The Delhi-based International Human Rights Council has picked Mgr Thomas Menamparampil, Archbishop Emeritus of Guwahati, in Assam (India) as its 2019 Ambassador for Peace.

The prelate welcomed the news of the prize with awe and selflessness. “I never worked for Continue reading →

He was a leader in the pro-democracy movement in Indonesia in 1998 that finally brought down the authoritarian Suharto regime. He left political activism and became priest. 

Father Stefanus Hendrianto, 45, was among the ranks of students involved in Continue reading →

Eighty-one-year-old Sister Gerard, who for four decades has counselled prisoners in the country’s death row, has been included in the yearly list of BBC’s most influential women from all over the globe. 

Sister Gerard is the first woman from Continue reading →

A 15-year-old girl from Cameroon is one of two winners of the 2019 International Children’s Peace Prize. Divina Maloum was rewarded for her efforts in promoting children’s rights by visiting school to warn students against joining armed groups, such as Continue reading →

Migrants arrive at Casa Betania Santa Martha weary from walking for days. The shelter is a waystation in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state, where migrants wait to take rides atop the occasional northbound freight train rumbling by.

They seek basic assistance Continue reading →

Originally from the Argentine, Mons. José Luis Gerardo Ponce de León has for five years been Bishop of Manzini in the Kingdom of Eswatini, the former Swaziland. He shares his experience with us. 

Before becoming Bishop of Manzini I Continue reading →

A Camillian and also professor at the University of Ouagadougou, Father Jacques Simporè assists the sick and most neglected. He has always worked with tenacity against the spread of HIV decimating the country.  

Fr. Jacques Simporè’s dream was to Continue reading →

Comboni Brother Juan Carlos Salgado, a medical doctor, has the joy of serving the poor and needy at Bondo hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He shares with us his experience. 

Bondo is a small city towards the Continue reading →

A Catholic nurse dedicates her life to Meeting Point International, an association that takes care of more than two thousand orphans and HIV positive women. 

Kireka is one of the slums of Kampala, the Ugandan capital. It is Continue reading →

She lives and works in the Democratic Republic of Congo and has dedicated all her life to her mission to welcome and care for the worst cases, those who need her as an experienced surgeon and as one who has Continue reading →