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After 40 years working in the Media, Sr. Lissy Maruthanakuzhy, decided to move for another challenge experience. She tells us her story. It was the desire to become a missionary that brought me to the Daughters of St. Paul in Mumbai, western India, more than four decades ago. There, I learned the first lessons of […]

In his Easter message, Cardinal Charles Bo of Myanmar urged his people to remove the stones of hatred, injustice and ethnic conflict that have entrapped millions in despair and hopelessness. In his message, card. Bo said “Easter is a day of Hope… This country awaits the miracle of Hope. On the day of resurrection the

Jesus undertook many journeys during his life. As an unborn child, he went from Nazareth to Bethlehem. As a child refugee, he went to Egypt. As a preacher he travelled the roads of Galilee. His seemingly final journey was to travel up Calvary carrying the heavy wooden beam of a cross. But what appeared to

Nobody knows where the man with the leather suitcase is headed to but we all know that he carries the most precious thing he still has: hope. That child is the hope and the deep yearning for peace in Syria. For over ten years Syria has been the theatre of a heinous, fratricidal war that

The religious sects which proliferate throughout Congo and Islamic extremism, among the challenges for the Church. We talk with Fr. Armand Brice Ibombo, Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Congo. “The Church in the Republic of Congo was founded 135 years ago by the French missionaries of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit who

“Notre Dame du Sahel” Radio, a powerful a tool to weave relationships between people of different ethnic backgrounds and faiths. For many communities in Burkina Faso, radio broadcasts are often the only effective way to proclaim the Gospel. In a country where oral culture is still very strong and most of the people are illiterate,

Figures released recently by the Jubilee Debt Campaign, based on IMF and World Bank databases, show that developing country debt payments increased by 60% between 2014 and 2017. They are now at the highest level since 2004. The new analysis from Jubilee Debt Campaign shows that average government external debt payments across the 126 developing

In its latest report the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), said that, globally the volume of international transfers of major weapons in 2013–17 was 10% higher than in 2008–12, a continuation of the upward trend that began in the early 2000s. The five largest exporters in 2013–17 were the United States, Russia, France, Germany

After reaching the abyss of drug addiction and rediscovering his spiritual faith, Guillermo Gomez is leading other recovering drug dependents to rehabilitation and true healing. January 26th, 2012, was the last day Guillermo “Gimo” Gomez took shabu. “I am a recovering drug addict and will remain one until I’m buried six feet under the ground.

Indigenous Africa offers examples of alternative ways to reach peace. It is the way of truth, social forgiveness, and integration. We hear a reflection from Laurenti Magesa, a Tanzanian theologian.. Peace does not mean the absence of conflict. Except in fables, recorded history offers no credible examples of societies that led perpetual, totally idyllic, tension-free