At the beginning of October 2000 at Lacor hospital (Gulu, North Uganda) a great alarm was raised. Ajok Christine, aged 20, a student nurse, was the first one to fall sick and die. The death of a second nurse and Continue reading →
Denis Hurley was born in Cape Town in 1915 of Irish parents. Educated at St Charles College in Pietermaritzburg, he joined the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) and was ordained a priest in 1939. In 1947, he was named Continue reading →
Introduction: The text of John 9:1-41 tells us of the healing of a man born blind and about the power of Jesus and the meaning of his presence in the world. It is an invitation for us to open our Continue reading →
If we look at our daily life and encounters with the eyes of the soul, we can see unexpected marvels: the kind face of an elderly person covered by wrinkles, each wrinkle indicating smiles, worries, tears and love, like a Continue reading →
The harvest is ripe wheat. It is necessary and urgent to harvest it in time so that it may become bread. You cannot harvest it ahead of time or behind time. In the first case, it is unripe and useless; Continue reading →
The martyrs Daudi Okelo and Jildo Irwa were two young catechists from Uganda at the beginning of the 20th century. They belonged to the Acholi tribe, a subdivision of the large Lwo group whose members even today live mostly in Continue reading →
