Vocation Story: Why Not Me?
Fascinated by a priest and his style of life, I decided to be like him. Then, I met the Comboni Missionaries. Immediately I understood that that would be my life. Father Anane Joseph Nhyirana tells us his story. The desire to be a priest began to grow in me when I was in senior high […]
Middle East & North Africa: New Displacements
According to a new report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), almost 4.5 million people fled within their own countries to escape conflict and violence in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in 2017. Key findings from the Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID 2018) show that the region accounted for 38 per […]
Philippines: Feeding Street People
For the last five years, a retired engineer and his wife have been feeding poor people on the streets almost every week on Kamias Road in Quezon City. Nobody knows about it – neighbours, family members, and friends. “We do not advertise or brag about it”, Imelda said. “It is our expression of faith or […]
Archbishop Barreto: Amazon – It Is A Priority For The Church
Speaking to pilgrims and visitors gathered in St Peter’s Square on Pentecost Sunday 20th May for the recitation of the Regina Caeli prayer, the Pope announced he would create 14 new Cardinals at a Consistory on the 29th June, Solemnity of the Holy Apostles, Peter and Paul. Among them will be Archbishop Ricardo Barreto from […]
DR. Congo: A Time Bomb!
“We appeal to the Congolese people to pay particular attention to the implementation of important milestones in the electoral calendar, including the convening of the electorate on the 23rd June 2018 and the beginning of the reception and preparation of candidacies on the 24th June 2018, and to ensure respect for the peaceful nature of […]
Israel Looks To Supply More Arms To Africa
The Israeli ministry of defence has prepared a new plan to increase the export of military hardware to Africa starting this year. “Some countries in Africa have indicated that they are willing to evaluate our products” a senior source in the Israeli defence establishment said. Israel’s defence-related exports in 2017 totalled $9.2 billion, an all-time […]
Towards A Europe of hope
The crisis in Europe is a favourite subject in media commentaries, and it is true there is no shortage of difficulties. These are manifested in a widespread defiance that features in public opinions expressed about the European construction. The results of a number of political elections in member states, including some founding members, seem to […]
Reflection: Social Justice – Africa Taken For A Ride
Despite the disastrous experiences of neoliberal polices, especially in Latin American and African countries, the international institutions are still imposing these policies on the developing countries. Few lessons have been learned from the past. The fastest growing African economies are today found in Ethiopia, Ghana, Angola and Ivory Coast, taking the lead with more than […]
Uganda: Walking With The People
The diocese of Moroto, in the north of Uganda, has around 400,000 inhabitants of whom just over half are Catholics living in ten parishes and served by thirty-six priests. Since 2014, the diocese has been led by a Comboni bishop, Damiano Guzzetti. He writes as follows. The town of Moroto is becoming increasingly busy with […]
African Military Spending Was Down
According to a report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), African military spending was down by 0.5% to an estimated $42.6 billion in 2017, or 2.5% of global military spending. “This continued the downward trend from the post-Cold War peak reached in 2014, although the decrease tapered off in 2017. Despite three consecutive ears […]
