The synod on synodality focuses on the call for interior renewal and constant conversion.…
01 Sep 2023
Sister Lourdes García, a Mexican Comboni missionary, works in the Bedouin communities of Jahalin,…
01 Sep 2023
For over a hundred years, the Comboni Missionaries have been working in north-eastern Uganda.…
01 Sep 2023
Hrusso Aka, an indigenous language in northern India, was on the verge of extinction.…
01 Sep 2023
The challenge of the Pentecostal churches. Young people who only want to leave. The…
01 Aug 2023
Hakuna is setting the lives of many young people ablaze, inside and outside the…
01 Aug 2023
What the Catholic Church is doing and what role it is playing in this…
01 Aug 2023
The history of the Armenian Catholic Church is made up of persecution but also…
01 Aug 2023
It is one of the best-known walks in the world. It is visited by…
01 Jul 2023
The project has taken its first steps and has a triple objective: to enhance…
01 Jul 2023
This month of July, Monsignor Paolo Martinelli celebrates one year since the beginning of…
01 Jul 2023
Being both a priest and a journalist represents the two most dangerous missions ever.…
01 Jul 2023
On the outskirts of the capital of the state of Amazonas, the Casa Mamãe…
01 Jun 2023
At St Michael’s Hospital in Donomanga, Chad, a team of health professionals, co-ordinated by…
01 Jun 2023
The many challenges of Monsignor Pablo Virgilio David, bishop of the diocese of Kalookan,…
01 Jun 2023
Share your faith. Approach the other without fear. Look to the future with hope.…
01 May 2023
Today, the atomic threat is less feared, but the risk of an increasingly widespread…
01 May 2023
The upcoming World Synod of Bishops and its preparations in synodal processes around the…
01 May 2023
He received the appointment as auxiliary bishop with "fear and trembling". But with a…
01 May 2023
This April, Rwanda commemorates the 29th anniversary of the genocide. The bitter fruit of…
01 Apr 2023
An outgoing church that experiences the presence of the Holy Spirit. The synodal journey…
01 Apr 2023
A visit to Maryam al-Adhra monastery; a place of dialogue and peace in Iraqi…
01 Apr 2023
Sister Nancy Thomas recounts her experience at Nirmala Bhavan, an institution for blind girls…
01 Apr 2023
The father of the Chinese Church has been declared venerable by Pope Francis. The…
01 Mar 2023
In northern Kenya, in the Samburu region, many young girls are married off to…
01 Mar 2023
“Africa: it is not a mine to be exploited or a land to be…
01 Mar 2023
To politicians: “It is time to move from words to deeds. It's time to…
01 Mar 2023
If ‘dialogue’ means ‘meeting through the word’ (‘dia-logos’), dialogue is necessary to walk together,…
01 Feb 2023
Drug trafficking, corruption, the danger of fraud in the next presidential elections. The Church's…
01 Feb 2023
The Comboni magazine ‘Esquila Misional’ celebrates 70 years of life. At the service of…
01 Feb 2023
A Spanish Claretian, for 35 years a missionary in Latin America, Fr. Maximino Cerezo…
01 Feb 2023
Persecuted and driven from their homeland, Sinjar, in Iraqi Kurdistan, Yazidis cling to their…
01 Jan 2023
The parish of St Daniel Comboni is located in the eastern part of Mamelodi,…
01 Jan 2023
It is a nation with a Protestant majority, with a strong presence of independent…
01 Jan 2023
In his long-serving ministry, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has unreservedly committed himself to the protection…
01 Jan 2023
Every year thousands of people go to pay homage to Saint Lazarus in El…
01 Dec 2022
In Bolivia, it is the Chuntunqui musical rhythm that leads the celebration of Christmas…
01 Dec 2022
Amina Wadud, one of the most important theologians of Islam, criticizes the Islamic patriarchate,…
01 Dec 2022
“It is not enough to say that the Church is missionary. It is necessary…
01 Dec 2022
The Coptic Church of Egypt and the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia are joining hands…
01 Nov 2022
Anti-apartheid activist and internationally renowned theologian, Father Albert Nolan, died in the early hours…
01 Nov 2022
On 20 November 2022, Comboni Father Joseph Ambrosoli will be beatified in Kalongo in…
01 Nov 2022
Anti-apartheid activist and internationally renowned theologian, Father Albert Nolan, died in the early hours…
01 Nov 2022
We have asked mons. John Baptist Odama, Archbishop of Gulu in Uganda the meaning…
01 Nov 2022
During the night, an armed group attacks the mission of Chipene, a small village…
01 Oct 2022
This year World Mission Day will be celebrated on Sunday, on 23 October, focused…
01 Oct 2022
The diocese of Ciudad Guzmán in the Mexican state of Jalisco has recently celebrated…
01 Oct 2022
The renowned African theologian Prof. Fr. Laurenti Magesa died on 11 August, in Dar…
01 Oct 2022
Carajàs is considered the largest open cast iron mine in the world, in the…
01 Sep 2022
From the diocese of Pando in the Bolivian Amazon region, Monsignor Eugenio Coter explains…
01 Sep 2022
Death, kidnapping, extortion, and intimidation have become a daily reality for many priests and…
01 Sep 2022
Designing the 'Common House'. Overall pastoral care. The Synod: 'Live the experience of the…
01 Sep 2022
A large number of initiatives have been started in the parish of Kariobangi in…
01 Aug 2022
After last year's postponement due to Covid-19, the XI World Assembly of the WCC…
01 Aug 2022
In the Central Latin-American tradition, devotion is strong to Our Lady with the child…
01 Aug 2022
‘Listening’ means taking on board the new geometry of the Church: circular, horizontal, ‘multifaceted’,…
01 Aug 2022
The ‘Good Living’ is an integral way of perceiving and living life: everything is…
01 Jul 2022
The Telema Mental Health Centre in Kinshasa is a place where the mentally ill…
01 Jul 2022
Four African Sisters have restored life to a monastery founded in 1931 by a…
01 Jul 2022
The Mediterranean as a meeting place. Brotherhood as a sign of life. The canonization…
01 Jul 2022
Schools, female entrepreneurship, microcredit. These are some of the initiatives of the Oblates of…
01 Jun 2022
Crowded cells, a corrupt judicial system, a health crisis aggravated by the Coronavirus. A…
01 Jun 2022
The Nyota Centre in Bukavu gives hope to many young girls who have suffered…
01 Jun 2022
The pilgrimages of the various Andean communities are a combination of ancestral traditions and…
01 Jun 2022
The invasion of Ukraine by Russia is also having serious consequences on the ecclesial…
01 May 2022
Many shrines and pilgrimage sites in honour of the Virgin Mary have sprung up…
01 May 2022
‘Labour Day’, is celebrated on the first of May along with the religious feast…
01 May 2022
In theory, there has always been ‘harmony’, that is, close collaboration between church and…
01 May 2022
In Tumaco, Colombia, a decade ago, the Afro Youth Centre was established to enable…
01 Apr 2022
Since 1935, at Karak, in the poorest province of the country, the Comboni Sisters…
01 Apr 2022
There are over one hundred priests serving on the African continent who have left…
01 Apr 2022
The Comboni Missionary Sisters celebrate the 150th year since their foundation. A year to…
01 Apr 2022
Pope Francis transforms the Synod of Bishops from an ‘event’ to a ‘process’, with…
01 Mar 2022
The Al Mowafaqa Ecumenical Institute of Theology in Rabat, created at the initiative of…
01 Mar 2022
Since the 2011 Arab uprisings, Christians in Egypt have lived on a knife edge…
01 Mar 2022
In the face of epochal transformations, the missionary service is called to renew itself.…
01 Mar 2022
The situation of Christians in Egypt is that of a varied minority. They do…
01 Feb 2022
There are more than two hundred radio, from Angola to Zambia reaching millions of…
01 Feb 2022
Christians and Muslims work together to prevent Islamic radicalism from taking hold in the…
01 Feb 2022
Symbol of non-violent resistance to apartheid and the creation of a new nation, Tutu…
01 Feb 2022
To be a people and to make theology with the people. Living the experience…
01 Jan 2022
Twenty-five years have passed since a small group of Comboni missionaries arrived in Macao…
01 Jan 2022
Water is sacred in Andean culture. It is both life and a human right; they…
01 Jan 2022
Tigray, a region of Ethiopia, guards a series of interesting churches, some of which…
01 Jan 2022
They toil in dark and poorly secured tunnels - always looking for the one…
01 Dec 2021
The life of the Filipino villages and parishes is built around the “Fiesta”, a…
01 Dec 2021
The daily life of a Mexican priest, threatened with death and target of an…
01 Dec 2021
Some Franciscan Sisters have succeeded in combining tradition and innovation. The ‘Assisi Garments’ project…
01 Dec 2021
After leading for twenty-six years the Apostolic Vicariate of Esmeraldas, on the north-western coast…
01 Nov 2021
A young man is killed. The family members arrange the vendetta. The blood of…
01 Nov 2021
The Coronavirus pandemic has hit Brazil's indigenous people even harder than the rest of…
01 Nov 2021
Pope Francis has approved a decree on the heroic virtues of the Little Sister…
01 Nov 2021
Sixty Comboni Missionaries have died due to the Coronavirus with around 350 infected. Many…
01 Oct 2021
The religious institutes have created a support network for the many migrants coming to…
01 Oct 2021
An extremely polarised country where belonging to a family or clan is much more…
01 Oct 2021
A battle between the supporters of President Tshisekedi and the two main churches of…
01 Oct 2021
The Diocesan Delegation for Tangier Migrants is a church organisation that receives migrants in the north…
01 Sep 2021, Churches September 2021
Every two hours a woman disappears due to gender violence and human trafficking. Sister Benjamine Kimala…
01 Sep 2021, Churches September 2021
It may be a small and insignificant place but Tumaco, in the south west of the…
01 Sep 2021, Churches September 2021
A worldwide network of consecrated life determined to put an end to the trafficking of persons…
01 Sep 2021, Churches September 2021
Like Moses, Cardinal Monsengwo, who died in France 11 July last aged 81, fought for most…
01 Aug 2021, Churches August 2021
On a hill between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem stands a village that is an oasis of…
01 Aug 2021, Churches August 2021
Two Comboni missionary sisters from DR Congo share their experience. Compassion, commitment, and hope are the…
01 Aug 2021, Churches August 2021
After ten years of the declaration of independence, South Sudan continue to suffer the drama of…
01 Aug 2021, Churches August 2021
In the Bay of Manila, north of the Philippine capital, it is already possible to see…
01 Jul 2021, Churches July 2021
Just over a century after he died as a martyr, Blessed Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916), who…
01 Jul 2021, Churches July 2021
With a new Apostolic Letter Antiquum Ministerium (Ancient Ministry), Pope Francis establishes the lay ministry of…
01 Jul 2021, Churches July 2021
A country broken by years of civil war. The difficult journey towards reconstruction. The need for…
01 Jul 2021, Churches July 2021
Kuchinate is the name chosen by a group of African women seeking asylum in Israel. They…
01 Jun 2021, Churches June 2021
A total of one hundred and thirty years those three Comboni missionaries spent in Africa. Three…
01 Jun 2021, Churches June 2021
To recreate the social and interreligious fabric of a society torn by war, it is necessary…
01 Jun 2021, Churches June 2021
In Mexico City, from 21 to 28 November, the first ecclesial Assembly of Latin America and…
01 Jun 2021, Churches June 2021
Kidnappings, rapes and murders are part of daily life for many in the north of Nigeria.…
01 May 2021, Churches May 2021
The Daniel Comboni House of the Comboni Missionary Sisters is a structure that assists the social…
01 May 2021, Churches May 2021
On a hill in the city of Bukavu in the south of the DR Congo, a…
01 May 2021, Churches May 2021
For months he travels in an armoured car and an armed police escort. He did not…
01 May 2021, Churches May 2021
The meaning of the first appointment of a woman under-secretary of the most important Vatican Secretariat.…
01 Apr 2021, Churches April 2021
Fifty years in India alongside the lepers. Curing their wounds but also rejoicing with each one…
01 Apr 2021, Churches April 2021
In 2021 the Church in the Philippines marks half a millennium of Christianity. “We are all…
01 Apr 2021, Churches April 2021
There have been close to twelve peace agreements but they have failed to bring about significant…
01 Apr 2021, Churches April 2021
The most important period of the year for Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia is the Lent fast…
01 Mar 2021, Churches March 2021
An unstable region. “Young people abandoned to themselves find a solution to their problems in Jihadism.…
01 Mar 2021, Churches March 2021
A Sunday with Father Anthony Assebiah, Parish Priest of Beyin in Kengen, Southern Ghana. As soon…
01 Mar 2021, Churches March 2021
Holy Week in Taxco involves one of the most moving and impressive liturgical ceremonies to be…
01 Mar 2021, Churches March 2021
“If I am because we are, then true fraternity leaves no one behind, because we are…
01 Feb 2021, Churches February 2021
Even though the grand procession of the image of the Black Nazarene has been canceled this…
01 Feb 2021, Churches February 2021
The Democratic Republic of Congo continues to be afflicted by most serious political and social tensions,…
01 Feb 2021, Churches February 2021
A fierce opponent of the regime of Paul Biya, he energetically promoted dialogue between the central…
01 Feb 2021, Churches February 2021
The coronavirus pandemic is changing how people live and relate to others while deeply influencing Afro-Colombian…
01 Jan 2021, Churches January 2021
“As missionaries, we try to share as much as possible the life of our people, creating…
01 Jan 2021, Churches January 2021
It is more than 30 years since the Comboni Family has been enriched by the presence…
01 Jan 2021, Churches January 2021
A Dominican friar shares his experience of spending his yearly vacation in an ashram in India.…
01 Jan 2021, Churches January 2021
The new encyclical of Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti (Brothers All) draws attention to social consciousness of…
01 Dec 2020, Churches December 2020
The serious crisis in the tea plantations. Alternative forms of working. Commitment to education. The role…
01 Dec 2020, Churches December 2020
A great opportunity to rediscover the reasons for a presence. A multicultural community. Dialogue with Islam.…
01 Dec 2020, Churches December 2020
Especially present socially with its work among street children, immigrants and, more recently, the disabled. The…
01 Dec 2020, Churches December 2020
A project that tries to return street children to their families. Stories that seem to come…
01 Nov 2020, Churches November 2020
"I am totally paralysed, but I feel a fullness of mind and heart that surprises me,…
01 Nov 2020, Churches November 2020
Small Christina communities. Inculturation. Lay movements and a growing number of development projects. These are signs…
01 Nov 2020, Churches November 2020
Thousands risk their lives in the ‘Rat-holes’ in India. Most of them are poor immigrants from…
01 Oct 2020, Churches October 2020
Since the start of the evangelisation of Sudan, education has been a priority for missionaries. And…
01 Oct 2020, Churches October 2020
This year World Mission Day will be celebrated on Sunday, 18 October. In his message, Pope…
01 Oct 2020, Churches October 2020
The Comboni Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre (CIEC) is an incubator for business that seeks to bring…
01 Sep 2020, Churches September 2020
Social themes, in general, and those economic, in particular, are at the centre of the pontificate…
01 Sep 2020, Churches September 2020
On the edge of the on the border between Niger and Burkina Faso, the Fatebenefratelli friars…
01 Sep 2020, Churches September 2020
The Tanzanian-born priest, Fr. Charles Nyamiti, will be remember as eminent pioneer of African Theology “brewed…
01 Aug 2020, Churches August 2020
She manages the Damien Hospital, the only specialized facility to treat leprosy, tuberculosis and AIDS in…
01 Aug 2020, Churches August 2020
In Chad, a missionary who has lived in the country for over 53 years creates a…
01 Aug 2020, Churches August 2020
Brazil is the country struck hardest by Covid 19. Combonian Father Saverio Paolillo has sent us…
01 Aug 2020, Churches August 2020
A small community that lives its faith through testimony. One of the great challenges is the…
01 Jul 2020, Churches July 2020
Comboni Missionaries have been living with the Nuer people for almost twenty five years. They have…
01 Jul 2020, Churches July 2020
Kazakhstan is the country of Central Asia with the largest number of Catholics. Small communities scattered…
01 Jul 2020, Churches July 2020
St. Mary’s Hospital is located in the Arab market district of Khartoum. More than 300 children…
01 Jul 2020, Churches July 2020
A church that wants to be a ‘bridge’ between the Christian and Islamic worlds. Deeply involved…
01 Jun 2020, Churches June 2020
The Ecclesial Network for the Congo River Basin (REBAC, from its acronym in French) aims to…
01 Jun 2020, Churches June 2020
“This is no longer the time for clashes between believers. Following the example of our martyrs,…
01 Jun 2020, Churches June 2020
It is difficult to be a Church in a place of violence and instability. “We are…
01 Jun 2020, Churches June 2020
The Union of Superiors General of Catholic Religious Sisters launched the “Sowing Hope for the Planet”…
01 May 2020, Churches May 2020
The Coronavirus pandemic is spreading across Africa. The virus has gradually attacked almost all its countries. To…
01 May 2020, Churches May 2020
After 45 years of missionary work in Bangladesh, Fr Bob McCahill still continues pedaling to find…
01 Apr 2020, Churches April 2020
The suburb of Mukuru is home to about 600,000 people. This area, which is experiencing severe…
01 Apr 2020, Churches April 2020
He was rector of the Mar Elian shrine and parish priest of the Syrian Catholic community…
01 Apr 2020, Churches April 2020
This year marks the centenary of the birth of Focolare Movement founder Chiara Lubich. She is…
01 Apr 2020, Churches April 2020
On 22 November 2020, the Italian Comboni priest Father Giuseppe Ambrosoli will be beatified in Kalongo…
01 Mar 2020, Churches March 2020
A Benedictine theologian, activist, missionary and intellectual, Sr. Mary John Mananzan speaks of the Philippines of…
01 Mar 2020, Churches March 2020
A country where injustice and impunity reign. A government that threatens the Church. Youth in search…
01 Mar 2020, Churches March 2020
Boys collect plastic bottles on the streets while others take them from the polluted waters of…
01 Feb 2020, Churches February 2020
From being a tiny minority, the Church in the Northeast region of India has grown exponentially…
01 Feb 2020, Churches February 2020
Faced with the violence of criminal gangs that have overwhelmed the lives of many children, the Kenyan activist opened the doors of her home, giving…
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