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Churches January 2025

Vietnam. Music. “Sounds of Brotherhood”.

Thanks to a World Youth Orchestra project, a group of orphaned or abandoned children welcomed by the Missionaries of Charity had the opportunity to take part in music and singing workshops. Discovering talents and potential. With its ultra-modern skyscrapers, its wide and very busy streets, but above all its endless suburbs, Ho Chi Minh City…

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Mission. Giving hope despite everything.

Three Comboni Missionaries are sharing their experience with displaced people, young drug addicts and Christian communities. Mozambique. Sister María del Amor Puche talks about the difficulties faced by people caught between guerrilla groups and refugee camps. Insecurity and fear. Commitment to women. Small microcredit projects. I live in Balama, in the Diocese of Pemba, in…

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Angola. On the side of the poorest and marginalised.

The Vincentian Family in Lobito runs several projects and initiatives in the fields of education, health, training and charity, which give life to thousands of people in the most marginalised areas of this coastal city in Angola. We went to visit them. We are in Kassai, one of the poorest neighbourhoods of Lobito, in the…

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The Philippines. Santo Niño Devotion. The Filipino Faith.

The image of the Santo Niño is a symbol of Filipino devotion, rooted in the traditions and history of Catholicism in the Philippines. This year, it will be celebrated on 19 January. The origin of the Santo Niño devotion dates back to 1565, 44 years after the Christian faith was brought to the Philippine archipelago…

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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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