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Our Mission

The Black and Indian Mission Office is comprised of three distinct but inter-related organizations, each with its own purpose and history, but all seeking to fulfill the one Mission to the Missions! Founded by the Catholic bishops of the United States, each organization cooperates with local diocesan communities to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ and respond to real and pressing needs on the ground. Read more and join us in our Mission to the Missions!

Catholic Negro-American
Mission Board

established 1907, united with BIMO 1980

the Black and Indian
Mission Collection

The Black and Indian Mission Collection exists to help local African American and Native American Diocesan Communities throughout the United States spread the Good News of Jesus Christ and respond to real and pressing needs on the ground.

News and Events

BIMO News | 

Experience two powerful new documentaries celebrating the faith, culture, and resilience of Native American and African American Catholics.

Indian Mission | 

The measure of our success has come to light in a series of ways over these last few busy weeks, as our graduation ceremony concludes and the students depart for the long summer vacation.

Indian Mission | 

Although we are well into the summer vacation at the school, life is as busy as ever around the campus. We of course ended the school year with the graduation of our 8th Graders.

Indian Mission | 

For the children of Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, beginning pre-K and going out to experience something new, school for the first time was like being at home with familiar faces there to meet and greet them.

Indian Mission | 

Maȟpíya Lúta embraces Lakȟota and Jesuit Catholic values to foster community growth through education and culture.

Black Catholic Mission | 

"No Ways Tired", was this year's theme for the Twenty-Second annual Archbishop Lyke Conference held in Greenville, South Carolina.