Nueva Loja is located in the centre of Sucumbíos, in the Amazon forest and is one of the most important cities in the north – east of Ecuador. Its importance derives from the oil-drilling industry. For twenty five years, Radio Continue reading →
Comboni Missionary Sister Rania Samir from Aswan, Egypt, always wanted to be a sister. Or a missionary. Or maybe a teacher. We caught up with her at her new assignment in the Central African Republic to ask about her vocation. Continue reading →
While visiting the small hermitage of St Damiano, in Assisi (Italy) I heard that the Crucifix spoke to St Francis there and told him: “Build My house”. Those words resounded also inside my heart as I was a student in Continue reading →
For 35 years now, Grégoire Ahongbonon has been helping African mental patients, providing them with treatment care and work. In the final analysis: ‘They are no different from ourselves’.
Grégoire Ahongbonon, 65, originally from Benin, is no psychiatrist. He does Continue reading →
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.
