South Sudan: The Lokoya – A People’s Comunity Life
The Lokoya people are situated in Eastern Equatoria in the Southern Sudan. They are estimated to be around thirty thousand people. The economic activities of the community are carried out in accordance with the season of the year. They have four seasons, dry season, wet season, mid-rainy season and harvest season. The Lokoya way of […]
Colombia: The Road To Peace Will Not Be Easy
More than 6,000 guerrilla fighters have recently traveled by foot, truck, jeep, boat and mule through the thick Colombian jungle towards Puerto Asís, a town deep in the Amazon. A UN deployment is there, ready to collect their arms and fulfill their side of the recent peace deal. After 52 years of bloodshed, they are disarming and […]
New Head of Church in Sudan and South Sudan: Prioritising Return To Peace
Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala has been named as the new President of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SCBC). Bishop Hiiboro took over from HE Gabriel Cardinal Zubeir Wako Archbishop Emeritus of Khartoum who has just retired. Bishop Eduardo has been a vocal proponent of peace and reconciliation, against a back drop of continuing violence, as […]
Pope Francis: “The Word Is A Gift. Others Are A Gift”
In the Message for Lent 2017, Francis comments on the parable of the rich man and poor Lazarus saying that it “teaches us that the other is a gift. The right relationship with people is to recognize the value of gratitude”. In the Message for Lent 2017, Pope Francis writes, “Lent is a favourable season […]
Germany and Comboni Sisters: Hope in the heart of Europe
They give hospitality and accompany and guide Nigerian, Somali and Eritrean women who were victims of human trafficking, giving them hope.This is the commitment of two Comboni Sisters in the SOLWODI project. “SOLWODI, is the acronym for Solidarity with Women in Distress” – says Sr. Margit Foster, a nun of German origin. “This organisation was […]
Nigeria: Alarming situation
Mgr. Joseph Danlami Bagobiri, Bishop of Kafanchan, in the state of Kaduna denounces the fact that “in the last three months, attacks carried out by the Fulani Herdsmen Terrorist (FHT) have increased in more than half of the territory of the southern State of Kaduna”. “In the West, this group is almost unheard of, continues […]
USA-Mexico Wall: Mexican Bishops – “We express our sorrow: an inhuman interference”
“With deep sorrow, through the means of communication, we received the information on the decree signed by the President of the United States Donald Trump, ordering the construction of the Mexico-USA wall” – the Mexican Bishops’ Conference (CEM), signed by the CEM Commission for Human Mobility, Msgr. Guillermo Ortiz Mondragón, Bishop of Cuautitlán, and by Secretary […]
The Values of a True Democracy
Democratic societies are increasingly feeling the challenge of a rising wave of civil discontent with many traditional politicians. They are turning to populist politicians who promise an anti-establishment agenda to create a disciplined crime free or immigration free society. These opportunistic politicians around the world are using the genuine anger of those left behind economically […]
USA and the Catholic Church: “Bridges Not Walls”
President Donald Trump has ordered construction of a U.S.-Mexican border wall and punishment for cities shielding illegal immigrants. Strong reaction from the Catholic Church. The new American president has signed an Executive Order for the construction of a multibillion-dollar wall to be built along the 2,000 mile U.S-Mexico border, to strip federal funding from ‘sanctuary’ […]
Comboni Missionaries Visit Refugee Camps in North Uganda
It was very striking to Fr. Jesus Aranda, the new parish priest of Kajo keji Sacred Heart parish in South Sudan, to see a continuous stream of people carrying their belongings towards the border of Uganda. He went to visit them. Why have 50,000 people of the Kajo keji District, maybe more, left their homes? […]