Vocation Story: “I have tried to live with hope and charity”
Father Victor Kouande Adekoun, a Comboni missionary from Togo speaks to us of his various experiences. Just one common denominator: the constant presence of God. I was born on 23 December 1967, a little over 53 years ago, in Kodjoviakope, a district in the outskirts of Lomé, the capital of Togo. I was given the […]
Charles de Foucauld: The Gospel in the land of the Sahara
Just over a century after he died as a martyr, Blessed Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916), who brought the Gospel to many and lived among the Tuareg people in the Algerian desert, will be proclaimed a saint later this year. Charles called himself a “missionary monk” and came to establish his hermitage in the desert in […]
Vocation Story: Father Zoé Musaka, Life Witness
It was when he read the life of Saint Daniel Comboni that he first felt the Comboni missionary calling. The war in the north of his country confirmed his decision to follow this path. Today he is working in Spain, open to the great challenges faced by a Church with a long Christian tradition. Fr […]
Oral literature: The Tortoise, the Leopard and the Bush Rat
Once there was a great famine on earth, and all the animals were very thin and weak from want of food; but there was one exception, and that was the tortoise and all his family. They were very fat, and did not seem to suffer at all. Even the leopard was very thin, in spite […]
John Kuk Baluang: “My vocation is to be a catechist”
“I always trust God in my life and he has never abandoned me. He has shown me in so many different ways his love and protection!” He was born in 1951, in Gany a village of Jagei in Western Upper Nile. In 1970 he went to Khartoum. There he met some friends from his home […]
Mary Nyaluak Luny, ready to serve in any work that is needed in the Church
Women have played important roles in the Catholic Church in Africa. They are the ones that carry on the most activities in the communities. Many of them are catechists. Mary Nyaluak Luny is involved in the Church’s ministry. She is a 50-year-old widow. Born in Patit, Jagei, she was married while a teenager. After she […]
African Catechists: James Duol Kai, the father and the founder of the Catholic Church in Nuerland
With a new Apostolic Letter Antiquum Ministerium (Ancient Ministry), Pope Francis establishes the lay ministry of catechist. In Africa catechists have been the cornerstone of the church. The beginning of the Catholic Church in the rural areas of Nuerland, in Western Upper Nile, in South Sudan is unique. Hundreds of catechists worked by themselves for […]
Venezuela: The Indios Warao, the ‘boat people’
The Warao indigenous people inhabit the states of Bolívar, Monagas, Sucre and Delta Amacuro in the eastern part of Venezuela. The majority of them lives on the banks of the Orinoco River in the Delta Amacuro. This tribe, which is currently estimated to number about 50,000, is the second-largest indigenous group in Venezuela, after the […]
Oral Literature: The Buffalo and the Bees
It was while grazing one night under the watchful eye of the king of the night and his tribe of stars, that the leader of a herd of very strong buffaloes decided to move to a place where there was better grazing. They journeyed for many days and arrived at a place where life was […]
Malawi: End Plastic Pollution
This year the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, also known as the “Green Nobel Prize” has been awarded to six environmental activists among them Gloria Majiga-Kamoto from Malawi. Around the world, plastic pollution has become a huge problem. In Malawi, each year, 75,000 tons of plastic are produced, of which 80% is single-use. Urbanization and a […]
