This year marks the centenary of the birth of Focolare Movement founder Chiara Lubich. She is considered to be one of the most influential spiritual figures of the twentieth century. The Movement has moved beyond its origins in the Roman Continue reading →

He founded the Taizé Community, an ecumenical monastic community in Burgundy, France. He was killed during evening prayers in Taizé on August 16, 2005.  It was to young people that Brother Roger devoted his life, and in whom he Continue reading →

In spite of ill health and weakness Edel Quinn spent many years of her life working strenuously to help spread the Faith in Africa. She has been described as “one of the greatest Irish missionaries in the history of the Continue reading →

“To live in a hut in Egypt to share the life of the poorest: to eat what they eat and to live like them in a makeshift hut; in a nutshell, I shared their experience of radical poverty.”

Madeleine Cinquin, Continue reading →

An Italian lawyer and social activist, she volunteered to the service of the poor and sick for 33 years in Africa. Her life ended by the bullet of an unknown assassin.  She, who was known as Mother Teresa of Continue reading →

Mary Immaculate Mapuordit Hospital is situated 75 km south west of Rumbek, capital of former Lakes State in the Republic of South Sudan.  It has the size and services of a County Hospital, having grown to its’ present 113 Continue reading →

She manages the Damien Hospital, the only specialized facility to treat leprosy, tuberculosis and AIDS in all of southern Bangladesh. Sister Roberta Pignone, an Italian medical doctor, and a Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Congregation missionary, spoke to us about Continue reading →

At age 84, he thanks God for the almost unique opportunity to have worked as a doctor for sixty years in Africa.  He shares with us his story. 

I was born in the North of England. For as Continue reading →

American doctor Tom Catena earns top medical missionary award for saving lives in Africa’s forgotten war zone. 

An American surgeon hailed as “the world’s most important doctor”—to more than a million patients—is being honoured with a top international medical Continue reading →

He was rector of the Mar Elian shrine and parish priest of the Syrian Catholic community of Qaryatayn in central Syria when, on 21 May, 2015, he was kidnapped by ISIS militants. Father Jacques Mourad tells us his story and Continue reading →