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Two grassroots activists Makoma Lekalakala and Liz McDaid are the African winners of this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize. A long the years they have built a broad coalition to stop the South African government’s massive secret nuclear deal with Russia. South Africa currently has one nuclear power station, Koeberg, operated by the state-owned electric utility, […]

From the humblest of beginnings, Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu has built soleRebels into the planet’s fastest growing African footwear brand. She has created world class jobs, empowered her community and country while presenting a galvanized, dynamic face of African creativity to the global market. A trailblazer in every respect, Bethlehem has shifted the discourse on African

The Philippines government has ordered an Australian Catholic sister to leave the country within 30 days after the immigration bureau revoked her missionary visa for joining protest rallies, an immigration official says. The Philippines’ immigration bureau has revoked the missionary visa of Australian sister Patricia Fox over her alleged involvement in partisan political activities. “A

In the last six years, 23 priests have been killed. The Catholic bishops said “how did we lose respect for life and for the faith?” On the evening of the 20th April, Fr. Juan Miguel Contreras García, aged 33 and recently ordained a priest, was shot dead at the end the Holy Mass he had

The pastoral activity of the Church is increasingly undermined in Africa by a lack of security. From Cote D’Ivoire to Nigeria, to Congo Kinshasa, priests are assassinated by armed gangs. On the 23rd April, a Catholic priest was killed in a road robbery in Cote d’Ivoire. Father Bernardin Brou Aka Daniel was assistant parish priest

One evening, Mamadou Touré had just left the disco and was walking back home when a child came up to him and told him that he was very hungry. Mamadu could not remain indifferent, and since then, every evening, he drives around his town to help children living on the street. Every evening when the

About 69% of Europeans believe that integration measures are “a necessary investment in the long-run” and a similar proportion view integration “as a two-way process for both migrants and host societies”. These are the results from a special Eurobarometer survey on the integration of migrants in the EU published recently. Respondents generally “agree on the

“A hopeful moment and an important opportunity for evangelisation”– this is how cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Catholic Primate of England and Wales, defined the decision to re-dedicate the country to the Virgin, as “the dowry of Mary”, just as it happened in the Middle Ages. The statue of Our Lady of Walsingham, the most important

Despite, the socio-political, economic and humanitarian situation of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the young Congolese have not lost hope and continue in the struggle for democracy and for the good of the country. Meanwhile, the Catholic Bishops contest the electronic voting machines. According to Father Simon-Pierre Kakiau, Congolese missionary and theologian of the

“Intercultural praxis as a missionary challenge. Mission and interculturality” was the theme of the 12th Limone Symposium of the Comboni Family that included Comboni religious, lay Comboni Missionaries and Secular Comboni Missionaries, and took place in Limone sul Garda on April 3rd and 6th, 2018. The Symposium’s objective was a reflection over the intercultural praxis