Comboni Missionaries' Team

He loved the Comboni Institute and spared no effort to fulfill its aims. In this same way, he loved the Church and spent his life in its service.  Fr. Paul Felix’s sudden death on the 10th November, at only sixty-one, was a great shock to many. A Londoner by birth, Fr. Paul’s Mother was from County […]

Across the desert. In the grip of traffickers and military people. A long journey that can last as long as twenty months. The hecatomb in the Mediterranean Sea. “Our driver tried to go through different paths across the desert to avoid the check points, but he got lost. He stopped the vehicle and left it,

A group of artists are campaigning for peace, with pop-up street performances and murals across the capital, Juba. The activists have taken the name Ana Taban, which means “I am tired” in Arabic. Musicians played lively tunes in South Sudan’s capital, and pedestrians and market shoppers watched the impromptu concert with curiosity. A soldier in

It has nearly been six years since the self-immolation of a Tunisian fruit vendor triggered a wave of uprisings across the Arab world. What has changed since the people in the Middle East and North Africa went out onto the streets to demand freedom? A new UN report paints a dire picture, warning that the

The Tarahumara people, who call themselves the Rarámuri, are one of the ethnic groups that inhabit the Sierra Tarahumara in the State of Chihuahua, Northern Mexico. This group keeps traditions alive through celebrations and in particular, through drink. The Raramuri people have settled in the region for almost a thousand years, among the pines and above

They cover their face behind balaclavas, greasy hands and heads bowed. Meeting the shoeshiners in La Paz. Every morning at 5 o’clock, Paco leaves his home in El Alto, a very poor city on top of La Paz. He reaches the centre of the Bolivian capital after an hours travel by bus. He is one

Basha Miao Village lies on the southern border of Southwest China’s Guizhou Province. The Miao villagers have maintained the characteristic lifestyle of the Miao ethnic group, still retaining the living customs and dressing code of the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. We visited the location. Basha means ‘lush‘ in the Miao language. Located on