Bishop Pierre Claverie. Being a Christian in a Muslim world

The murder of Pierre Claverie, a Dominican and Bishop of Oran in Algeria, was the latest in a series of tragic murders that plunged the Church in Algeria into mourning between 1994 and 1996. The other victims were seven Trappist monks, four African missionaries, a Marist monk, and several religious of various congregations. Pierre Claverie […]

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Witnesses of Jubilee. Mons. Angelelli. “Turning one ear to the Gospel and the other to the people”.

Bishop Enrique Angelelli, along with two priests and a layman, were killed during the dictatorship because of their preferential option for the poor. A bishop must always have “one ear on the Gospel and the other on the people”. The Argentinean Enrique Angelelli learnt this while working with the members of the GIOC, Christian Youth

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Herbs & Plants. Zanthoxylum chalybeum. The future pharmaceutical applications.

It is a tropical plant that thrives in the medium to low altitudes of dry woodlands or grasslands. Laboratory tests indicate that the plant is also effective against several diseases, including malaria, sickle cell anaemia, diabetes, and worms. Zanthoxylum chalybeum, also called ‘knob wood’ in English, is a deciduous spiny shrub. In Greek, Zanthoxylum means

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Mission Diary. Father Simon: “Sharing my vocation.”

Father Simon Agede has been a vocations promoter in Lusaka, Zambia, for a little over a year. He talks to us about the difficulties and joys of this work, meeting so many young people. I am Ghanaian by birth and have been working in the Comboni Province of Malawi-Zambia since 2022. Although our circumscription includes

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