at the Regional Cultural Center, under the title “Wales and Tehuelches, a history of encounter in Patagonia.”
After touring the CPC's photographic gallery, the missionaries visited the Rawson Corporal Letters section in the Plaza de La Madre and visited the Salesian Regional Museum located in the Don Bosco Institute.
During their stay, a cultural, social and spiritual bridge will be built; They will also take a cultural tour to learn about Chubut's Welsh roots.
These missionaries belong to the international Christian organization “Mission24” and the Welsh Revival Alliance. In cooperation with the Coordinator of Missions in Spain and South America, Claudio Coque, and the fifteen Christian missionaries who accompany him, they will deliver twenty-five thousand Bible Gospels from the Book of Saint John, twenty thousand of which are written in Spanish. And five thousand in Welsh.
Members of the British Parliament, through public funds, supported the printing of these twenty-five thousand Bibles as a donation from the government, thus strengthening relations between Chubut Province and Wales.
These Bibles will be distributed in the various Welsh churches they will visit on their cultural tour of Rawson, Trelew and Geman.
The visit comes in light of the 159th anniversary of the arrival of the Welsh on July 28, which commemorates the arrival of the Welsh from Liverpool on board the sailing ship “Mimosa” to the Golfo Nuevo region in 1865, from where they were later distributed towards the lower part of the country. The Valley and the Cordillera are looking for an opportunity and a place to practice their faith, speak their language and preserve their traditions. Here, in our province, they found that place and that opportunity, to protect their mother tongue, their traditions and their faith; Which shaped the landscape and customs of a wide area of Chubut.
As the Welsh proposed in that arrival to engage and strengthen relations with the indigenous people of this Argentine soil, seeking to preserve their values and identity; The Chubut government also received a visit from this group of missionaries whose goal was similar: to strengthen cultural ties, defend but not impose faith-based values, and create bridges to bless this land.
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