Comboni Missionaries' Team

The statistical yearbook of the Vatican registers an overall increase of 1.285 million of baptised Catholics in 2015, 49% of which live in the Americas. For the first time since 2000, there is a decline in the number of priests. In five years, Catholics in Asia, and especially in Africa, have grown from 15.5 per […]

The current four-year-old conflict in South Sudan has forced more than 2.3 million people to flee their homes. These war-affected populations also need psycho-social and spiritual help to mitigate the effects of war traumas and to enable them to move on with their lives. Fr. Yacob Solomon is a Comboni Missionary who has been evangelizing,

The children of Khan Sheikhoun were the first to suffer as the suspected nerve gas sarin, a deadly, fast-killing agent, caused the children to suffocate. As they tried to breath with damaged lungs, they started to foam at the mouth. Twenty died horrible deaths at the last count, and there may still be more. By

“The Crucified One invites us, as people of Sudan and South Sudan, to bear the sufferings of one another, to keep patient vigil together in the darkness, to listen even in death for life’s heartbeat… Our mission is not to roll the rock over the grave but, together with the One who goes before us,

Acholi is a Luo Nilotic ethnic group from Northern Uganda, with a population of approximately 1.2 million in the country. Among the Acholi people, the birth of a child is regarded as a miraculous work of the supreme God, Nyarubanga. The spirits of the dead ancestors known in Acholi as Abila, also play an important

First woman in Nigeria to graduate in mechanical engineering and founder of the ‘Lady Initiative’, which supports girls into the mechanic profession, providing both work and dignity. She welcomes us in her large mechanic’s workshop on the outskirts of Lagos. She is wearing the blue overalls of a mechanic. She has just finished taking apart

Kathmandu is the capital and largest municipality of Nepal. There are a lot informal markets in the streets, where you can find everything you need. One of the main attractions is the medicine man who promises to cure everything… almost. Not far from the railway station we met Shakya M. Aakar. He was talking to

For some years now, a group of Comboni Missionaries has been present among the Ashaninka and Nomatsiguengas indigenous peoples in the Central Selva of Peru. In the area, there are also powerful Drug traffickers and terrorists. San Martin de Pangoa is a district of the province of Satipo, located in the Central Selva of Peru.

On 1st June this year, the Comboni Missionaries celebrate 150 years of their foundation. Not long before, on the 16th April, Comboni Missionary Fr David Glenday celebrates forty years of priesthood. Here, drawing out the missionary meaning of gratitude, he shares something of what these two significant milestones mean to him personally. From 1991 to

The Mexicaneros are an ethnic group, who keep their traditions and costumes alive through celebrations, dances, and rituals. The Mexicaneros are an ethnic group currently settled in three villages: Santa Cruz, in the state of Nayarit, San Agustin de San Buenaventura and San Pedro Jícoras in the southeast of the state of Durango. They speak