Vocation Story: Brother Gédéon – “My life for them”
For eleven years, he has lived and worked among young people, providing them with technical training and human maturity. Brother Gédéon Ngunza Mboma, talks about his commitment as a teacher at Comboni Technical College in Malawi. I was born in October 1979, in Mutoy, Kikwit Diocese, Bandundu Province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. My […]
Missionary Journey: Sr Tommy – Under the tree
For fifty-seven years, she has been in Eritrea. Now she is back home. “I have two nations in my heart, two peoples to love and pray” It feels unreal to be back in my home country and not to be counting the weeks till I return ‘home’ to my mission country. The heartstrings tug quite […]
The Youth Corner: The Search for a Fulfilling Life
Vocational discernment is a challenging search that will eventually lead us to the fullness of our vocation and to a fulfilling and happy life. The search to live the fullness of our vocation always implies a time of discernment. This discernment, contrary to what we would often desire, cannot be done alone. It is not […]
Oral Literature: How Night Came
Years and years ago at the very beginning of time, when the world had just been made, there was no night. It was day all the time. No one had ever heard of sunrise or sunset, starlight or moonbeams. There were no night birds, nor night beasts, nor night flowers. There were no lengthening shadows, […]
UN Member States must not walk away from treaty on business and human rights
As the power of corporations has grown, so should their responsibility towards human rights and our planet. Yet the reality is that around the world, harms to people’s rights through business activities continue to take place with impunity. In 2014 the UN Human Rights Council started a process to establish a treaty to regulate transnational corporations […]
Climate Change: Planting Bamboos
In the Philippines, the missionaries of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) are committing to plant 100,000 seedlings of Bamboo by 2022. With an ambitious goal for planting 1 billion bamboos by 2030, collaborating with the local churches of parishes and dioceses in the Philippines. But why Bamboo? The first reason is climate change. […]
Morocco: Tazert: an oasis of welcome and dialogue
Four African Sisters have restored life to a monastery founded in 1931 by a French Franciscan in the Berber village of Tazert. “Our doors are open to all”. We are in Tazert, a Berber village of 3,500 inhabitants sixty kilometres from Marrakech. “This is an oasis of peace for anyone who comes to visit,” says […]
The Youth Corner: Sign of Resurrection
Vocation is a path of discernment in which each person seeks to achieve life in abundance for himself and to be a sign of resurrection for humanity. We always think of vocation as something that gradually becomes a great palace where we want to live in throughout our lives. While it is true that this […]
Herbs & Plants: Strawberries – The enormous health benefits
Botanically, the strawberry belongs to the Rosaceae plant family and the Fragaria ananassa species. It is the world’s most popular berry and is widely appreciated for its characteristic aroma, bright red colour, juicy texture and sweetness. Research provides substantial evidence to classify strawberries as a functional food with several preventive and therapeutic health benefits. Strawberries […]
Bolivia: May Easter cause peace to Flower
In Tarija in Bolivia, the resurrection of Christ is lived as a movement of transformation in which all of creation participates. The communities in San Lorenzo, Easter is a riot of flowers, colours and music. At a time like this when peace is wounded, I think back to the symbols of peace and the encounter […]
