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Churches February 2025

The Jubilee Door. A time for re-awakening and sharing.

The jubilee as a time of emancipation and restoration requires including those who need acceptance: not limiting ourselves to the select few who appear most worthy of God’s favour. The theme that highlights the jubilee inaugurated by Pope Francis on December 24, “Pilgrims of Hope,” intends to highlight, according to the document that preceded the…

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United States. ‘Gun Buyback’ Campaign. No to the culture of violence.

From pressure on manufacturing companies to parish gun buybacks, parts of the American Catholic world is mobilizing against a culture of violence that causes thousands of victims every year. We talk about it with Father Mike Murphy, one of the creators of the “Gun buyback” campaign. A line of cars has been lining up since…

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The Philippines. Inspiring Hope through Art.

Brother Christopher Villanueva, a member of the Order of Friars Minor (OFM), uses his creativity in painting to restore and strengthen hope among victims of conflict and natural disasters. His paintings encourage people to grow in faith. He started drawing with pencils, ballpoint pens and crayons when he was in primary school. He drew on…

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Cameroon. Hospital reference-point.

Amid conflict in Ambazonia, in the English-speaking part of Cameroon, the Servants of Mary Ministers of the Sick have kept the Notre Dame de la Santé hospital open for ten years. With a large pool of local workers and volunteer doctors, they are strengthening the region’s health system. We visited the Hospital. In the mountainous…

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Advocacy

Maria Ressa. Information that gives hope.

“We want to create a federation of international journalistic organisations that collaborate in this effort, starting from the global South,” says Filipino journalist and 2022…

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Baobab

The Leopard, the Dog and the Tortoise.

Once upon a time, there was a leopard. He had a huge walnut tree that was full of nuts. Stingy as he was, however, he forbade…

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Youth & Mission

Mission. In the school of life and humanity.

Three young Comboni missionaries from three continents share their vocation stories and missionary experiences. Fr Victor Cunanan Parungao from the Philippines reflects on 15 years of…

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