Comboni Father  Seraphin Kakwata Congolese, share with us his experience among afro-descendent communities  in S. Lorenzo parish, in the province of Esmeraldas. 

In 2013,  I was assigned to San Lorenzo, in the province of Esmeraldas, in the north-western Ecuador. I Continue reading →

In Ceará, one of the poorest states of Brazil, and one of the most violent in the world, Sister Francisca Erbenia de Sousa, head of Crateus Diocese, as always, fights alongside the people regarded as the least important in the Continue reading →

Comboni Missionary Father Mitiku Habbthe from Ethiopia, is working among the Turkana in the remote north-western part of Kenya, which is a semi-desert area. We share with us his experience. 

Turkana region is located in the north-western part of Kenya Continue reading →

Sister Clara Nacy, of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Iraq, shares with us some of the challenges her people are continuing to face, as they return to their devastated homes and struggle to rebuild.  

After 7 August Continue reading →

Commitment to work side by side with immigrants right to the end. A Church up and running. The testimony of Fr. Tomás Gonzalez. 

“I have received many threats. I know I could be killed but I am not afraid. I Continue reading →

She organized the women of La Toma and stopped illegal gold mining on their ancestral land. She has just received Goldman Environmental Prize winners for 2018. 

Illegal gold mining is a growing problem in Colombia, where 80% of gold is Continue reading →

She worked with the landless and exploited farming families.  She organised village women into self-help groups, and helped families establish savings accounts. Her activities were a thorn in the flesh of moneylenders, social exploiters and propertied upper castes, who hired Continue reading →

For the last five years, a retired engineer and his wife has been feeding poor people on the streets almost every week, Kamias Road in Quezon City. 

Nobody knows about it – neighbours, family members, and friends. “We do not Continue reading →

My name is Oswald Baptist Abakar Abushaka, originally from Wau Diocese in the South Sudan. I am a Comboni missionary priest. I come from a small South Sudanese ethnic community called Golo from an area called Abushaka.

I belong to Continue reading →

The diocese of Moroto, in the north of Uganda has around 400,000 inhabitants of whom just over half are Catholics living in ten parishes and served by thirty-six priests. Since 2014, the diocese has been led by a Comboni bishop, Continue reading →