Father Pepe Girau Pellicer describes the experience at the Ankanful prison in Ghana. “We experience the mission in its dual dimension of proclaiming the Gospel and promoting humanity.” The large Ankanful prison complex is located about six kilometres from Cape Coast, the Ghanaian city where we Comboni Missionaries have an international scholasticate, where I am […]

Mexican Comboni nun, Sr. Rosa María del Socorro, talks to us about her experience in one of the most difficult areas of the Dominican Republic. I worked for several years in Chad, Africa; among the indigenous Mazatec people in southern Mexico; and in Haiti. I am currently in Barahona, the Dominican Republic, where I am

“Sometimes I think the only way to talk about God is to remain silent and offer an embrace full of tenderness and hope,” Father Alessio Geraci, an Italian Comboni Missionary, tells us about his missionary experience on the outskirts of Lima. I am the parish priest of Cristo Misionero del Padre, in Chorrillos, on the

“As Comboni Lay Missionaries, we are present in 21 countries in Europe, America and Africa. We come together to have a common missionary presence and to share our lives with needy communities on the peripheries of cities or in rural areas where many are forgotten, and also in our countries of origin”. From the beginning

“Secularity” is the dimension that distinguishes the spirit and the way in which we embody the gift of the Comboni charism. We live in the world, inserted into our own social, professional and ecclesial environment.   “The Lord has also chosen you to collaborate through prayer, the total gift of yourselves, and the work of

“There are many paths that we travel along: deserts and forests, outskirts and frontiers, poor roads, tarmac and rivers, villages and cities. Although we express ourselves through different ministries, we are united by a single desire: to care for life”. We were born from Saint Daniel Comboni’s great dream, from an ideal that fills our

“We have been called to ‘go out of ourselves’ and reach out to others, embracing their differences and engaging with their personal histories, cultures, and religious experiences. These people become the subjects of our mission and our interlocutors in the discourse of evangelisation”. Not without a touch of pride, which translates into a deep sense

Almost 4,000 Comboni Missionary priests, brothers, sisters and lay people of forty nationalities form the Comboni Family. They are working in forty-five countries among the “poorest and most abandoned people in Africa, the Americas and Asia.” The Comboni Family is a community of people that originated around the person of a missionary, Saint Daniel Comboni.

Silence is essential for prayer, interior lives and personal sanctification. External silence is a powerful manifestation of a person’s serenity, calmness, tranquillity and peacefulness. A person who enjoys and keeps silence is a revered person and pleasant to deal with. A “silent person” will be courteous, gentle, polite and generally well-mannered. He commands respect and

There was once a blacksmith called Walukaga, who was very skilled at all kinds of metalwork. Every day, a small crowd of people would gather at his smithy and watch him at work making hoes for the farmers, knives and spears for the hunters, or armlets and bracelets to decorate the young men and maidens.