Mons. Angelelli: “The Romero of Argentina”
On last 27 April, in La Rioja, Bishop Angelelli, together with two priests and a layman, was beatified: all four were killed during the time of the dictatorship because of their preferential option for the poor. A bishop must always “turn one ear to the Gospel and the other to the people”. The Argentine Enrique […]
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith condemns bombs attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka
The Archbishop of Colombo, Albert Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, condemned the deadly attacks on churches and hotels on Easter Sunday (April 21) in a series of bomb blasts that claimed at least 359 lives and leaving more than 500 people injured. At least 45 children were among the victims, according to UNICEF. It was the worst […]
The Monastery of Debre Libanos
From its very foundation, Debre Libanos grew in prestige and power until it surpassed all the other monasteries, thanks in the first place to the personality of its founder, Tekle Haimanot, but also to the permanent support of political power. It is still today at the head of the monastic life in Ethiopia. The data […]
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 […]
