A difficult path to reach the priesthood. Experience in Peru and now in Spain. Father Fugain Dreyfus Yepoussa, a Central African, shares his vocational journey.

My priestly vocation was born very early. When I finished primary school, I asked my Continue reading →

His vocation as a Comboni Brother is woven into the fabric of his dreams. Togolese Brother Ghislain Dagbeto tells the story of his vocation.

In my formative years, I initially resisted invitations to attend church, shedding tears at the mere Continue reading →

During his childhood he escaped a serious illness.  The Protestant environment and the reluctance of his parents to send him to the seminary did not extinguish the desire in Fr David to become a missionary priest of the Comboni Missionaries. Continue reading →

My vocation journey started when I joined my uncle after my father’s passing. When I joined my uncle, the first experience which shaped my spiritual life was the moment of prayer. Every evening, my uncle gathers the family to pray Continue reading →

As a member of a community of shepherds, he could easily have continued tending the goats like any other boy. But his dream of becoming a Comboni missionary priest led him in a different direction. Father Etabo Joseph Lopeyok talks Continue reading →

She is much more than an African Greta Thunberg because the reality of the continent is more complex than that of Europe when reflecting on the effects of climate change.

But the Swedish activist inspired her to take action when, Continue reading →

She is convinced that the circumstances of many African countries, the “underdevelopment” to which they have been subjected for decades, have generated a unique creativity and responsiveness among their peoples. She hoped that young people would not be disappointed and Continue reading →

On May 15, 2023, at a quarter to eight in the morning, Nigerian time, Hilda Effiong Bassey, known as Hilda Baci, broke the Guinness World Record for marathon cooking – 93 hours and 11 minutes; six months later an Irish Continue reading →

She lived until the age of 13 in her native Cameroon, then emigrated with her family to Zurich, Switzerland, where she studied economics.

In 1995 she went to Dakar (Senegal) to interview the director Ousmane Sembène and discovered that she Continue reading →

Elizabeth Zandile Tshele was born in Tsholotsho Department, Zimbabwe, on 12 October 1981. Known in the literary world as NoViolet Bulawayo  – the name recalls her mother, who died when she was just 18 months old, and the town where Continue reading →