The island of Sumba is part of the southern archipelago of the Lesser Sumba Islands in Indonesia. A small Christian community lives there, practicing the Gospel through their understanding of and respect for various traditions. The “PusPas” Pastoral Centre, which is located in the small village of Katiku Loku, was established in 1980 after the […]

Kibera is one of the largest slums on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. A small missionary community has been living there for almost twenty-one years. They have created the ‘Bank of Trust’, which is not an official lending institution but an association of small savers. A man stands by a big pile of rubbish. He

Between 2006-10 and 2011-15, major arms imports by states in Africa increased by 19 percent, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which noted that Algeria and Morocco remained the two largest arms importers in the region, with a combined total of 56 percent of African imports. New data on international arms transfers

Global warming and the El Niño phenomenon are “partly to blame” for the spread of the mosquitoes that transmit the illness. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the Zika virus a public emergency of international significance, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean. Brazil reported its first case in May 2015, and since then

According to the report “Crushed but not Defeated”, published by Open Doors, the international Christian persecution charity, Christians in northern Nigeria face persistent violence. The publication reports that between 9,000 to 11,500 Christians have been killed in the area over the last few decades; at least 1.3 million Christians are currently internally displaced or have been forced

She alternates her violet-coloured sari with her black judicial gown; her daily prayer is followed by skillful oratory in the courtroom. Sister Theresa Joyce is a nun from the Congregation of St Anne’s Sisters, a diocesan order of Madras in southern India, but she is also a criminal defence lawyer. For ten years now, she

A recent Human Rights Watch report has denounced the exploitation of thousands of children working in Tanzanian gold mines. The report focuses on the Geita, Shinyanga and Mbeya provinces, not far from the Lake Victoria region and close to the Zambian and Malawi borders. The sun has not yet risen when Haji and Mosi, aged