Mission as Witness
“I am a missionary for all and not only for Catholics. My being in the Mission in this part of Africa has educated my senses, my thoughts and my actions. I have passed from being a missionary by words and deeds to being a witnessing Missionary by way of life”. A Comboni Sister, Onzizuyo Betty […]
Reflection: Witnesses of the Resurrection
The Resurrection of the Lord marked a radical new beginning in the history of humankind. That special event, which is related to the first day of creation (Gen 1: 1-5), is the foundation of our faith and discipleship. “On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the […]
Ethiopia: The Monastery of Debre Damo
It is the largest and the most important. The monastery concentrates certain original characteristics that do not occur in others. In the first place, its antiquity. Founded by Aregawi, one of the ‘Nine Saints’, at the beginning of the 6th century, it is at least as old as those founded by his fellow monks, such […]
Brazil: Prisons without walls
In Brazil, where prisons are places of violence and the rate of re-offending is as high as 80%, there are also penitentiaries where the detainees succeed in changing. The secret? Trust, because nobody is beyond redemption. An experience born of a Christian context. Cleubert was born into a poor and afflicted family, of an alcoholic […]
South Sudan: A great heart with great faith
A poor woman takes a foreign mother into her house and looks after her sick daughter. She goes to the church and asks the missionary to pray that the child gets well. In the eyes of many, Nyamuone is a woman of little account. Her husband abandoned her because, in his opinion, she was unable […]
Journey in to Monasticism and Monasteries in Ethiopia
If it is true that the Christian Europe of the Middle Ages was shaped by monasticism, more so it can be said of the Ethiopian Christianity. Ethiopia converted to Christianity around the year 330 through the work of two Syrian young brothers who were taken prisoners in the Red Sea and brought to the court […]
South Sudan: “We are on the way”
Father Jean Paolo Pezzi, director of Justice and Peace office of the Comboni Missionaries based in the United States has just visited the country. I sent this report. The Sudan Airlines’ 737 rolls on the Wau’s runway. I look down while the land widens towards the horizon, painting mangos and acacias trees on the grey […]
Destruction and death left by tropical cyclone Idai in southern Africa
After more than three weeks since cyclone Idai hit southern Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi still live in extreme emergency conditions. According to Caristas in Mozambique, the official number of deaths in Mozambique alone has risen to 520. The first reception centres for the homeless has given hospitality to 110 thousand people. It is estimated […]
Pope Francis: “Make your youth worthwhile”
Published April 2, Christus vivit (Christ lives) is Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on the Synod of Bishops on young people, faith, and vocational discernment, which took place Oct. 3-28, 2018. In the apostolic exhortation, Francis explained that “becoming an adult does not mean you have to abandon what is best about this stage of your […]
Franciscan friar from Kenya wins Global Teacher Prize
Peter Tabichi, a member of the Franciscan religious order, has just won the 2019 Global Teacher Prize. Brother Peter, a science teacher from Kenya, has been praised for his achievements in a deprived school with crowded classes and few textbooks. He has been recognises for the “exceptional” teacher’s commitment to pupils in a remote part […]
