South Sudan: The tenderness of God
“As missionaries, we try to share as much as possible the life of our people, creating situations of reconciliation and forgiveness.” We live in the village of Nyal, in the county of Painjiar, in South Sudan where one can come only by using the helicopters of the World Food Programme (WFP). We live in a […]
No one is safe until everyone is safe
The coronavirus pandemic has taught us how vulnerable and interdependent we are. The pandemic is global; so must be the solution! Scientists have responded to this challenge by developing in record time vaccines that can help us overcome the pandemic. They were able to achieve this result thanks to the billions of dollars of public […]
Comboni Brother Joshua dei Cas: The Grace of Leprosy
“I think I am the only one in the whole Institute who does not have to think of the work to be done tomorrow! My days are spent in the company of my African brothers; I talk to them of the Goodness of God. The Ndogo language is a bit hard for me, but I […]
Nicaragua: Street Children’s Circus
They are at the traffic lights, juggling their torches and coloured balls and performing acrobatics. The street children have invented a new approach to raising funds by amusing the motorists. It is evening and the traffic flows along the brightly lit street of Managua. At the traffic lights, children both large and small have exchanged […]
Comboni Lay Missionaries: Getting Involved
It is more than 30 years since the Comboni Family has been enriched by the presence of lay people, both single and married who decide to dedicate a period of their lives to work in the mission. Alberto de la Portillas, the general coordinator of the Comboni Lay Missionaries explains what it is about. The […]
Colombia: The Impact of COVID-19 on Spirituality
The coronavirus pandemic is changing how people live and relate to others while deeply influencing Afro-Colombian spirituality. Colombia has one of the largest Afro populations in Latin America. The Afro-Colombians make up 6.68% of the population (49.65 million). The coastal regions of Colombia may have a significant Afro-Colombian population of up to 90% in the […]
The pandemic response in an unequal world: the way forward with the vaccine
As COVID-19 vaccines begin to receive approval for use, the Secretary General of Caritas Internationalis, Aloysius John, reflects on the importance of equitable vaccine distribution. The COVID-19 virus has transformed our societies on a massive scale – disrupting economies, communities, families and individuals. A vaccine now appears at the horizon but are we prepared to […]
UNESCO: Couscous, ‘Live united’
Couscous, a popular emblematic dish of North Africa, has been placed on the list of intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO, at the joint request of Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia. It was something quite rare in the history of the Maghreb countries when Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia, in March 2019, together presented the candidate […]
Oral Literature: Why Monkeys Choose to Live Up Trees
From sunrise to sunset, old Bushcat was out hunting, but she had not been successful in finding food, not even a snake. So, exhausted, she lay down in the shade of an old, gnarled tree that was about the same age as she was. They had both known almost twenty summers. But Bushcat was restless […]
Sudan: An incubator for young entrepreneurs
The Comboni Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre (CIEC) is an incubator for business that seeks to bring together the original ideas of young entrepreneurs and the world of business. A model capable of contributing to the development of Sudan. We visited the establishment. A study conducted in 2018 by the Sudanese Association for Social Entrepreneurship has […]