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…
01 Sep 2021
Every two hours a woman disappears due to gender violence and human trafficking. Sister…
01 Sep 2021
It may be a small and insignificant place but Tumaco, in the south west…
01 Sep 2021
A worldwide network of consecrated life determined to put an end to the trafficking…
01 Sep 2021
Like Moses, Cardinal Monsengwo, who died in France 11 July last aged 81, fought…
01 Aug 2021
On a hill between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem stands a village that is an…
01 Aug 2021
Two Comboni missionary sisters from DR Congo share their experience. Compassion, commitment, and hope…
01 Aug 2021
After ten years of the declaration of independence, South Sudan continue to suffer the…
01 Aug 2021
In the Bay of Manila, north of the Philippine capital, it is already possible…
01 Jul 2021
Just over a century after he died as a martyr, Blessed Charles de Foucauld…
01 Jul 2021
With a new Apostolic Letter Antiquum Ministerium (Ancient Ministry), Pope Francis establishes the lay…
01 Jul 2021
A country broken by years of civil war. The difficult journey towards reconstruction. The…
01 Jul 2021
Kuchinate is the name chosen by a group of African women seeking asylum in…
01 Jun 2021
A total of one hundred and thirty years those three Comboni missionaries spent in…
01 Jun 2021
To recreate the social and interreligious fabric of a society torn by war, it…
01 Jun 2021
In Mexico City, from 21 to 28 November, the first ecclesial Assembly of Latin…
01 Jun 2021
Kidnappings, rapes and murders are part of daily life for many in the north…
01 May 2021
The Daniel Comboni House of the Comboni Missionary Sisters is a structure that assists…
01 May 2021
On a hill in the city of Bukavu in the south of the DR…
01 May 2021
For months he travels in an armoured car and an armed police escort. He…
01 May 2021
The meaning of the first appointment of a woman under-secretary of the most important…
01 Apr 2021
Fifty years in India alongside the lepers. Curing their wounds but also rejoicing with…
01 Apr 2021
In 2021 the Church in the Philippines marks half a millennium of Christianity. “We…
01 Apr 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
In ancient times, the word ecumene denoted the whole known world and defined that portion of…
01 Jan 2020, Churches January 2020
Once the Pearl of the Pacific, it is now a hell inhabited by those involved in…
01 Jan 2020, Churches January 2020
A Catholic nurse dedicates her life to Meeting Point International, an association that takes care of…
01 Dec 2019, Churches December 2019
Evangelisation is transformation at two levels: religious and social. The ultimate end of evangelisation is the…
01 Dec 2019, Churches December 2019
Comboni Brother Juan Carlos Salgado, a medical doctor, has the joy of serving the poor and…
01 Dec 2019, Churches December 2019
A Camillian and also professor at the University of Ouagadougou, Father Jacques Simporè assists the sick…
01 Nov 2019, Churches November 2019
Originally from the Argentine, Mons. José Luis Gerardo Ponce de León has for five years been…
01 Nov 2019, Churches November 2019
She lives and works in the Democratic Republic of Congo and has dedicated all her life…
01 Nov 2019, Churches November 2019
More than a half century after a group of bishops at the Second Vatican Council made…
01 Nov 2019, Churches November 2019
On his 31st international journey (4 – 10 September), Pope Francis visited Mozambique, Madagascar and Mauritius.…
01 Oct 2019, Churches October 2019
This year, the Institute of Social Ministry in Mission, at Tangaza College in Nairobi, celebrate 25…
01 Oct 2019, Churches October 2019
In a small town near the heart of the Brazilian Amazon region, two Sisters help support…
01 Oct 2019, Churches October 2019
This year World Mission Sunday will be celebrated on 20 October. Under the theme "Baptized and…
01 Oct 2019, Churches October 2019
He could have left, and lived a better and more comfortable life. Instead he preferred to…
01 Sep 2019, Churches September 2019
What kind of challenges exist for Christians in Islamic countries? How to be a Christian among…
01 Sep 2019, Churches September 2019
There is no feast in Ethiopia, religious or civil, so popular and with such large social…
01 Sep 2019, Churches September 2019
For some time, the Catholic and Protestant communities have been a target for Islamic groups attempting…
01 Aug 2019, Churches August 2019
Fifty-seven years after their tragic deaths, the Roman Catholic Church of Congo has started the process…
01 Aug 2019, Churches August 2019
The Symposium of the Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) is celebrating its Golden Jubilee.…
01 Aug 2019, Churches August 2019
The Miguel Agustín Pro Juarez Human Rights Centre (Centro ProDH),founded by the Jesuits, is celebrating its…
01 Jul 2019, Churches July 2019
Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) take and practice their faith fervently wherever they go, wherever they are.…
01 Jul 2019, Churches July 2019
Pope Francis is going to Madagascar in September. During his stay he will visit the Akamasoa…
01 Jul 2019, Churches July 2019
The problem of immigration. Relations with Islam. Education as a means for spreading the values of…
01 Jun 2019, Churches June 2019
The Congolese activist and jurist Yvette Mushigo is the coordinator of the Synergie des Femmes pour la Paix et la Réconciliation (SPR), a network of…
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