Bolivia. The Festival of the Chacobo Community
The Chacobos are a small indigenous people living on the banks of the Benicito river in the northeast of Bolivia. They organise festivals at the time of cassava and corn harvest. One of the members of the community is given the task to organise the festival, he is supposed to personally invite each man of […]
The Sahel – A region outside state control
On the old trade routes through the Sahara, where caravans used to trade in salt and other coveted goods, lively human, arms and drug trades by criminal gangs are flourishing today. The Sahel countries are the former French colonies of Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad. They are among the poorest countries in the […]
WYD 2023. Young Ukrainians: The Cry of Pain
More than one and a half million young people, the highest number ever, flew into Lisbon and filled its narrow and cobbled streets with its numerous climbs, on the occasion of the World Youth Day (WYD) 2023. There was an unexpected encounter, the cry of pain of thousands of young Ukrainians. But evil will never […]
Advocacy & People. Yvette Mushigo, Breaking the Silence
The Congolese activist and jurist Yvette Mushigo is the coordinator of the Synergie des Femmes pour la Paix et la Réconciliation (SPR), a network of associations operating in Bukavu (DRC) for women to know and claim their rights. “There are many types of violence that are perpetrated against women. From discrimination in employment and sexual […]
Sierra Leone. Moringa Protein and Resistant Coffee
There is no shortage of water, but floods are increasingly frequent. To enable families to have enough food and earn their living, a group of Salesians have promoted a project for the cultivation and transformation of moringa. From moringa to Coffea Stenophylla, from horizontally grown tomatoes to new generation tea, in Sierra Leone, where climate […]
Cambodia: Two Sisters and a Church Reborn
In Cambodia, Songvat and Tharin, today Sister Marie and Sister Teresa, are the first women to enter the religious life since the bloody regime of the Khmer Rouge. A conversion that went hand in hand with the reconstruction of the country. A Church that is reborn thanks to the preaching of the Gospel in […]
Nicaragua. ‘We Shall Resist’
Repression, kidnappings, intimidation. The Catholic Church under siege. But ‘the hearts of the people resist’. We received this letter from a religious sister who writes under a pseudonym for security reasons. It is not easy to nourish hope in Nicaragua. Blow after blow, it seems that the intention of President Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo […]
Mission Diary. Prayer Is Life
Maria Cecilia Sierra is a Comboni Missionary Sister from Mexico. She has worked in several countries. Now she lives in the eastern Arab world. She talks about her experiences. Everything is grace. Divine gratuitousness and beauty are values that define and guide my life and prayer. “Thank you” is the word that emanates from my […]
Bible & Mission. The end of Mission: God is all in all
“It was then that (Jesus) danced in the Holy Spirit.” (Luke 10: 21–22) The end of the mission is the missionary’s joy: he becomes God’s child. However, it is also the Son’s joy, who dances at the Father’s tune, because children are born to Him. It is the most beautiful joy: that of the Father […]
Mission Diary. “I must remove my shoes for this is holy ground”
“I am living out this service by trying to witness and share the beauty and joy of the Mission with these young women who wish to offer their lives as missionaries of the Gospel”. Sr. Salome Wangari, Kenyan, talks to us about her experience as a formator of future missionaries. Missionary life urges you to […]
