Comboni Missionaries' Team

The market is a world in miniature, not just because of the infinity of goods but because of the amount of people who go there. The market is a melting pot of races, cultures, languages, traditions, and religious rites. The market has a bit of everything – fruit and vegetables, rice, baby food, galoshes, vermicelli and pumpkins, as […]

In Africa, there are a large number of languages, around 2,000, which makes up 30% of the languages spoken in the world. African languages have been classified in various ways. A generally accepted classification defines four main groups of interrelated languages. Afro-Asian This group covers about 200 languages, with some 175 million speakers. It is

Paika is a rural community of the Miao minority in the hilly Guizhou Province of south-western China. In the local language, the name refers to this mountain village, which produces the Lusheng, a reed instrument. The village, with no more than one hundred houses, has been known around the province for its Lusheng production over

Political and economic inequality, narco-trafficking and violence: the Church tackles some of these challenges facing the Dominican Republic by organising people using a Pastoral Plan. Father Lorenzo Vargas, the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo’s Vicar general, talks about the pastoral work of the Church. Visitors to the country will see big avenues, high buildings, beautiful houses. The city of Santo Domingo

Bishops denounce irresponsible mining activity, which is destroying the environment, human dignity and social life. In a recent statement, 12 Bishops of the ecclesiastical provinces of Medellín and Santa Fe de Antioquia (Colombia) said: “As pastors, we have repeatedly raised our voices and drawn attention to the harmful effects of the exploitation of natural resources, in

The World Council of Churches (WCC) has chosen Africa for the next World Mission Conference, to be held in Arusha, Tanzania, between 8-13 March 2018. One of its goals is the establishment of a missionary ecumenical movement. After sixty years, Africa will once again host the World Mission Conference, the most important ecumenical event on the theme

Extending the culture of life to places affected by violence and death — this is the goal of the Legal Project. Father Saverio Paolillo, a supporter of this initiative, talks to us about it. Gabriel, one of our children, looks like he is 12; but we don’t know his real age, since his birth was never officially recorded.