Water Shortage Means Food Shortage
No, it’s not dwindling land areas that poses the biggest threat to food security, it’s water shortage. The challenge, according to specialists, is to get sufficient water to produce food. “Many well-informed individuals see a future of water shortages, but few have connected the dots to see that a future of water shortages will also […]
Nicaragua: The Church Under Threat
Bishops and priests threatened with death. Churches profaned. Nevertheless, the Church has become a sign of hope and strength for many. The white walls of the Divine Mercy church in Managua show the marks of bullets. Even the large image of the Merciful Jesus has been hit. For twelve hours, the parish in front of […]
Plants & People: Cowpea For Insomnia
It is an herbaceous food legume belonging to the plant family Fabaceae. It can either be short and bushy or a vine climbing supports or trailing along the ground. It shows considerable adaptation to warm climates with adequate rainfall and is cultivated across Southeast Asia, Africa, Southern United States and Latin America. The plant is […]
Middle East Battlefields
For decades the Middle East has been one of the areas of greatest tension in the world, a veritable battlefield involving the power capacities of regional actors – Israel, Egypt, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia – and of world players such as USA and Russia. An overview of the major ongoing conflicts and crises in the […]
Reflection: Transforming Pain Into Love
An original experience, proper of the human condition, loneliness affects us all in different ways. In entrusting Himself to the Father during the agony of Gethsemane, Jesus transformed pain into love, defeat into victory. The decision of the British Government to institute a Ministry for Loneliness – for the purpose of addressing this “sad reality […]
Ivory Coast: Breaking Chains
For 35 years now, Grégoire Ahongbonon has been helping African mental health patients, providing them with treatment care and work. In the final analysis, ‘They are no different from ourselves’. Grégoire Ahongbonon, 65, originally from Benin, is no psychiatrist. He does not have any health-care training. He is a mechanic by trade. But he has […]
Kenya: A Young Lady Makes Water An Entrepreneurship Success Story
Approximately 39.1% of the working population in Kenya is unemployed. The bulk of these are young graduates considering around 50, 000 students graduate annually from Kenyan public and private universities. The Ministry of Education estimates that 2.3 million youths are unemployed. The informal sector has become a big source of employment to young people.Many people […]
Erythrina Abysynica: The Anti-Helminthic Plant
It is one of the well-known popular plants which is often used in traditional medicine. This veritable multipurpose tree is also often grown to protect the soil. This medium-sized deciduous tree is widely distributed in warm regions of southern Africa and the savannah of eastern Africa. In fact, the plant is native to a number […]
Peru: Weaving By The Sea
The arts of crocheting and fishing narrate the stories of the beaches of northern Peru. Peru has always been a land of weavers since pre-Inca times. The finest varieties of cotton such as tanguis, pima and native cotton are cultivated in the north of the country. But Peru is also a land of fishermen, who […]
“Take Courage, Build my House”
Christian Carlassare, a Comboni Father tell us how he became missionary. While visiting the small hermitage of St Damiano, in Assis (Italy) I heard that the Crucifix spoke to St Francis there and told him “Build My House”. Those words resounded also inside my heart as I was a student in a technical institute for […]