Category: COMBONI MISSIONARIES

By Christian Carlassare – The students of the Comboni Secondary School in Juba animated the Holy Eucharist at St Therese Cathedral in Kator on the feast of St. Daniele Comboni last Tuesday, 10 October 2017. The Celebration was presided by the Apostolic Nuncio for Kenya and South Sudan, his Excellency bishop Charles D. Balvo. In his homily he pointed out […]

Letter of the General Council of the Comboni Missionaries on the occasion of the feast day of St. Daniel Comboni: 10 October 2017. “Sing to the Lord, all the earth… Enter the temple gates with thanksgiving… Bless his name. The Lord is good, his love is eternal and his faithfulness lasts for ever” (Psalm 100). Dear confreres, Happy St. Daniel […]

A Eucharistic celebration marked the begging of the 18th edition of the Comboni Year of Ongoing Formation in Rome this Thursday 21 September. The ‘Comboni Year’ is a renewal course for missionaries that have done over ten years of missionary service. A group of twenty-three Comboni missionaries participate in this ongoing formation activity.  They work in 13 countries in Africa, […]

By Komakech James Kenyi – South Sudan’s Kajo-Keji County is located in the southern part of the country bordering with the Ugandan district of Moyo in the newly created Yei River state. It is the home of the Kuku, Ngepo and Liwolo, a group of Nilo-hamites Bari speaking people, and has a population of about one million habitants. The people […]

By Fr. Antonio La Braca – During the annual assembly of the Comboni missionaries in South Sudan in January this year, I had the impression that we breathed air of failure and sadness: 46 Comboni communities to close, merging of provinces, decline in finances, decrease in numbers, Comboni missionaries in closure. It is to be told to confreres, even of […]

By Jacob Solomon Shole – The Comboni Missionaries have been celebrating 150 years of foundation of their Institute, which was founded in Verona, Italy, on 1 June 1867 by Daniel Comboni. In South Sudan a whole range of activities has been organised to mark this occasion. Among them was the annual spiritual retreat that took place at Good Shepherd Peace […]

By James Komakech Kenyi – Fighting between government (SPLA) and armed opposition (SPLA-IO) forces in and around South Sudan’s Kajo-Keji County has made more than 100,000 people to flee to Uganda. Tens of thousands are living as internally displaced persons (IDPs) near the border between the two countries. As conflict intensified in the area early this year, Kajo-Keji’s population left […]

By Phillip Andruga – The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has 54 articles which cover all aspects of a child’s life and set out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights that all children everywhere are entitled to. For instance, in Article 19 of the Convention it is stated that “all children have the right […]

Fr. Jesus Aranda is a Comboni missionary working among South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda. Fr. Aranda and other three missionaries were initially based in Kajo-Keji County, South Sudan, under the Catholic Diocese of Yei. These four Comboni missionaries and the people they evangelise have been forced to leave their parish and mission due to armed conflicts and insecurity in […]