“Teaching is a wonderful experience. I try to give my life for others through education”. Comboni Sister Beatriz Cristina Mata, who has been in South Sudan for twenty-five years, shares her experience.

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Father Simon Agede has been a vocations promoter in Lusaka, Zambia, for a little over a year. He talks to us about the difficulties and joys of this work, meeting so many young people.

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Hermann Mahunan Djimini is a young Comboni Missionary from Cotonou, Benin. He was ordained a deacon on 9 February. He shares with us his feelings and his dreams. 

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In Guatemala, Father José Pérez carries out his missionary service with young people, helping them learn about missionary life and discern the specific vocation to which God calls them.

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In the family he learned to be a Christian. In the parish he learnt to serve God and the Church. He became a diocesan priest and worked in areas where only Afrikaans was spoken. He eventually joined the Comboni Missionaries. Continue reading →

Father David Nyinga, a Comboni missionary from the Democratic Republic of Congo, shares his life and faith with the Nomatsigenga people in the central jungle of Peru. He talks about the ongoing process of inculturation and the joy of celebrating Continue reading →

Hermann Mahunan Djimini is a young Comboni Missionary from Cotonou, Benin. He was ordained a deacon on 9 February. He shares with us his feelings and his dreams. 

I am the second of six children in a Catholic family. I Continue reading →

A journey of faith, trials and resilience: from a devout Catholic family to the priesthood as a passionate Comboni Missionary. Fr Clement Mutie Mbithi from Kenya talks about his vocation journey. 

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“If God calls, sooner or later He will make Himself heard”. A Comboni nun, Sr. Milagros Plaza A., tells us about her vocational journey.

I come from the Barranca neighbourhood, north of Lima, Peru. The day I made my first Continue reading →

Father José Joaquim da Silva Araújo, a Portuguese Comboni missionary, currently works as a formator in the postulancy of Balaka, in Malawi.

I was born in Vila Nova de Famalicão in November 1959 and grew up in Sezures. I am Continue reading →