A special Synod on the Amazon called by Pope Francis to be held in Rome this October. The difficulties and…
01 Sep 2019
He could have left, and lived a better and more comfortable life. Instead he…
01 Sep 2019
What kind of challenges exist for Christians in Islamic countries? How to be a…
01 Sep 2019
There is no feast in Ethiopia, religious or civil, so popular and with such…
01 Sep 2019
For some time, the Catholic and Protestant communities have been a target for Islamic…
01 Aug 2019
Fifty-seven years after their tragic deaths, the Roman Catholic Church of Congo has started…
01 Aug 2019
With the publication of the Instrumentum laboris, preparation for the special Assembly of the…
01 Aug 2019
The Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) is celebrating its…
01 Aug 2019
The Miguel Agustín Pro Juarez Human Rights Centre (Centro ProDH),founded by the Jesuits, is…
01 Jul 2019
Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) take and practice their faith fervently wherever they go, wherever…
01 Jul 2019
Rethink the figure of the priest in light of the indigenous experience. Involving the…
01 Jul 2019
Pope Francis is going to Madagascar in September. During his stay he will visit…
01 Jul 2019
The problem of immigration. Relations with Islam. Education as a means for spreading the…
01 Jun 2019
A small community in an Islamic world. Witness and service to the poorest. “The contribution which…
01 Jun 2019
Bishop Emeritus of Xingu, Erwin Krautler, traces the history of the Church in the…
01 Jun 2019
A place where children find understanding and dignity. Comboni Missionary Father Saverio Paolillo explains.…
01 Jun 2019
On last 27 April, in La Rioja, Bishop Angelelli, together with two priests and…
01 May 2019
On his knees before President Salva Kiir and the Vice-Presidents Designate who are to…
01 May 2019
We talk about the different aspects of the Amazonian reality and the hopes placed…
01 May 2019
After the liberation of Mosul and the Plain of Nineveh, thousands of Christians are…
01 May 2019
A poor woman takes a foreign mother into her house and looks after her…
01 Apr 2019
A vast consultation process involving many communities in Amazonia. A new way of being…
01 Apr 2019
In Brazil, where prisons are places of violence and the rate of re-offending is…
01 Apr 2019
The role of the bishops in the recent socio-political events in the country. The…
01 Apr 2019
The Church must accompany the indigenous peoples defending their culture. The importance of a…
01 Mar 2019
The challenge to poverty in an area rich in oil. Young people and the…
01 Mar 2019
About 700 Ethiopian refugees survive thanks to the work of an Orthodox priest of…
01 Mar 2019
Love for the people and the youth of ethnic minorities has borne fruit in…
01 Mar 2019
In view of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region scheduled to meet…
01 Feb 2019
Ethiopia is Africa's second largest refugee hosting country with more than 800,000 of them…
01 Feb 2019
Living with the street people. Evangelising the “inferno” of drugs. Experiencing “Mission Bethlehem”. It…
01 Feb 2019
Kamiti penitentiary in the outskirts of Nairobi hosts more than 4,200 detainees. The Consolata…
01 Feb 2019
The feast of Timket or Baptism of the Lord is celebrated in Ethiopia on…
01 Jan 2019
The Menjas live in the south-west of Ethiopia. They are marginalized and discriminated by…
01 Jan 2019
Hundreds children are begging in the streets of Kampala City. A Comboni missionary, Father…
01 Jan 2019
Despite having lost both legs in a bomb explosion, Sr. Present returns to her…
01 Jan 2019
Many years ago, a local district officer gave a small plot for a non-formal…
01 Dec 2018
The comfort of political correctness to the detriment of ecumenical dialogue. In an Egyptian…
01 Dec 2018
The Christmas cycle begins with a long period of fasting, corresponding to Advent in…
01 Dec 2018
The continual political repression by the government, the Sinologisation of religion. It was in…
01 Dec 2018
Brother Karl Gaspar, an award-winning writer, respected socio-anthropologist, theologian, interfaith scholar, and missionary from…
01 Nov 2018
After thirty eight years of impunity, the process of identifying the assassins and those…
01 Nov 2018
She is the first female mechanic in the country. She runs the Garage Saint…
01 Nov 2018
Every year, thousands of migrants and refugees arrive in Johannesburg from several African countries.…
01 Nov 2018
It consists in a microcredit project for women and grants for school fees for…
01 Oct 2018
Seventeen abandoned children have been rescued from wandering around the streets and started 'the…
01 Oct 2018
The theme of this year: “Together with young people, let us bring the Gospel…
01 Oct 2018
Some dioceses have had their priests killed and churches destroyed but nevertheless they take…
01 Oct 2018
This year, the Missionaries of Africa (also known as the White Fathers) celebrate 150…
01 Sep 2018
Bishops and priests threatened with death. Churches profaned. Nevertheless, the Church has become a…
01 Sep 2018
The Catholic Church celebrates the bicentenary of its presence in South Africa. From the…
01 Sep 2018
The number of Christians in Algeria is not high, however, they are generally well…
01 Sep 2018
For the last five years, a retired engineer and his wife have been feeding…
01 Aug 2018
For 35 years now, Grégoire Ahongbonon has been helping African mental patients, providing them…
01 Aug 2018
The Comboni Missionaries have established the Centre for Rural Innovation and Agroecological Development of…
01 Aug 2018
On the theme: “America on a Mission, the Gospel is joy”, the Fifth American…
01 Aug 2018
As we approach the Pan-Amazonian Synod, the importance the indigenous culture. Two Augustinians, who…
01 Jul 2018
Founded in Kerala fifty years ago, the Missionary Society of St Thomas is the…
01 Jul 2018
The parish of St. Francis Xavier in the outskirts of Maputo: a centre of…
01 Jul 2018
Spirit, body and the psyche are to be helped grow together in a journey…
01 Jul 2018
Started in a Comboni Parish Our Lady of Africa in Mbuya in the outskirts…
01 Jun 2018
It is called Sarva Seva Sangh which means “a community at the service of…
01 Jun 2018
Commitment to work side by side with immigrants right to the end. A Church…
01 Jun 2018
In the last three months, eight priests and dozens of Christians have also been…
01 Jun 2018
Pope Francis has written a new Apostolic Exhortation on “the call to holiness in…
01 May 2018
A sound formation, pastoral competence, a political vision and single-mindedness are the distinctive traits…
01 May 2018
The journey of the Catholic Church. Commitment to authentic interreligious dialogue. Social works. Education.…
01 May 2018
In the end, Mons. Peter Okpaleke resigned. He was rejected by local priests and…
01 May 2018
Rebecca Bitrus, a former Boko Haram captive, shares with us her experience but above…
01 Apr 2018
On both sides of the border between Ecuador and Peru, there are oil and…
01 Apr 2018
In the centre of Colombian Amazonia we find the Vicariate of Puerto Leguízamo-Solano, created…
01 Apr 2018
In Ceará, one of the poorest states of Brazil, and one of the most…
01 Apr 2018
A Church that is attentive to the situation of the people. Pastoral decisions that…
01 Mar 2018
A tiny group of Christians in a predominantly Moslem environment, determined to forge ties…
01 Mar 2018
Land grabbing and the scarce revenue generated by agriculture are forcing Burkinabe farmers off…
01 Mar 2018
Despite the bloody repression of the pro-democracy marches organised by roman catholic organizations and…
01 Mar 2018
Every year, young students from Madagascar participate in the sports and cultural competitions that…
01 Feb 2018
“Assuming responsibility for an 'Integral Ecology' in our lives poses challenges for us, both…
01 Feb 2018
A Comboni missionary describes how his life became more meaningful when he was assigned…
01 Feb 2018
The shooting has stopped in Aleppo. The city is totally destroyed. The difficult process…
01 Feb 2018
The celebrations of the three hundredth anniversary of the rediscovery of the statue of…
01 Jan 2018
The Jesuits in Africa are 1,600, and they work in 34 countries. They are…
01 Jan 2018
As the bloody campaign against illegal drugs and crime continues under the present administration,…
01 Jan 2018
Indigenous Africa offers examples of alternative ways to reach peace. It is the way…
01 Jan 2018
It is three years since a meeting in Brasilia between the bishops of the…
01 Dec 2017
Chichicastenango is a beautiful village at the bottom of a mountain, amidst the Sierra…
01 Dec 2017
The Nacala Women’s Polytechnic School, which is run by the Comboni Missionary Sisters, was…
01 Dec 2017
A mission in continual transformation. The commitment to proclaim truth and justice. Migrants as…
01 Dec 2017
Places sacred to both Christians and Moslems where the faithful tend to join together…
01 Nov 2017
She has helped deliver 34,000 babies. Close friendship with a Moslem Imam; she has…
01 Nov 2017
A contemplative community inserted into the social texture of the village, through prayer and…
01 Nov 2017
Napenda Kuishi Rehabilitation is a rehabilitation programme for Nairobi street children run by Comboni…
01 Nov 2017
Sr. Eva Maamo and her team of doctors at the Foundation of Our Lady…
01 Oct 2017
This year’s World Mission Day will celebrated on October 22, under the theme: “Mission…
01 Oct 2017
At ‘Gospel House’ for the care of the elderly, Sister Valentina Sakker, 85, looks…
01 Oct 2017
Announcing life and hope inTrujillo, a city in coastal Northwestern Peru, where poverty persists…
01 Oct 2017
Advocacy is about politics and change, values and beliefs, consciousness and knowledge. It is about building democratic organizations and expanding citizens’ skills to understand how…
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In the old days, all the animals used to make farms like men do today. They hoed the ground, planted the seed, harvested the grain and…
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Plastic is so prevalent in our lives that we don’t even notice it anymore. It is convenient. It is cheap. It is ubiquitous. The unfortunate truth…
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