Maria Cecilia Sierra Salcido is from Mexico and has been a Comboni Missionary Sister for 32 years. She has lived in many different countries. She shares her experiences with us. “The desert has become a sacred space for me.”

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He has just recently celebrated his first year in his new parish. Reflections of Father Moses Samuel Huruwella, a young Malawian Comboni missionary. 

After 13 years of mission in Togo and Ghana, last July, I celebrated my first year in Continue reading →

Franciscan brother Benedict Ayodi is one of the founders of the Laudato Si’ Movement. His mission in Kenya is to inspire people to join the cause of the environment.  

Brother Benedict Ayodi is a Capuchin friar who, for some Continue reading →

“I am living out this service by trying to witness and share the beauty and joy of the Mission with these young women who wish to offer their lives as missionaries of the Gospel”. Sr. Salome Wangari, Kenyan, talks to Continue reading →

Father José Vieira, a Portuguese Comboni missionary, tells us about his pastoral visit to a Christian community in Massina, Ethiopia.

I used to hear about Massina when I went to celebrate mass at the outstation of Jalahu, at the bottom Continue reading →

For over a hundred years, the Comboni Missionaries have been working in north-eastern Uganda. “Being a missionary here means living side by side with the people, knowing their language and culture, and, if necessary, giving one’s life for them”. This Continue reading →

I am Fr. Aldrin Janito, one of the pioneering Filipino Comboni Missionaries. I was born in Kiamba, South Cotabato, in the south of the country.

In June 1991, I started my journey with the Comboni Missionaries.  While undergoing my postulancy Continue reading →

Sr. Joana Aparecida Ortiz, a Franciscan Sister of Our Lady of Aparecida who has lived among the second largest population of Indigenous people in Brazil since 2010, shares how she answered God’s call to carry out her mission alongside suffering Continue reading →

Father Eduardo Revolledo Villanueva is a young Comboni Missionary from Lima, Peru. He is in Taiwan and shares his vocation story and his missionary service in the Asian continent.

To talk about my vocation, I have to remember my experience Continue reading →

“My experience working in the health sector has been a journey of learning, helping, empowering, loving, giving and receiving love and hope, connecting with women and families”.  Sister Esther Alaam of The Congregation of the School Sisters of Notre Dame Continue reading →