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The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines has announced that it will dedicate 2019 as the “Year of the Youth”. The year-long celebration, which will start on the first Sunday of Advent on Dec. 2, will carry the theme “Filipino Youth in Mission: Beloved, Gifted, Empowered.” Its observance, which the bishops described as part of […]

“The little miracles and signs that have reached me through these people who are now part of me.” Neuza Francisco, a Portuguese Comboni lay missionary working in Peru tell us her experience among poor people on the outskirt of Lima. Many lives are already part of me, and many are the smiles that belong to

Justiça nos Trilhos  (Justice on the Rails)  has just received in Geneva, the new Human Rights and Business Award. Justiça nos Trilhos is an organisation – supported also by the Comboni Missionaries – working closely with local communities in remote parts of Brazil – including indigenous peoples, peasants, and Afro-descendants – to address human rights and

Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi human rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by Islamic State in Iraq, Nadia Murad, have won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize for their work and commitment to fighting sexual violence in conflicts around the world. The award, which will be presented at a ceremony in Oslo on December

The Imbali Visual Literacy project, an NGO started thirty years ago to find creative work for the talented children of the more disadvantaged black families. We visit the place. The morning sunlight streams through the windows of the old building and lights up the table around which seven black boys and girls are sitting. The

  Father Tom Uzhunnalil, the priest who was kidnapped in 2016 and held captive for 18 months by terrorists in Yemen, said that his ability to persevere “was thanks to the prayers of everyone” who interceded for him. He tells us his experience. “Prayer is the best thing that God has given us and can

Last month, Dr. Evan Atar Adaha, surgeon and medical director at a hospital in Bunj, South Sudan,  received the U.N. Refugee Agency’s Nansen Refugee Award, in recognition of his more than 20 years of providing medical care for displaced people and refugees.   He carries out up to 10 operations a day, spending hours on

Pope Francis in a new book is calling for an alliance between the young and elderly:  “Young people need the dreams of the elders so they can hope in a future. Older people and young people move forward together, and they need each other”. In his Preface, Pope Francis writes: “Only the testimony of the

In Tunis, the capital, an association is proposing the use of the bicycle instead of public means of transport, a proposal that promotes a change in the customs and culture of the population. A wind of change is blowing in the streets of Tunis: a Velorution (combining velo, meaning bicycle and revolution), an international movement

Scientifically known as Brassica oleracea, collard greens is very similar to kale plant and does not have the usual close-knit core of leaves (a “head”) like cabbage. Collards have been eaten for over 2,000 years and are enjoyed worldwide as a staple part of different cuisines in some parts of South America, southern Europe, South