Comboni Missionaries South Sudan
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God" Mt 5,9
Yesterday, in Rome, Pope Francis offered direct support to our ministry in South Sudan – more than €100,000 to our Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio where there are 124 student from various tribes in South Sudan and Nuba mountains, living in residence and training together to become primary school teachers. It was very pleasing also to see the Pope […]
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Today’s secularization brought forth many side effects: youth find difficult to walk the right path of their vocation. Youth often prefer to choose the easy way of what they feel to do rather than what they are asked for. Youth are often attracted by what society proposes: great positions, career, easy money and success. But all these things hardly fulfil […]
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I cannot forget the amazing experience of my first arrival in the midst of my beloved people of Nyal, in South Sudan, on the past 3rd February 2017. When I got off the helicopter at the end of the trip all the way from Juba, my attention was immediately attracted by the songs and dances of so many people who […]
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“Save Africa by Africa“. This was the motto of Saint Daniel Comboni that echoes through time and beyond borders; as a result, many responded and crossed over oceans and borders to carry on the work the founder of the Comboni missionaries, St. Daniel Comboni, had began and believed in. God calls us with our qualities and weaknesses and entrusts us […]
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It is days since the worst happened on the day of Pentecost in which our beloved Dad in Christ returned home to his Father and our Father! I have just learnt of the sudden pass on of Rev. Fr. Pietro Ravasio, a Comboni priest from Italy. Fr. Pietro Ravasio worked in my diocese of Tombura-Yambio, South Sudan, for over 23 […]
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Published by Vatican Radio – (www.news.va – 13 June 2017) – The Vatican on Tuesday released Pope Francis’ message for the First World Day of the Poor which will be observed later this year on the 19th of November. Please find the English translation of the message below: Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for the First World Day of […]
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“The missionary who lacks a strong awareness of God and a lively interest in his glory and the good of souls is without the right attitude for his ministry, and will end by finding himself in a kind of emptiness and intolerable isolation”. – St. Daniel Comboni Thirty years have gone by since I first encountered Fr. Sina Ottorino Philip, […]
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On Saturday 10 June, Fr Francis Chemello, a Comboni Missionary, presented his new book to an audience of more than 100 invited guests. Some were diocesan clergy, religious and lay faithful. There were also about 30 students of Juba Comboni Secondary School. The book is entitled “The Comboni Missionaries in South Sudan – An Outline History”. It has two parts. […]
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The Comboni Missionaries in Juba, South Sudan, joined the congregation of St. Theresa Cathedral in the country’s capital city, on the feast of Pentecost, to mark the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Comboni Missionary Institute for Africa, which was founded by St. Daniel Comboni on 1 June 1867. The Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Juba, Santo Loku […]
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By Bill Firman – Solidarity with South Sudan – When violence erupted in Juba in December 2013, it spread quickly to only three of the ten states that then existed in South Sudan: Upper Nile, Unity State and Jonglei State. The fighting was intense and a town such as Malakal, in Upper Nile State, was successively under opposition and government […]
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