Medellin, Colombia - May 2016 – There was a meeting on 16 May in the Provincial House in Medellín (COM) of Fr Ivo Coelho, Councillor General for Formation and Fr Timothy Ploch, Councillor for the Inter-America Region, with the Provincials of the Andean Region: Fr Jaime Morales (COB), Fr Santo Dal Ben (PER), Fr Javier Ortíz (BOL), Fr Jorge Molina (ECU), and Fr John Jairo Gómez (COM). The purpose of the meeting was to ensure that the initial training processes achieve the desired objectives for Consecrated Life - lay and priestly - and the analysis and evaluation of the various forms of collaboration between provinces sharing the formative stage in the Theologate in Bogotá.