Nueva Loja is located in the centre of Sucumbíos, in the Amazon forest and is one of the most important cities in the north – east of Ecuador. Its importance derives from the oil-drilling industry. For twenty five years, Radio Continue reading →

Comboni Missionary Sister Rania Samir from Aswan, Egypt, always wanted to be a sister. Or a missionary. Or maybe a teacher. We caught up with her at her new assignment in the Central African Republic to ask about her vocation. Continue reading →

Father Germano Serra a comboni missionary from Portugal. He has spent  more than 25 years in Karamoja in the northeast  of  Uganda. We talked with him. 

In his early childhood, Fr. Germano always dreamt of becoming a missionary working in Continue reading →

While visiting the small hermitage of St Damiano, in Assisi (Italy) I heard that the Crucifix spoke to St Francis there and told him: “Build My house”. Those words resounded also inside my heart as I was a student in Continue reading →

For 35 years now, Grégoire Ahongbonon has been helping African mental patients, providing them with treatment care and work. In the final analysis: ‘They are no different from ourselves’. 

Grégoire Ahongbonon, 65, originally from Benin, is no psychiatrist. He does Continue reading →