Comboni Missionaries Ireland

First woman in Nigeria to graduate in mechanical engineering and founder of the ‘Lady Initiative’, which supports girls into the mechanic profession, providing both work and dignity. She welcomes us in her large mechanic’s workshop on the outskirts of Lagos. She is wearing the blue overalls of a mechanic. She has just finished taking apart […]

Kathmandu is the capital and largest municipality of Nepal. There are a lot informal markets in the streets, where you can find everything you need. One of the main attractions is the medicine man who promises to cure everything… almost. Not far from the railway station we met Shakya M. Aakar. He was talking to

On 1st June this year, the Comboni Missionaries celebrate 150 years of their foundation. Not long before, on the 16th April, Comboni Missionary Fr David Glenday celebrates forty years of priesthood. Here, drawing out the missionary meaning of gratitude, he shares something of what these two significant milestones mean to him personally. From 1991 to

Street children in Kenya are often a nuisance to pedestrians and shopkeepers. They are also disliked by local administrators because they are a sore sight in touristic areas. They should not be there, full stop. That’s why, once and again, local politicians state their will to clean up the scene. Various officers of Nakuru County

The residence of the Comboni missionaries and a workshop used as a vocational training centre have been looted last week in Kajo-Keji, South Sudan. The workshop had been set up to train people to develop skills and learn different professions such as carpentry, ironmonger mechanic, masonry, weaving and bakery. It also produced good quality furniture

On Saturday 25th March, the diocesan phase of the cause of beatification of the Servant of God Father Ezekiel Ramin, a Comboni missionary killed in Brazil on 24th July 1985, concluded. “After more than thirty years the memory of Father Ezekiel is still very much alive, especially among indigenous peoples and farmers”. The official act

Jade was the cornerstone of the Mesoamerican people. Its economic, political and, above all, ritual importance was due not only to its beauty and material value, but to its sacred symbolism associated with water, corn and life itself. Today, many elaborate objects made of this stone are preserved testimonies of the level of artistic complexity

Nueva Loja is located in the centre of Sucumbíos, in the Amazon forest. It is one of the most important cities in the north, east of Ecuador. Its importance derives from the oil-drilling industry. For twenty-five years, Radio Sucumbíos has been the voice of the local communities in defence of both the environment and the

We are bombarded daily by the news and images of violence and mayhem. The bombing of Yemen and Aleppo, the horrific war in Iraq and Syria, conflicts in South Sudan in Africa and with the deaths and suffering of migrants and refugees fleeing violence and war. It gives us urgent reason to feel the human

From Nigeria to Canada and back to Benin. The encounter with the dignity of a poor people, the discovery of Christian communities rich in vitality and faith. Mons. François Gnonhossou, Bishop of Dassa-Zoumè says, “The mission does not consist in teaching the faith to another but travelling with the other on the path of his