Uganda/Sudanese Refugees: Just A Drop In The Ocean
It consists in a microcredit project for women and grants for school fees for about fifty young people. This is the concrete contribution of the Comboni Sisters to those wishing to build a life for themselves. A Costa Rican Comboni Sister Lorena Ortiz puts us in the picture. There are signs of improvement in the […]
The Youthful Vitality of the Chinese Church
The 2018 Synod of Bishops is dealing with “Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment”. For the first time two Chinese bishops are present. In the delicate situation of the Church in China, understanding the young generation is especially important for its future. Many foreigners going to China are impressed by the youthful vitality of […]
World Mission Sunday: “Life Is A Mission”
The theme of this year: “Together with young people, let us bring the Gospel to all,” echoes the upcoming synod of bishops on Youth. “The Synod to be held in Rome this coming October, the month of the missions, offers us an opportunity to understand more fully, in the light of faith, what the Lord […]
A Vocation Story: “A God Who Makes Sense Of My Life”
Fr Phillip Andruga Kenyi from South Sudan, said that “the funny thing in all this development of my vocation to religious life was that God did not tell me in clear terms that this was my vocation.But something happens…” The big step towards my vocation was when I was invited to a Christian Youth leadership […]
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 […]