
Comboni Brother Vittorio Fanti: a missionary painter
His house, in Pressano, near Trento in Italy, is like a mansion: a carved stone portal leads the visitor into a large internal courtyard. From

Oral Literature: how Giraffe acquired his Long Neck
Long, long ago, Giraffe did not have the long, elegant neck that he has now. In those days his neck was short and squat, resembling

Uganda: the art of dance
For the Karimojong, a pastoral and semi-nomadic tribe living in the north-eastern regions of Uganda, dancing is part of life. An artistic expression to be

The Sahel: “poverty nourishes jihadism”
An unstable region. “Young people abandoned to themselves find a solution to their problems in Jihadism. Jihadism feeds on injustice, poverty and misery”. The words

Reflection: the virus that took over the world
The human species thinks that it the smartest that ever evolved on this planet. We think we are smarter and more powerful than all other

Comboni Brother Pietro Laffranchi: Desiring to Empower the Workers
He was born in 1899 in a small village in the region of Brescia, Northern Italy. Feeling the Lord was calling him to the mission,