After two years of postponement due to the pandemic, the beatification of Father Giuseppe Ambrosoli will be celebrated on November 20, 2022 in Uganda where the medical missionary spent his life. Fr. Giuseppe Ambrosoli, born on July 25, 1923, in Ronago, Italy, was one...
On New Year’s Day in 1872, in Verona, Italy, St. Daniel Comboni officially founded the Comboni Missionary Sisters. He was not new at working with religious women. In fact, for some twelve years, the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition, whom he...
St. Francis Xavier reminds us that baptism makes missionaries of us all. The Miracles of St. Francis Xavier, by Peter Paul Rubens. “Many, many are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians. If only someone could educate them...
Pope Francis meets Bishop-designate Christian Carlassare at the Vatican in March. The meeting took place almost one year after Carlassare was shot following his appointment as the new bishop of Rumbek, South Sudan. Bishop Christian Carlassare placing a cross on the...
A recent report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on human trafficking trends in Brazil highlights how socio-economic vulnerability and the lack of decent employment opportunities are leading people into the hands of criminal networks who...
