Peru. Christmas. The Message of Love
In Peru, Christmas celebrations start towards the end of November. There are a variety of fairs across the country where gifts of every kind are sold, and entire cities are decorated with lights which represent the Christmas message. During the first days of December, the nativity scene is set up in homes and churches. Wheat […]
Guatemala. Christmas. The richness of the Mayan culture
Christmas is celebrated in different ways around the world, with a variety of symbols deeply embedded in one’s own cultural tradition. We look at how people from Guatemala celebrate Christmas. Christmas in Guatemala begins on 8th December, the day when the feast of the Immaculate Conception is celebrated. For the entire month of December, many […]
Mexico – A Family Feast
The Mexican Christmas is a combination of Christian spirit and indigenous traits. Una fiesta with colour, dances, songs, and joy. Even though the official liturgical preparation for Christmas begins with the First Sunday of Advent, December 25th remains the centre of the liturgical and secular celebrations. In Mexico, the effects of this feast are felt […]
Advocacy & People. El Hadji Salifou Ouédraogo. The Man Who Plants Baobabs
The African baobab tree (Adansonia digitata) symbolizes thriving life in the arid landscape of the savannah, providing shelter, food, and water for humans and various species. One man has planted thousands of baobab seedlings over the past 47 years, creating a vast forest that helps his family, community, and the Earth flourish. Meet El Hadji […]
Oral Literature. The cat… with a bag
One day, a penniless farmer from an oasis went to a rich merchant in the neighbouring village to ask for a loan. The old harvest was finished, the new one was still in the field and there was nothing left in the pantry to barter. But as borrowing is a savannah custom, the farmer decided […]
Brazil. Our Floating Church
There are more than 120 communities distributed on the islands of the large Santana archipelago on the Amazon River, in Amapá. The fundamental role of community leaders. An urgent need to have permanent deacons. Two missionaries explain their pastoral activities. We are in the North of Brazil, in the diocese of Macapá. Father Raul, a […]
South Korea. Pots, rice and “the have-nots” of Seoul
Left a very poor country after the end of the Second World War, South Korea is today at the forefront on a technological, economic and social level. However, it exists in a world marked by profound contradictions in which young and old remain on the margins, as Father Vincenzo Bordo says from the capital. “Here […]
India. Child brides. A school for a fresh start
According to a recent UNICEF report, there are 640 million, 200 million in India alone, child brides. In Polur – in Andhra Pradesh – a congregation of nuns runs the “Sree Jeevan Jyothi Vocational Junior College”, a nursing school that welcomes young women who are victims of early marriage. Kavitha and Navyashree, are two Indian […]
Advocacy & People. Chima Williams. To hold transnational corporations accountable
In the aftermath of disastrous oil spills in Nigeria, environmental lawyer Chima Williams worked with two communities to hold Royal Dutch Shell accountable for the resultant widespread environmental damage. On January 29, 2021, the Court of Appeal of the Hague ruled that not only was Royal Dutch Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary responsible for the oil spills, […]
Slovakia. The simplicity of an encounter
The Little Sisters of Jesus live their contemplative and active lives in fraternity. They work among those marginalized: immigrants, precarious workers and township dwellers. They try to find beauty and greatness where only degradation and misery are imagined. Sr Anna offers her witness as a worker in a laundry in Slovakia I have been working […]
