“Stand up, rise up and push forward.… Refuse to be silent”

At a recent youth forum at the United Nations headquarters in New York, 24-year-old Gogontlejang Phaladi from Botswana was in the spotlight. The organisers of the event consider her Continue reading →

Mobilising the young for peace and development. She talked about her experience. 

I was born in 1990, a year after the Liberian civil war began, and was only 13 years old when the war ended in 2003. My mother told Continue reading →

A tiny group of Christians in a predominantly Moslem environment, determined to forge ties of friendship and dialogue in a society that still bears the wounds of thirty years of civil war. Father  Filippo Ivardi, a Comboni Missionary community tells Continue reading →

Father Amado Picardal, a 64-year-old Redemptorist priest,  has spent 20 years advocating against extrajudicial killings in the Philippines, and more recently against President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs. Recently he has gone into hiding after several sightings of what Continue reading →