Fraternity is one of the fundamental principles of coexistence and a guarantee of survival in traditional Africa. (Image of a nurse visiting a patient at home.) The ecosophies of the peoples of the Americas propose life in harmony with nature as their fundamental...
An Ethiopian woman who fled the ongoing fighting in Tigray region prepares a meal in Hamdait village on the Sudan-Ethiopia border in eastern Kassala state, Sudan. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig (Story and photo courtesy of Thomson Reuters Foundation.) Fr. Pedro and his...
Sister Angelina Nyakuru became a fixture at Mother of Mercy Hospital in Sudan. It is the only referral hospital for more than one million area residents. It has no ICU, no ventilators, no hand sanitizer, and often even lacks ordinary soap. And COVID-19 is coming to...
UN peacekeeping forces are struggling to protect civilians from the violence in Kivu, in the northeastern reaches of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Fr. José is pictured on the right. While mining is a leading industry in the DRC, very few residents get a share...
Celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe will look very different this year for the parishioners at Holy Cross Parish in Los Angeles where the Comboni Missionaries have served for 50 years. Mrs. Graciela Marrero has been the church’s sacristan for nearly 8...
The Cross is part and parcel of every Christian vocation. For each Christian, the sharing in the Cross of Christ takes on a different form. For some, the identification with Christ’s sufferings reaches the point of giving their lives as in the case of those Comboni...
