Comboni Missionaries' Team

When the Good Lord N’gai made his plans for all the creatures upon his earth, he made the hippopotamus as an animal of the forests and plains. However, the hippopotamus was greedy and, finding plenty of food all round him and no enemies to worry about, he grew fatter, and fatter and fatter. The fatter […]

In Chad, a missionary who has lived in the country for over 53 years created a Cereal Bank, which has proved very successful. Today, 346 banks have formed a federation with as many as 35,000 members benefitting 350,000 people. The project is still growing right where the harvest is more precious than gold. “Our purpose

A church that wants to be a ‘bridge’ between the Christian and Islamic worlds. Deeply involved in the field of immigration. Cardinal Cristobal Lopez, Archbishop of Rabat speaks to us. He had only been a bishop for a year and a half when, on 5 October, he was made a cardinal. “It is clear that

A number of congregations are helping to combat the pandemic. Their services range from providing key COVID-19 messages over the radio to opening sharing their own resources of food and hygiene facilities with those most in need. In Zambia, sisters from six congregations have teamed up and taken to local airwaves to bolster their government’s

In a popular quarter of Guayaquil, a girl of sixteen has started an open-air school for the many children who cannot follow their lessons online due to the pandemic which is still claiming many victims in Ecuador. With more than 69,000 confirmed cases and 5,000 deaths, Ecuador is one of the epicentres of the pandemic

According to the latest edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI) report, global civil unrest is on the rise, as every region of the world has experienced hundreds of civil unrest events over the last decade.  The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) in its 2020 report said a key trend identified in this year’s

Deep budget cuts to education and rising poverty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic could force at least 9.7 million children out of school forever by the end of this year, with millions more falling behind in learning, Save the Children warns in a new report.   Girls are likely to be much worse affected than

More and more young people are joining protests around the world and are playing an increasingly important role in fighting against racism, discrimination, and social inequality. Is it possible that eight minutes and 46 seconds can change the world? From London to Lisbon, Berlin to Pretoria, as well as Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro, Rome and

Brazil is the country struck hardest by Covid-19. Comboni Father Saverio Paolillo has sent us some reflections on rethinking our lifestyles. The Covid-19 pandemic is ravaging Brazil. It has become the country with the second largest number of victims after the United States, with over 65,000 deaths and 1.6 million confirmed cases. The figures are

For four years, while studying for her ordinary level in secondary school, Nakiganda Rosette constantly admired a lady mechanic called Betty Kamya. She was so unique to Nakiganda because she repaired motorcycles, the practice of which is dominated by men throughout the industry. Betty Kamya did not know that she was acting as a role