Boko Haram: Nigerian Child Bombings Quadruple This Year
According to the latest UNICEF report, Boko Haram militants in north-east Nigeria have sent out four times as many child suicide bombers so far this year, as they used the whole of 2016. Eighty-three children have been used as bombers since the 1st of January 2017, UNICEF has reported. Of those, 55 were girls, mostly […]
Africa: No Class To Attend
While students around the world go back to school, millions of children that fled conflict and drought in East Africa have no classes to attend. “We decided to flee Burundi because there was war. I miss the school where I was studying in Burundi. I had enough materials, shoes and clothes, pens, eraser and a […]
The Art of Traditional Chinese Painting
The origins of traditional Chinese painting reach far back into China’s distant history. Generally speaking, works dating from before the T’ang dynasty, (618-907 A.D.), are mainly line drawings of people engaged in various activities. This was the “golden age” of human figure drawing. By the mid-T’ang dynasty, landscape and flower-and-bird paintings began their rise to […]
Philippines: Making The Word Of God Viral
An Argentine priest promotes the Gospel through Facebook, early in the morning, as a spiritual food for the day. The missionary runs a community-based rehabilitation programme for drug addicts in an urban parish in Manila. Every morning, Fr. Luciano Felloni sits in front of a camera and records for less than three minutes about what […]
Colombia: Pope Francis and Week For Peace
The 2017 edition of the “Week for Peace”, it is held in Colombia, from the 3rd to 10th September, which coincides this year with two important events for the country – the beginning of consolidating the peace process after the agreements of the 24th November 2016, and the pastoral visit of Pope Francis, from 6th […]
Central Africa Republic: UN Troops Open Fire Against Civilians
In Bangassou, a city in the south east of the Central African Republic, the people are demanding the withdrawal of the Moroccan troops of the UN Peacekeeping Mission. “The request is legitimate and confirms the request forwarded by Mons. Aguirre, the Catholic Bishop of Bangassou” says Imam Oumar Kobine Layama, leader of the platform of […]
South Sudan: Catholic Cathedral Becomes Refuge For Displaced People
The Catholic cathedral in Wau, South Sudan’s second largest city, is now a sanctuary for more than 10,000 people who have fled the country’s vicious civil war, but with insecurity rife and markets collapsed, help is scarce and food is in short supply. Saint Mary’s Cathedral, a solid red-brick building, soars above the many crowded […]
Kenya – Turkana: “The Rite Of Passage”
The Turkana are a Nilotic people native to the Turkana District in northwest Kenya. Turkana number 856 thousand, or 2.5%, of the Kenyan population, making the Turkana the third largest Nilotic ethnic group in Kenya. We look at the rite of initiation for the boys. A boy cannot become an adult, until he undergoes the […]
Kenya & Tanzania: The Importance Of The Environment Among The Maasai
The Maasai live in the arid and semi-arid lands of Kenya and Tanzania. The environment is very important to the community, especially in ceremonies. Hills are considered to be important in ceremonies such as rain sacrifices. The Maasai believe that God lives in hills and, therefore, hills are very important because of peace. When seeking […]
Summer Camp 2017: On The Way
Taking “On The Way” from the Gospel story of the disciples on their way to Emmaus as their theme, a group of young people from Portugal, Italy, Poland and England took part in the first edition of the Summer Camp organised by the Comboni Missionaries of the London Province. The young people were offered hospitality […]
