The Chittagong Hill Tracts is a region in the south-east of Bangladesh, on the borders with India and Myanmar. It is an inaccessible mountain area that the local government has kept isolated from the rest of the country. A group Continue reading →
Mexican Comboni Brother Juan Carlos Salgado is a doctor and has been working in Africa for the past 16 years. We ask him to shares his experience with us.
I am working at the mission hospital in Mungbere in the Continue reading →
The waste pickers in Marco Moura on the outskirts of Santa Rita, a city in the state of Paraiba, in the northeast of Brazil. A story of redemption that shows the way to hope, shared by a Comboni community living Continue reading →
The Dassanech, are one of the oldest ethnic groups in Africa. These people live in three different east-African countries: Ethiopia, Sudan and Kenya. The Dassanech have been in conflict with the nomadic Turkana for generations. The tensions may be explained Continue reading →
For more than twenty years now, Brother Richard Hardi, a medical ophthalmologist, travels through the forest of the Congo to reach the most distant villages and restore sight to people otherwise condemned to a life of darkness.
Their childhood has been marked by unspeakable cruelty. Former child soldiers find hospitality at the school run by Sister Rosemary where they learn a trade and to be loved.
Restoring dignity and confidence to former child soldiers is a difficult Continue reading →
Spreading the culture of life to realities of violence and death. This is the goal of the Legal Project. Father Saverio Paolillo, a supporter of this initiative, talks to us about it.