Comboni Missionaries Ireland

The Asian Youth Day (AYD), a major event of Asia’s Catholic Church, is taking centre stage in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Some 3,000 young people from 29 Asian countries are expected to gather in the Javanese city, from the 20th July to the 9th August 2017, for the youth meeting on the theme,”Joyful Asian Youth: Living the […]

The latest report of U.N. Migration Agency (IOM) revealed more than 100,000 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea until the 3rd July and 2,247 deaths have been reported. The report, published on Tuesday, said a total of 101,210 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea, with 85 percent arriving in Italy while the rest

Pope Francis has appointed Father Jesús Ruiz Molina, a Comboni missionary as Auxiliary Bishop of the diocese of Bangassou, Central African Republic. He was assigned the seat of the titular Bishopric of Are in Mauritania. The new Bishop was born on January 23rd, 1959 in La Cueva de Roa, in the Diocese of Burgos –

Uganda and the US have ended a six-year hunt for the fugitive warlord Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army. The LRA, now believed to be down to less than 120 armed men, has splintered into small units operating in the remotest regions of eastern CAR, north-eastern Congo, and Darfur. Experts say that

How does the Ecumenical Community of Taizé plan to promote social development in Europe and in the world and how can it help to face the challenges of today? An answer from Brother Aloïs Löser, prior of Taizé.. Every life consecrated to the service of God and neighbour is a parable. A parable does not

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in the next two years, among others priorities, will focus on promoting sustainable agriculture, climate change mitigation and adaptation, poverty reduction, water scarcity, and migration. According to FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva the number of hungry people in the world has increased since 2015, reversing years of progress. He

A country in search of peace. A secondary school in Juba is trying to provide concrete answers. A city that formed on the left bank of the White Nile, about a hundred kilometres from the Ugandan border, Juba has been, since the eighteen hundreds, the principal city in the South of Sudan, a vast region

The tragedy of Venezuela is having repercussions across the borders. One to the south, the border with Brazil. The other one to the west, across the Colombian border. To the south is the border with Brazil: a thousand-kilometre-long wild and winding track that extends across the mountains and crosses the Amazon Rainforest. The second, to

More than 3,300 people have been killed since October alone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Kasai region, said a recent report by Catholic Church. The death toll includes civilians caught in the crossfire of a brutal fight between the Congolese army and an opposing militia group. In the central-southern province of Kasai, the

Over 5,000 dossiers on violence committed in the Central African Republic from 2014 until today will be submitted to the Special Criminal Court for Central Africa by the Commission “Justice and Peace” of the Catholic Church. The Commission have announced that they have filed 5,285 dossiers on crimes committed in the country to be submitted