My name is Ayih Teko Dugbé Fafa Jean Claude Pierre, a Togolese. I was born in Aneho, a coastal town of southern Togo. I grew up in Lomé the capital city of Togo. After high school, I went to the Continue reading →
A septuagenarian Catholic nun has won the hearts of people, mostly Hindus, in western India with her work among mentally ill persons found living on roadsides. Many call her the “Mother Teresa of Mithapur.”
Many in India view people with Continue reading →
He asked that priestly ordination be celebrated not in the cathedral, as for ten of his seminary companions, but inside the notorious prison of Apodaca, known for the living conditions of its detainees. A phenomenon involving all of Mexico
He dreams of becoming a botanist. He loves reading short novels. One day, he lays his hands on a booklet titled “If the seed falls… “and buys it. He feels fooled. Yet, he reads it all the same… and his Continue reading →
Seven abandoned children have been rescued from wandering around the streets and started ‘the trip of their lives’. They are part of a long-awaited educational project, which hopefully will take them, and many others like them, into a different future. Continue reading →
“Stand up, rise up and push forward.… Refuse to be silent”
At a recent youth forum at the United Nations headquarters in New York, 24-year-old Gogontlejang Phaladi from Botswana was in the spotlight. The organisers of the event consider her Continue reading →
A tiny group of Christians in a predominantly Moslem environment, determined to forge ties of friendship and dialogue in a society that still bears the wounds of thirty years of civil war. Father Filippo Ivardi, a Comboni Missionary community tells Continue reading →
Father Amado Picardal, a 64-year-old Redemptorist priest, has spent 20 years advocating against extrajudicial killings in the Philippines, and more recently against President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs. Recently he has gone into hiding after several sightings of what Continue reading →
