Comboni Missionaries Ireland

The town of Wittenberg in Germany is at the heart of the Evangelical Church’s celebration of the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation. The official calendar of the German Evangelical Church (EKD) designates 31st October 1517 as the symbolic start of the Lutheran Reformation, when Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses rejecting the Catholic practice of […]

The Holy Father stressed this during his recent daily morning Mass at Casa Santa Marta, as he discussed the characteristics of men and women who choose to serve the Church as missionaries. The Pontiff drew his inspiration from the day’s reading where Paul takes his leave from the community at Miletus and talks of being

Following the Government’s announcement in Kinshasa that it does not have sufficient means to finance the electoral process, the Peace Network for Congo said in a statement: “The Democratic Republic of Congo is likely to become the only country in the world where all institutions will not have a mandate, therefore, illegal and illegitimate”. The statement

From 11-13 November 2016, several thousand people who used to be, or still are, homeless will travel to Rome from all over Europe – to mark the Jubilee of Mercy, one week before the Holy Year draws to an end. The organisers of the pilgrimage have said in a statement: “This pilgrimage and encounter with

A group of Comboni Missionaries living in one of the slums on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, told us what defines their mission. We live in Korogocho, one of the 200 slums of Nairobi. These slums are home to about 60% of Nairobi’s population. Yet they occupy only 5% of the residential land. Every day

Along the routes leading to Europe and the Middle East, the paths of those who risk their lives fleeing their homelands cross with those of missionaries offering assistance. One priest in Djibouti said: “They are God’s children, not economic variables”. “Nobody likes leaving their family, home, culture or environment to go to a foreign land

A journey to Jordan’s poorest province reveals a hospital, run by the Comboni Missionary Sisters, in which Christians and Muslims work side by side. Karak is a town in the Jordan’s poorest province, 100 miles south of Amman, is home to 60,000 people. The town, where Christians make up 3% of the population, is also home

Forty Comboni Missionaries and Comboni Sisters stationed in the provinces of Europe recently took part in a symposium on the topic of “Mission and Migration”. The following is the statement of the Comboni Family signed by the participants of the symposium. “At the conclusion of the Symposium of Limone on Lake Garda 2016 (March 29-April

The conflict in South Sudan, rooted in political in-fighting and motivated by the twin vices of greed and self-interest, began on 15 December 2013. It spread rapidly across the country and soon evolved into a brutal civil war with millions of people displaced, tens of thousands killed, entire villages torched, public and private properties looted