Uganda: A School Under Canvas
Refugee teachers create a school for young people in South Sudan. The life of refugees is hard. When they arrived in Moyo (Uganda), in the South Sudanese of Kajukeji, they were many refugees. They were thirsty and it was hot. Then, it rained and the fields flooded. Many of their belongings were dragged away by […]
South Sudan: Street Children In Juba – They Want To Live
Seventeen abandoned children have been rescued from wandering around the streets and started ‘the trip of their lives’. They are part of a long-awaited educational project, which hopefully will take them, and many others like them, into a different future. Juba, the capital of the South Sudan, lays on the left bank of the White […]
Plastics Pose Biggest Threat To Oceans
Oceans choking on millions of plastic water bottles, cups, straws and single use plastic bags. Oceans are choking on plastic junk—millions of tonnes of water bottles, soda bottles, drinking straws and single use plastic bags. Worse still, what we see floating on the surface accounts for only 5% of all the plastic litter that has […]
Vocation Story: “Lesa Waluse”
If I were to describe my vocation journey to priesthood in two words, I would say “Lesa Waluse”, God is merciful’, said Father Ben Makungu Chola, from Zambia. Here ishis story. From the point of view of Christian faith, my childhood was as smooth as silk. I was baptised, I heard my parents and grandparents […]
Letter To Pope Francis From African Youth
A group of young people living in Nairobi who regularly meet at Shalom House have written a letter to Pope Francis on the occasion of the Synod to be held in Rome next October, during which hundreds of bishops will discuss on the theme “Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment”. The letter has been […]
Uganda/Teso: Ajon – The Beginning & The End Of Every Celebration
The Teso (or Iteso, people of Teso) are an ethnic group in eastern Uganda and western Kenya. Teso refers to the traditional homeland of the Iteso, and Ateso is their language. The drinking and sharing of Ajon. In the land of the Iteso, one cannot claim to be a clansman without testing Ajon, a local […]
Vocation Story: “If The Seed Falls…”
He dreams of becoming a botanist. He loves reading short novels. One day, he lays his hands on a booklet titled “If the seed falls…” and buys it. He feels fooled. Yet, he reads it all the same and his life changes radically. Fr. Brighton Multiply Zimba from Zambia, tell us about his story. Since […]
Algeria: A Church In The Desert
The number of Christians in Algeria is not high, however, they are generally well accepted by the Algerian society. The experience of a White Missionary who has spent fifty years of his life in this country. Algeria covers an area of more than 2,400,000 km2 and has a population of approximately 40 million inhabitants. There […]
Kenya: Maasai – The Course Of Life
Exact rites mark the passage to an age group or becoming a member of a particular group. In this way, identity and world vision are preserved. At birth, a child receives a provisional name that is later replaced with a name chosen during a ceremony that is the same both for girls and for boys. […]
Filipino Priest Has Gone Into Hiding
A Filipino priest who has been an outspoken critic of extrajudicial killings in the country says he has gone into hiding after several sightings of what he believes to be members of a death squad searching for him. Father Amado Picardal has spent 20 years advocating against extrajudicial killings in the Philippines, and more recently […]
