“Many things occur in life outside of our direct control or effort to make them happen. When you revisit them through your memory, you discover that what mattered most is not that you tried hard, but that you said “yes” Continue reading →

“One day, when I was 17 years old, I had an unexpected encounter which touched my heart. I was in a very delicate and difficult moment of my life in which I was trying to understand the sense of my Continue reading →

“I really believe that a missionary priest is a person called by God to meet the overwhelming gratuitous love of God for humanity”. A Comboni Father from Congo tell us his story.  

I grew up in a fairly quiet Continue reading →

God has his ways to reach people and to show them His Will. He talks about his missionary vocation. 

My vocational journey started when one of my friends invited me to be an altar servant in our parish. In Continue reading →

A ‘spiritual vacuum’ filled by granny’s tears. A parish youth group that offers peace and opens to others. And the decision to plunge into the sea of mission that offers unbelievable joy. He tells us his story.

I was born Continue reading →

Wien Dud was born in 1912, son of Dud Akot, the chief of the Jur. His father was the first chief of the South to open up the area of Mbili to the missionaries. At the age of ten Wien Continue reading →

Chief Albert John Mvumbi (“Continuous Rain” in Zulu) Luthuli, a leading figure in South Africa’s struggle against apartheid and Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize recipient, was a product of Christian mission schools. His father, John Bunyan Luthuli, was a missionary Continue reading →

Through her Green Belt Movement, Wangari Maathai mobilised thousands of women to plant millions of trees in Kenya. With this brainchild, she showed that any initiative counts—and it can count a lot—and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. A Continue reading →

At the beginning of October 2000 at Lacor hospital (Gulu, North Uganda) a great alarm was raised. Ajok Christine, aged 20, a student nurse, was the first one to fall sick and die. The death of a second nurse and Continue reading →

Denis Hurley was born in Cape Town in 1915 of Irish parents. Educated at St Charles College in Pietermaritzburg, he joined the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) and was ordained a priest in 1939. In 1947, he was named Continue reading →