Comboni Missionaries' Team

Brazil has the fourth-largest prison population in the world. Hugely overcrowded. Under-guarded and underfunded prisons. Above all in the hands of different gang leaders. “Talking about prisons means talking about a factory of torture, which produces violence and creates monsters. It is a stressful environment and barbarism is constant”, said Father Valdir João Silveira, national […]

Speaking in the Apostolic Palace to the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See during the traditional exchange of New Year’s greetings with the diplomats, Pope Francis said, “One can never kill in God’s name”. He added that the world is “dealing with a homicidal madness which misuses God’s name in order to disseminate death,

The Maasai people are an ethnic group who live in Southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They are a unique tribe who live a traditional life, accounting for around 0.7 percent of Kenya’s population. There are many divisions and groups within the Maasai culture. The Foundations of the Maasai The founder of the Massai was Maasai

Guimbí is a small village in a forest in the north of Esmeraldas province, Ecuador. The villagers are the descendants of African slaves, who worked in the mines and settled there in the late 1700’s. They have preserved several ancient African traditions, especially religious ones. They make their living working in the fields, fishing, hunting, and

What is it that makes Christmas so beautiful, cheerful and such a happy time, especially for children? It has to be the gift-giving, the time when children look forward to gifts and signs of love, caring and sharing. The children of well-off families receive so many gifts through the years that it has no special

  The General Council of Comboni Missionaries writes a Christmas message to the Comboni Family around the world. “Christmas is a seed of hope because God enters into our history in order to transform and recreate it in a new direction. This is best understood from the victims, the poor, the landless and the homeless.

Masks, magical movements, singing: the wisdom of the village is passed down from generation to generation, year after year. It is a warm morning and all the inhabitants of Lanta Kope, a small village in southern Benin, have gathered to attend the Gelede festival which takes place when the dry season ends and when the

Following the meeting of the superiors of Comboni circumscriptions of America and Asia, the missionaries wrote a letter to the young people from both continents. In the letter, the missionaries said: “We write to you because we know that you have a thirst for authenticity. Your quest questions us, it challenges us to share with you

He spent 35 years in Africa, dedicating his time and work to teaching religious education in schools. During his last years spent battling with cancer, Fr. Vincent really showed determination and courage. He was living proof that, like Daniel Comboni, the missionary must never consider any obstacle too great, any situation beyond redemption, as we