South Sudanese Bishop Paride Taban Wins Prestigious Four Freedoms Award
South Sudanese Bishop, Paride Taban, will receive the Freedom of Worship Award, one of the Four Freedoms Awards presented every other year in Middelburg, the Netherlands. This year’s awards will be presented in Middelburg on the 16th May. Han Polman, Chairman of the Roosevelt Foundation, said that Bishop Taban will receive the award for his […]
Brazil: Being A Church That Goes Forth
A Church that is attentive to the situation of the people. Pastoral decisions that may help a community to grow in a ministerial and missionary dimension. We talk about these matters with Mons. Odelir José Magri, the Comboni Bishop of Chapecó in southern Brazil. Four years have passed since Pope Francis appointed him bishop of […]
Digital In 2018: Africa’s Internet Users Increase By 20%
An annual report released by global digital agencies, ‘We Are Social’ and ‘Hootsuite’, reveals that Africa has seen the fastest growth rates in internet penetration, with the number of internet users across the continent increasing by more than 20% compared to 2017. The ‘Digital in 2018’ report shows that over half of the world’s population […]
Burkina Faso: ‘The Ants Can Carry An Elephant’
The Mossi are the most numerous ethnic group in Burkina Faso with 6.2 million members making up 40% of the population. Mossi wisdom notes.. For the Mossi, wisdom consists in respecting traditional practices and customs. ‘If you go to a village and find everyone walking heads down, do the same yourself, and do not ask […]
South Sudan: Quality Education To Break The Vicious Circle Of Poverty & War
The Loyola Secondary School (Lss) in Wau, South Sudan, is a school, but also a shelter. It is a place where boys and girls can find serenity and build the future, beyond violence and war. “The quality of education is an important factor in breaking the cycle of poverty, and our hope is that the […]
Reflection: Lent – “We Meet Along The Way”
In the light of the Pope’s Message for Lent, Brother Michal Davide Semeraro, Benedictine monk, “rereads” the three Lenten practices – prayer, almsgiving and fasting. Prayer as openness to transcendence, fasting as “discipline” and almsgiving as an opportunity to understand that “in every woman and in every man is hidden a poor person who is […]
Guatemala: Bishop Ramazzini – “We Are Not The Owners Of Nature, But Its Custodians”
“Assuming responsibility for an ‘Integral Ecology’ in our lives poses challenges for us, both as individuals and as an institutional Church, and it also implies the adoption of coherent behaviours”, said Álvaro Ramazzini, Bishop of the diocese of Huehuetenango, Guatemala. He shares some of his considerations… The first challenge is making Christians aware of what […]
Philippines: Shepherding Drug Users
Sr. Nenet Daño, a Good Shepherd sister and licensed social worker, has passionately undertaken the task of helping drug users and pushers, in an attempt to protect them from imminent death, following the government’s war on drugs. Here is Sr. Nenet’s story of her mission to help the victims of the anti-drug campaign. After emerging […]
Martyrs Of Love
The decree of beatification of 19 “martyrs” killed in Algeria in the 1990s, including the seven monks of Tibhirine and the former Bishop of Oran Pierre Claverie, was signed on Friday 26th January. “Each of them was an authentic witness of Christ’s love, of dialogue, of openness to others, of friendship and fidelity to the […]
Colombia: The Art Of Weaving – The Wayuu People
An indigenous group proud of its craft tradition. They have survived through preserving their language and their strong weaving traditions. The Wayuu people live in the desert peninsula of La Guajira at the northern tip of Colombia and the territory shared with Venezuela. According to legend, and to the stories told by the women of […]
