“Notre Dame du Sahel” Radio, a powerful a tool to weave relationships between people of different ethnic backgrounds and faiths.

For many communities in Burkina Faso, radio broadcasts are often the only effective way to proclaim the Gospel. In a Continue reading →

“Stand up, rise up and push forward.… Refuse to be silent”

At a recent youth forum at the United Nations headquarters in New York, 24-year-old Gogontlejang Phaladi from Botswana was in the spotlight. The organisers of the event consider her Continue reading →

Mobilising the young for peace and development. She talked about her experience. 

I was born in 1990, a year after the Liberian civil war began, and was only 13 years old when the war ended in 2003. My mother told Continue reading →

A tiny group of Christians in a predominantly Moslem environment, determined to forge ties of friendship and dialogue in a society that still bears the wounds of thirty years of civil war. Father  Filippo Ivardi, a Comboni Missionary community tells Continue reading →

Father Amado Picardal, a 64-year-old Redemptorist priest,  has spent 20 years advocating against extrajudicial killings in the Philippines, and more recently against President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs. Recently he has gone into hiding after several sightings of what Continue reading →

Nueva Loja is located in the centre of Sucumbíos, in the Amazon forest and is one of the most important cities in the north – east of Ecuador. Its importance derives from the oil-drilling industry. For twenty five years, Radio Continue reading →

Comboni Missionary Sister Rania Samir from Aswan, Egypt, always wanted to be a sister. Or a missionary. Or maybe a teacher. We caught up with her at her new assignment in the Central African Republic to ask about her vocation. Continue reading →

Father Germano Serra a comboni missionary from Portugal. He has spent  more than 25 years in Karamoja in the northeast  of  Uganda. We talked with him. 

In his early childhood, Fr. Germano always dreamt of becoming a missionary working in Continue reading →

While visiting the small hermitage of St Damiano, in Assisi (Italy) I heard that the Crucifix spoke to St Francis there and told him: “Build My house”. Those words resounded also inside my heart as I was a student in Continue reading →

For 35 years now, Grégoire Ahongbonon has been helping African mental patients, providing them with treatment care and work. In the final analysis: ‘They are no different from ourselves’. 

Grégoire Ahongbonon, 65, originally from Benin, is no psychiatrist. He does Continue reading →