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The children of Khan Sheikhoun were the first to suffer as the suspected nerve gas sarin, a deadly, fast-killing agent, caused the children to suffocate. As they tried to breath with damaged lungs, they started to foam at the mouth. Twenty died horrible deaths at the last count, and there may still be more. By […]

“The Crucified One invites us, as people of Sudan and South Sudan, to bear the sufferings of one another, to keep patient vigil together in the darkness, to listen even in death for life’s heartbeat… Our mission is not to roll the rock over the grave but, together with the One who goes before us,

Acholi is a Luo Nilotic ethnic group from Northern Uganda, with a population of approximately 1.2 million in the country. Among the Acholi people, the birth of a child is regarded as a miraculous work of the supreme God, Nyarubanga. The spirits of the dead ancestors known in Acholi as Abila, also play an important

First woman in Nigeria to graduate in mechanical engineering and founder of the ‘Lady Initiative’, which supports girls into the mechanic profession, providing both work and dignity. She welcomes us in her large mechanic’s workshop on the outskirts of Lagos. She is wearing the blue overalls of a mechanic. She has just finished taking apart

Kathmandu is the capital and largest municipality of Nepal. There are a lot informal markets in the streets, where you can find everything you need. One of the main attractions is the medicine man who promises to cure everything… almost. Not far from the railway station we met Shakya M. Aakar. He was talking to

For some years now, a group of Comboni Missionaries has been present among the Ashaninka and Nomatsiguengas indigenous peoples in the Central Selva of Peru. In the area, there are also powerful Drug traffickers and terrorists. San Martin de Pangoa is a district of the province of Satipo, located in the Central Selva of Peru.

On 1st June this year, the Comboni Missionaries celebrate 150 years of their foundation. Not long before, on the 16th April, Comboni Missionary Fr David Glenday celebrates forty years of priesthood. Here, drawing out the missionary meaning of gratitude, he shares something of what these two significant milestones mean to him personally. From 1991 to

Street children in Kenya are often a nuisance to pedestrians and shopkeepers. They are also disliked by local administrators because they are a sore sight in touristic areas. They should not be there, full stop. That’s why, once and again, local politicians state their will to clean up the scene. Various officers of Nakuru County

The residence of the Comboni missionaries and a workshop used as a vocational training centre have been looted last week in Kajo-Keji, South Sudan. The workshop had been set up to train people to develop skills and learn different professions such as carpentry, ironmonger mechanic, masonry, weaving and bakery. It also produced good quality furniture

On Saturday 25th March, the diocesan phase of the cause of beatification of the Servant of God Father Ezekiel Ramin, a Comboni missionary killed in Brazil on 24th July 1985, concluded. “After more than thirty years the memory of Father Ezekiel is still very much alive, especially among indigenous peoples and farmers”. The official act