Alarmed by the pollution produced by the Konkola Copper Mines operation in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia, Chilekwa Mumba organized a lawsuit to hold the mine’s parent company, Vedanta Resources, responsible. 

Chilekwa’s victory in the UK Supreme Court set a Continue reading →

He has inherited the legacy of his father, one of the few survivors of the genocide half a century ago, and represents a “people” that today numbers only 59 people.

Adriano and his few companions are so attached to his Continue reading →

She organized community efforts to stop mining development by British mining company Anglo American in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. 

Brazil is one of the five largest mineral producers in the world, with much of the activity concentrated in the Amazon region. Continue reading →

Faced with the violence of criminal gangs that have overwhelmed the lives of many children, the Kenyan activist opened the doors of her home, giving young people an opportunity. A commitment that earned her the Zayed Prize for Human Fraternity Continue reading →

The 20-year-old climate activist is making her voice heard across South Africa and beyond. What she says. 

My involvement as a climate activist began in 2017 when my province, the Western Cape [in South Africa], was experiencing a water crisis Continue reading →

In Cambodia, Songvat and Tharin, today Sister Marie and Sister Teresa, are the first women to enter the religious life since the bloody regime of the Khmer Rouge. A conversion that went hand in hand with the reconstruction of the Continue reading →

A community of Comboni Missionary Sisters work at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bébédjia, dedicating their lives with passion and joy to serving those most in need. We visited the place. 

Bébédjia, a town located in the Eastern Logone region of Continue reading →

The story of Ward Al-Hussein, a Syrian teacher from Deir al Zour, who has lived in Turkey since 2020. Having survived the earthquake of last February 6, she teaches storytelling to children to rebuild, together with them, with words, a Continue reading →

“Being a priest is not just about giving blessings. It is much more: it means standing alongside those who have lost everything”. Father Bernard Kinvi tells the story. 

We are in 2014, and the then 32-year-old Bernard, a Togolese by Continue reading →

“It is not too late to save the ‘Amazon of the oceans’, the appeal of Edwin Gariguez, parish priest and director of Caritas in the island of Mindoro, in the centre of the Philippines, expresses the desires, dreams, hope of Continue reading →