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 →

Two Lay Comboni Missionaries: “It is through all the people we meet on a daily basis that we hear the call to mission”. 

Many are the times when we leave our house and venture along the winding paths and the Continue reading →

The workshop is called the Jagorani Handicraft Centre. Sr. Mary Lillian, the founder started working with poor women in 1968; now it works with 3,000 people, mostly non-Christians. The products are also exported abroad. For the sister, “if women can Continue reading →

I learned with the poor that I am always in God and that no moment of life is without Him—because He is love and happiness but also pain and death. All of our precarious living is within the reach of Continue reading →

After 40 years working in the Media, Sr. Lissy Maruthanakuzhy, decided to move for another challenge experience. She tells us her story. 

It was the desire to become a missionary that brought me to the Daughters of St. Paul in Continue reading →

Brother  Ayih Teko Dugbé Fafa Jean Claude Pierre from Togo, talked with us about many challenges, he has  experienced along the way to becoming a Comboni brother.  

The first challenge was life in the postulancy as a brother living Continue reading →