Nigeria has one of the highest rates of human trafficking in sub-Saharan Africa. An active network of Catholic sisters is determined to change that by providing help to survivors and conducting education campaigns to prevent others from being victimized.

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Comboni Sr. Alicia Vacas Moro, a Spanish missionary was one of 14 women receiving this year’s International ‘Women of Courage award’, an annual honour by the U.S. Department of State.

Sr. Vacas, 49, a registered nurse and regional Continue reading →

Fr Stan who turned eight-four on April 26, has been lodged in the Taloja jail since his arrest on October 8, 2020. He was the last one of 16 to be arrested, in the Elgar Parishad/Bhima-Koregaon conspiracy case. That he Continue reading →

He is a Comboni missionary from the Central African Republic (CAR). He currently studies at St Joseph Theological Institute at Cedara, Pietermaritzburg (PMB – South Africa). He shares with us his experience. 

I was born on 30 July 1991 in Continue reading →

For months he travels in an armoured car and an armed police escort. He did not ask for protection but the local government, was forced to provide it due to international pressure.  “I am not afraid and I am Continue reading →

After living away from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for ten years, Brother Lwanga Kakule Silusawa  was sent back to his  country.  He had just completed a career in journalism in Spain where he had been among other things Continue reading →

The Daniel Comboni House of the Comboni Missionary Sisters is a structure that assists the social rehabilitation of young women so that they can manage their own lives independently and with dignity. We visited the House. 

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Father Alfredo Neres is Portuguese. He has spent more than 34 years in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

“ As soon as I arrived in the Congo, I took on the task of accompanying the villages on the savannah where Continue reading →

Last March, Sister Conchita Lopez, a Comboni Sister, received from the Spanish Government, through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the cross of the Royal Order of Isabel la Católica for her commitment on behalf of poor people around the world. Continue reading →

Comboni Father David Ferraboschi is originally from Italy but has spent some 50 years in Sudan as a missionary. 

“When I first arrived in Sudan, there were about sixty of us Comboni missionaries in the country but today we are Continue reading →