TESTIMONY - Entrusted to the Salesian Province of the Southern Philippines, the Salesian presence in Pakistan continues to flourish. At the exact anniversary of Fr Noble Lal's priesthood ordination, the first Pakistani Salesian priest, which took place in Lahore on the occasion of the Feast of Mary Help of Christians, a new Salesian of Pakistan...
MESSAGES - It isn’t possible to «understand» anything of God without experiencing grace, love and communion. I say experience in the most human and intricate meaning of this word. To have the experience of grace means being capable of offering yourself freely as Jesus did in the Incarnation emptying himself and assuming a condition as a slave...
TESTIMONY - Newark – Beneath the curved wooden ceiling at Bethany Baptist Church, New Jersey’s faith leaders Thursday night vowed to stand alongside those targeted under the White House agenda — and build their own wall of resistance to President Trump’s policies. “Not on our watch will anyone have to stand or fight alone,” said the church’s pastor...
TESTIMONY - A group of young Comboni missionaries who evangelize in different missions across South Sudan has attended a five days workshop on “personal integration of values and communication dynamics in the mission”. The group of young evangelisers, brothers and priests, meets every other year to share missionary experiences and reflect...
TESTIMONY - Like nuns everywhere, the Benebikira Sisters, the oldest indigenous congregation in Rwanda, have sisters who are teachers, nurses, pharmacists, formators and administrators. But they also have religious with a unique title: Sister Listeners. "The genocide created many problems...
TESTIMONY - Fr. Philipp Renczes SJ, Director of the Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. Father Philipp Renczes is professor in systematic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Since 2011, Father Philipp has been the director of the Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies...
NEWS 2017 - Sr. Kathleen Melia is recovering in a Manila hospital after she was attacked outside her convent in a remote island in the southern Philippines on March 1. She underwent surgery to repair a broken leg, suffered in the attack in Midsalip on the island of Mindanao. She is already starting physical therapy...
TESTIMONY - They all call her the “Mother Teresa of Burma”: Sister Marta Mya Thwe, a religious of the Congregation of St. Joseph of the Apparition (SJA), is committed to taking care of people with AIDS or HIV, who lack proper care, are marginalised by society and thrown out by families, and of whom the Burmese health institutions...
TESTIMONY - Pramila Surel is the first woman to pass class 10 from the Surel community in Suri VDC. She is a teacher in the local School named, Bhuneshwor in which all the children of Surel community do their primary education. She has been teaching in the school for about two and half year. Meeting Pramila during the earthquake...
TESTIMONY - When the Missionary Sisters of the Teaching and Atoning Savior from Peru arrived toward the end of the 20th century, it caused a veritable sensation in the rural enclaves of Virgen del Carmelo de Villa Ygatimy, a sprawling community northeast of Paraguay’s capital of Asunción. Today, the sisters serve some 20,000 faithful through about 100 “chapels,”...
TESTIMONY - On June 2 this year, the Comboni Missionaries celebrate 150 years of their foundation. Not long before, on April 16, Comboni Missionary Fr David Kinnear Glenday celebrates forty years of priesthood. Here, drawing out the missionary meaning of gratitude, he shares something of what these two significant milestones mean...
