The small villages of the Tarahumara Indians in northern Mexico - where temperatures have…
01 Nov 2024
Pope Francis' “frontier vision” allows him to see reality from the periphery, not from…
01 Nov 2024
A place where you can feel at home, welcomed and listened to. An island…
01 Nov 2024
How can a monk be "missionary" if, by vocation, he is called to withdraw…
01 Nov 2024
A reflection on the Pope's latest trip to the “peripheries of the world”. After more…
01 Oct 2024
This year, World Mission Day is part of the final phase of the “Synod…
01 Oct 2024
Economic autonomy and autonomy of thought. These are the prerequisites for facing the great…
01 Oct 2024
Giuseppe Allamano, founder of the Consolata Missionaries will be canonized on October 20th. Mission…
01 Oct 2024
The encyclical Laudato Si' offers a new way of thinking about our understanding of…
01 Sep 2024
“Do we want our children and their children to ask us: ‘Why did your…
01 Sep 2024
For indigenous peoples, the earth is like a mother who offers her children the…
01 Sep 2024
Thirteen years of war. The earthquake and the consequences of the conflict in Gaza.…
01 Sep 2024
In Africa, there is no separation between the sacred and the profane. According to…
01 Aug 2024
A journey to the last Christian village in the mountains of Syria where the…
01 Aug 2024
Two young lay Comboni missionaries talk to us about their experience among people fighting…
01 Aug 2024
Among the ethnic groups of the Indian state of West Bengal, the missionaries accompany…
01 Aug 2024
To cope with increasingly recurring droughts and animal deaths, the northern ethnic group, equipped…
01 Jul 2024
Four religious people have chosen to live in a hermitage community in the southeast…
01 Jul 2024
The Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants (CEPAMI) and other civil society organizations…
01 Jul 2024
Grasping the fresh, light green shoots in her hand, she separates them from the…
01 Jul 2024
Since its foundation by the Spiritan Missionaries in 1928, the Cristo Rey Major Seminary…
01 Jun 2024
In the country's most populous city, Muslim prayer groups have adapted to a scenario…
01 Jun 2024
In the Prelacy of Labrea, in the state of Amazonas, the Laguna Negra hospital…
01 Jun 2024
The Congolese judiciary threatened to prosecute the Archbishop of Kinshasa, Cardinal Ambongo. Such a…
01 Jun 2024
The Sisters who belong to the Slaves of the Divine Heart run a school…
01 May 2024
Former Burma has become an open-air prison since the military junta took power three…
01 May 2024
Fifteen years ago, Talitha Kum was established as an International Network of Consecrated Life…
01 May 2024
Non-Christians venerate Mary in Asia. Mary stands as an interreligious bridge that belongs to…
01 May 2024
Kidnapping for ransom has long become a real industry in Nigeria. Priests and religious…
01 Apr 2024
In a historic step, the Hanoi government has invited Pope Francis to visit the…
01 Apr 2024
"It is very important to be present and accompany them, especially in this painful and…
01 Apr 2024
Sister Paësie Phillipe had been a missionary in Haiti for twenty five years when…
01 Apr 2024
This is the time necessary, according to Mireille Yoga, director of the Edimar Centre…
01 Mar 2024
The experience of the Missions Etrangères de Paris which from Europe paved the way…
01 Mar 2024
The ancient capital of Guatemala, a baroque jewel among the mountains, is the scene…
01 Mar 2024
A journey towards Beauty is also a journey to God. Fr Raul Tabaranza, a…
01 Mar 2024
In the southern region of Chad, in Bodo, to be exact, an African fashion…
01 Feb 2024
In the northern districts of Marseille, a drug trafficking stronghold, people grow up surrounded…
01 Feb 2024
‘In My Father's House’, a centre for vulnerable children. A school for over 800…
01 Feb 2024
Jeepney drivers often hang rosaries and display religious images on their dashboards. Why is…
01 Feb 2024
The Little Sisters of Jesus live their contemplative and active lives in fraternity. They…
01 Dec 2023
According to a recent UNICEF report, there are 640 million, 200 million in India…
01 Dec 2023
There are more than 120 communities distributed on the islands of the large Santana…
01 Dec 2023
“It is not too late to save the ‘Amazon of the oceans’, the appeal…
01 Nov 2023
A community of Comboni Missionary Sisters work at St. Joseph's Hospital in Bébédjia, dedicating…
01 Nov 2023
In his latest apostolic exhortation, Laudate Deum, Pope Francis has highlighted the urgency of…
01 Nov 2023
Maria Cecilia Sierra Salcido is from Mexico and has been a Comboni Missionary Sister…
01 Nov 2023
Repression, kidnappings, intimidation. The Catholic Church under siege. But ‘the hearts of the people…
01 Oct 2023
In Cambodia, Songvat and Tharin, today Sister Marie and Sister Teresa, are the first…
01 Oct 2023
There is no shortage of water, but floods are increasingly frequent. To enable families…
01 Oct 2023
Last August, Southern African bishops filed a class-action suit against a mining company that…
01 Oct 2023
The synod on synodality focuses on the call for interior renewal and constant conversion.…
01 Sep 2023
Sister Lourdes García, a Mexican Comboni missionary, works in the Bedouin communities of Jahalin,…
01 Sep 2023
For over a hundred years, the Comboni Missionaries have been working in north-eastern Uganda.…
01 Sep 2023
Hrusso Aka, an indigenous language in northern India, was on the verge of extinction.…
01 Sep 2023
The challenge of the Pentecostal churches. Young people who only want to leave. The…
01 Aug 2023
Hakuna is setting the lives of many young people ablaze, inside and outside the…
01 Aug 2023
What the Catholic Church is doing and what role it is playing in this…
01 Aug 2023
The history of the Armenian Catholic Church is made up of persecution but also…
01 Aug 2023
It is one of the best-known walks in the world. It is visited by…
01 Jul 2023
The project has taken its first steps and has a triple objective: to enhance…
01 Jul 2023
This month of July, Monsignor Paolo Martinelli celebrates one year since the beginning of…
01 Jul 2023
Being both a priest and a journalist represents the two most dangerous missions ever.…
01 Jul 2023
On the outskirts of the capital of the state of Amazonas, the Casa Mamãe…
01 Jun 2023
At St Michael’s Hospital in Donomanga, Chad, a team of health professionals, co-ordinated by…
01 Jun 2023
The many challenges of Monsignor Pablo Virgilio David, bishop of the diocese of Kalookan,…
01 Jun 2023
Share your faith. Approach the other without fear. Look to the future with hope.…
01 May 2023
Today, the atomic threat is less feared, but the risk of an increasingly widespread…
01 May 2023
The upcoming World Synod of Bishops and its preparations in synodal processes around the…
01 May 2023
He received the appointment as auxiliary bishop with "fear and trembling". But with a…
01 May 2023
An outgoing church that experiences the presence of the Holy Spirit. The synodal journey…
01 Apr 2023
This April, Rwanda commemorates the 29th anniversary of the genocide. The bitter fruit of…
01 Apr 2023
A visit to Maryam al-Adhra monastery; a place of dialogue and peace in Iraqi…
01 Apr 2023
Sister Nancy Thomas recounts her experience at Nirmala Bhavan, an institution for blind girls…
01 Apr 2023
The father of the Chinese Church has been declared venerable by Pope Francis. The…
01 Mar 2023
In northern Kenya, in the Samburu region, many young girls are married off to…
01 Mar 2023
“Africa: it is not a mine to be exploited or a land to be…
01 Mar 2023
To politicians: “It is time to move from words to deeds. It's time to…
01 Mar 2023
If ‘dialogue’ means ‘meeting through the word’ (‘dia-logos’), dialogue is necessary to walk together,…
01 Feb 2023
Drug trafficking, corruption, the danger of fraud in the next presidential elections. The Church's…
01 Feb 2023
The Comboni magazine ‘Esquila Misional’ celebrates 70 years of life. At the service of…
01 Feb 2023
A Spanish Claretian, for 35 years a missionary in Latin America, Fr. Maximino Cerezo…
01 Feb 2023
Persecuted and driven from their homeland, Sinjar, in Iraqi Kurdistan, Yazidis cling to their…
01 Jan 2023
The parish of St Daniel Comboni is located in the eastern part of Mamelodi,…
01 Jan 2023
It is a nation with a Protestant majority, with a strong presence of independent…
01 Jan 2023
In his long-serving ministry, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has unreservedly committed himself to the protection…
01 Jan 2023
Every year thousands of people go to pay homage to Saint Lazarus in El…
01 Dec 2022
In Bolivia, it is the Chuntunqui musical rhythm that leads the celebration of Christmas…
01 Dec 2022
Amina Wadud, one of the most important theologians of Islam, criticizes the Islamic patriarchate,…
01 Dec 2022
“It is not enough to say that the Church is missionary. It is necessary…
01 Dec 2022
The Coptic Church of Egypt and the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia are joining hands…
01 Nov 2022
Anti-apartheid activist and internationally renowned theologian, Father Albert Nolan, died in the early hours…
01 Nov 2022
On 20 November 2022, Comboni Father Joseph Ambrosoli will be beatified in Kalongo in…
01 Nov 2022
Anti-apartheid activist and internationally renowned theologian, Father Albert Nolan, died in the early hours…
01 Nov 2022
We have asked mons. John Baptist Odama, Archbishop of Gulu in Uganda the meaning…
01 Nov 2022
During the night, an armed group attacks the mission of Chipene, a small village on the…
01 Oct 2022, Churches October 2022
This year World Mission Day will be celebrated on Sunday, on 23 October, focused on the…
01 Oct 2022, Churches October 2022
The diocese of Ciudad Guzmán in the Mexican state of Jalisco has recently celebrated 50 years…
01 Oct 2022, Churches October 2022
The renowned African theologian Prof. Fr. Laurenti Magesa died on 11 August, in Dar es Salaam,…
01 Oct 2022, Churches October 2022
Carajàs is considered the largest open cast iron mine in the world, in the heart of…
01 Sep 2022, Churches September 2022
From the diocese of Pando in the Bolivian Amazon region, Monsignor Eugenio Coter explains the horizons…
01 Sep 2022, Churches September 2022
Death, kidnapping, extortion, and intimidation have become a daily reality for many priests and religious, particularly…
01 Sep 2022, Churches September 2022
Designing the 'Common House'. Overall pastoral care. The Synod: 'Live the experience of the pilgrims of…
01 Sep 2022, Churches September 2022
A large number of initiatives have been started in the parish of Kariobangi in the outskirts…
01 Aug 2022, Churches August 2022
After last year's postponement due to Covid-19, the XI World Assembly of the WCC (World Council…
01 Aug 2022, Churches August 2022
In the Central Latin-American tradition, devotion is strong to Our Lady with the child Jesus in…
01 Aug 2022, Churches August 2022
‘Listening’ means taking on board the new geometry of the Church: circular, horizontal, ‘multifaceted’, decentralised, itinerant,…
01 Aug 2022, Churches August 2022
The ‘Good Living’ is an integral way of perceiving and living life: everything is interconnected, and…
01 Jul 2022, Churches July 2022
The Telema Mental Health Centre in Kinshasa is a place where the mentally ill are welcomed…
01 Jul 2022, Churches July 2022
Four African Sisters have restored life to a monastery founded in 1931 by a French Franciscan…
01 Jul 2022, Churches July 2022
The Mediterranean as a meeting place. Brotherhood as a sign of life. The canonization of Charles…
01 Jul 2022, Churches July 2022
Schools, female entrepreneurship, microcredit. These are some of the initiatives of the Oblates of Mary in…
01 Jun 2022, Churches June 2022
Crowded cells, a corrupt judicial system, a health crisis aggravated by the Coronavirus. A Comboni nun…
01 Jun 2022, Churches June 2022
The Nyota Centre in Bukavu gives hope to many young girls who have suffered oppression and…
01 Jun 2022, Churches June 2022
The pilgrimages of the various Andean communities are a combination of ancestral traditions and Christian spirituality. The…
01 Jun 2022, Churches June 2022
The invasion of Ukraine by Russia is also having serious consequences on the ecclesial level in…
01 May 2022, Churches May 2022
Many shrines and pilgrimage sites in honour of the Virgin Mary have sprung up throughout the…
01 May 2022, Churches May 2022
‘Labour Day’, is celebrated on the first of May along with the religious feast of ‘Saint…
01 May 2022, Churches May 2022
In theory, there has always been ‘harmony’, that is, close collaboration between church and state in…
01 May 2022, Churches May 2022
In Tumaco, Colombia, a decade ago, the Afro Youth Centre was established to enable young people…
01 Apr 2022, Churches April 2022
Since 1935, at Karak, in the poorest province of the country, the Comboni Sisters have been…
01 Apr 2022, Churches April 2022
There are over one hundred priests serving on the African continent who have left the Patriarchate…
01 Apr 2022, Churches April 2022
The Comboni Missionary Sisters celebrate the 150th year since their foundation. A year to recall the…
01 Apr 2022, Churches April 2022
Pope Francis transforms the Synod of Bishops from an ‘event’ to a ‘process’, with the People…
01 Mar 2022, Churches March 2022
The Al Mowafaqa Ecumenical Institute of Theology in Rabat, created at the initiative of the only…
01 Mar 2022, Churches March 2022
Since the 2011 Arab uprisings, Christians in Egypt have lived on a knife edge as they…
01 Mar 2022, Churches March 2022
In the face of epochal transformations, the missionary service is called to renew itself. A Comboni…
01 Mar 2022, Churches March 2022
The situation of Christians in Egypt is that of a varied minority. They do not always…
01 Feb 2022, Churches February 2022
There are more than two hundred radio, from Angola to Zambia reaching millions of people. They…
01 Feb 2022, Churches February 2022
Christians and Muslims work together to prevent Islamic radicalism from taking hold in the country. We…
01 Feb 2022, Churches February 2022
Symbol of non-violent resistance to apartheid and the creation of a new nation, Tutu (1931-2021, Nobel…
01 Feb 2022, Churches February 2022
To be a people and to make theology with the people. Living the experience of God…
01 Jan 2022, Churches January 2022
Twenty-five years have passed since a small group of Comboni missionaries arrived in Macao to start…
01 Jan 2022, Churches January 2022
Water is sacred in Andean culture. It is both life and a human right; they are increasingly…
01 Jan 2022, Churches January 2022
Tigray, a region of Ethiopia, guards a series of interesting churches, some of which are very…
01 Jan 2022, Churches January 2022
They toil in dark and poorly secured tunnels - always looking for the one good mine…
01 Dec 2021, Churches December 2021
The life of the Filipino villages and parishes is built around the “Fiesta”, a yearly celebration…
01 Dec 2021, Churches December 2021
The daily life of a Mexican priest, threatened with death and target of an organized smear…
01 Dec 2021, Churches December 2021
Some Franciscan Sisters have succeeded in combining tradition and innovation. The ‘Assisi Garments’ project is not…
01 Dec 2021, Churches December 2021
After leading for twenty-six years the Apostolic Vicariate of Esmeraldas, on the north-western coast of Ecuador,…
01 Nov 2021, Churches November 2021
A young man is killed. The family members arrange the vendetta. The blood of the culture…
01 Nov 2021, Churches November 2021
The Coronavirus pandemic has hit Brazil's indigenous people even harder than the rest of the population.…
01 Nov 2021, Churches November 2021
Pope Francis has approved a decree on the heroic virtues of the Little Sister Magdeleine of…
01 Nov 2021, Churches November 2021
Sixty Comboni Missionaries have died due to the Coronavirus with around 350 infected. Many of them…
01 Oct 2021, Churches October 2021
The religious institutes have created a support network for the many migrants coming to the city…
01 Oct 2021, Churches October 2021
An extremely polarised country where belonging to a family or clan is much more important than…
01 Oct 2021, Churches October 2021
A battle between the supporters of President Tshisekedi and the two main churches of the Congo…
01 Oct 2021, Churches October 2021
The Diocesan Delegation for Tangier Migrants is a church organisation that receives migrants in the north…
01 Sep 2021, Churches September 2021
Every two hours a woman disappears due to gender violence and human trafficking. Sister Benjamine Kimala…
01 Sep 2021, Churches September 2021
It may be a small and insignificant place but Tumaco, in the south west of the…
01 Sep 2021, Churches September 2021
A worldwide network of consecrated life determined to put an end to the trafficking of persons…
01 Sep 2021, Churches September 2021
Like Moses, Cardinal Monsengwo, who died in France 11 July last aged 81, fought for most…
01 Aug 2021, Churches August 2021
On a hill between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem stands a village that is an oasis of…
01 Aug 2021, Churches August 2021
Two Comboni missionary sisters from DR Congo share their experience. Compassion, commitment, and hope are the…
01 Aug 2021, Churches August 2021
After ten years of the declaration of independence, South Sudan continue to suffer the drama of…
01 Aug 2021, Churches August 2021
In the Bay of Manila, north of the Philippine capital, it is already possible to see…
01 Jul 2021, Churches July 2021
Just over a century after he died as a martyr, Blessed Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916), who…
01 Jul 2021, Churches July 2021
With a new Apostolic Letter Antiquum Ministerium (Ancient Ministry), Pope Francis establishes the lay ministry of…
01 Jul 2021, Churches July 2021
A country broken by years of civil war. The difficult journey towards reconstruction. The need for…
01 Jul 2021, Churches July 2021
Kuchinate is the name chosen by a group of African women seeking asylum in Israel. They…
01 Jun 2021, Churches June 2021
A total of one hundred and thirty years those three Comboni missionaries spent in Africa. Three…
01 Jun 2021, Churches June 2021
To recreate the social and interreligious fabric of a society torn by war, it is necessary…
01 Jun 2021, Churches June 2021
In Mexico City, from 21 to 28 November, the first ecclesial Assembly of Latin America and…
01 Jun 2021, Churches June 2021
Kidnappings, rapes and murders are part of daily life for many in the north of Nigeria.…
01 May 2021, Churches May 2021
The Daniel Comboni House of the Comboni Missionary Sisters is a structure that assists the social…
01 May 2021, Churches May 2021
On a hill in the city of Bukavu in the south of the DR Congo, a…
01 May 2021, Churches May 2021
For months he travels in an armoured car and an armed police escort. He did not…
01 May 2021, Churches May 2021
When asked how a farmer’s daughter who became a Catholic nun ended up as one of Brazil’s most influential refugee advocates, Sister Rosita Milesi, 79,…
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