Mission Transport Working Group

The Missions-Verkehrs-Arbeitsgemeinschaft (MIVA) is an aid organization of the Catholic Church in Austria and Germany with the aim of financing vehicles of all kinds for use in missions and development aid. She receives requests for support from all over the world, which must be approved by the respective diocesan bishops of the young churches. In Austria, the allocation committee decides.

The organization was originally founded in Germany in 1927 by Paul Schulte . The Austrian organization (seat Stadl-Paura ) has the legal form of a church foundation .

The Christophorus collection every year at the end of July goes to MIVA. For every accident-free kilometer driven, 1 tenth of a cent will be donated to a mission vehicle.

Web links

Official website

Individual evidence

↑ MIVA financed 1,387 vehicles for the mission in the previous year. religion.orf.at, March 18, 2009, accessed June 6, 2018 .
↑ 80 years of the Missions-Verkehrs-Arbeitsgemeinschaft (MIVA). Website of the Diocese of St. Pölten, accessed on June 6, 2018 .
^ Statute of the church foundation "MIVA Austria". Website of the Institute for Practical Theology at the University of Innsbruck, accessed on June 6, 2018 .
^ Commemoration of the 100th birthday of "Sternsinger-Grandpa" Karl Kumpfmüller. Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, January 3, 2018, accessed on June 6, 2018 .

[1] MIVA financed 1,387 vehicles for the mission in the previous year. religion.orf.at, March 18, 2009, accessed June 6, 2018 .

[2] 80 years of the Missions-Verkehrs-Arbeitsgemeinschaft (MIVA). Website of the Diocese of St. Pölten, accessed on June 6, 2018 .

[3] Statute of the church foundation "MIVA Austria". Website of the Institute for Practical Theology at the University of Innsbruck, accessed on June 6, 2018 .

[4] Commemoration of the 100th birthday of "Sternsinger-Grandpa" Karl Kumpfmüller. Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, January 3, 2018, accessed on June 6, 2018 .