Comboni Missionaries' Team

The Comboni Missionaries’ strong local involvement in the Central African Republic has seen them witness the ongoing political and ethnic conflict at first hand. Increasingly, the conflict is also deepening along religious divisions. To address these divisions, Pope Francis will visit the Central African Republic this week – his first visit into an active war […]

The Comboni Missionaries are devoted to the spreading of the Gospel and the fostering of human development in 40 countries worldwide. As part of their global presence, the Missionaries are active in 16 African countries – including South Sudan. For decades, Sudan has been riven with internal ethnic conflict, which was only moderately allayed by

The Comboni Missionaries’ exposure to conflict areas in Central America, as reported in Friday’s article, confronts them with the rising problem of child trafficking from Central America to the United States. The northern triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras in Central America have been seeing a humanitarian outflow driven by organised crime. Nearly

Pope Francis: “I always, always have had a great admiration for you, for the work that you do – for the risks that you face” The Pope received representatives of the Comboni Missionaries in the Clementine Hall on the morning of 1 October 2015. The audience at the Vatican formed part of the General Chapter of