Mission: To the last breath
Sixty Comboni Missionaries have died due to the Coronavirus with around 350 infected. Many of them spent their whole lives in Africa or Latin America. We remember three of them. The sun is setting at Lachor Hospital in Northern Uganda. Brother Elio makes his way home after a long day’s work. He is worried […]
South Sudan: Being part of a universal Church
An extremely polarised country where belonging to a family or clan is much more important than one’s national identity. The new bishop of Rumbek, Mons Christian Carlassare invites the Christians to be part of a universal family rather than to a clan or ethnic group. The Gospel is indeed inspiring but that does not lessen […]
Mexico: Santa Clara del Cobre – The Copper Capital
Santa Clara del Cobre, a picturesque pre-Hispanic town better known nationwide as the Copper Capital is located 17 kilometres from Patzcuaro in Mexico’s state of Michoacán. We visit the place. Its original inhabitants, the Purepechas, were one of the pre-Columbian peoples who best worked with metals, particularly in copper, gold and silversmithing. They knew how to […]
Oral literature: Peace among the animals
The sun rose in a clear sky and shed its morning light on the peaks of the mountains highlighting their rocky ridges. As the sun rose higher, its brightness crept lower until it illumined fields of wheat that flourished at the base of the hills that form the mountainous kingdom of Lesotho. It was the […]
On defence of water and the right to live well
On August 23, 2021, at the Tacagua’ camp of Challapata, Oruro (Bolivia), thanks to the support of the CASA Collective, about 150 members of the communities that make up the National Network of Women in Defense of Mother Earth gathered. The concern was the threat of mining companies in their attempt to explore in order […]
Uganda: Ekipeyos – The prayer of the elders
Stricken by adversity a Karimojong man, a member of an ethnic group of northern Uganda, does not keep it to himself but renders the entire community participants in his sorrow. Above all, he entrusts himself to the prayers of the elders who come to his aid with a traditional community celebration called the ekipeyos. The […]
South Sudan: Sowing peace amid the violence
A young man is killed. The family members arrange the vendetta. The blood of the culture seems to be thicker than the waters of Baptism. Reflections of a missionary who spent fifty years in Africa. It is just a month since the life of my friend James was snuffed out, the umpteenth life cut short […]
Oral Literature: Why Children Belong to the Mother
There was once an animal called Ejimm, which had two sons, named Obegud and Igwe. They lived in the forest, near the home of a poor man and wife who had twelve children. One day these parents left their children at home and went to their farm. While they were away, and the children were […]
Mexico: Welcome to Tijuana
The religious institutes have created a support network for the many migrants coming to the city in the hope of moving legally, or even illegally, to the United States. We visited the Migrants House. The numerous white crosses close to the famous Las Playas beach are in memory of the many migrants who lost their […]
Pope Francis: “To make the Church more inclusive”
The Pope highlights the importance of inclusiveness and fraternity in his 2021 Message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, stressing that an ever wider “we” will help renew the human family, build a future of justice and peace, and ensure that no one is left behind. Setting the scene for the message for […]
