Comboni Missionaries South Sudan
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God" Mt 5,9
28 March 2017 – Servant of God Father Ezechiele Ramin, a Comboni missionary, killed in Brazil on July 24, 1985 concluded. The official act took place in his home parish, St. Joseph’s church in Padua, in the presence of members of the diocesan ecclesiastical Court, Comboni representatives, missionaries and many believers. The courtroom proceedings will now be delivered to the […]
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24 March 2017 – The residence of the missionaries and a workshop used as a vocational training centre have been looted in Kajo-Keji, South Sudan. That workshop had been set up to train people to develop skills and learn different professions such as carpentry, ironmonger mechanic, masonry, weaving and bakery. It also produced good quality furniture for schools, churches and […]
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23 March 2017 – A large crowd has turned up at St. Theresa Cathedral in Kator, Juba, this Wednesday 22nd March to pray for Late Bishop Rudolf Deng Majak of the Catholic Diocese of Wau, who passed away on 6th March in Germany. The body of the Late Catholic Bishop arrived in Juba in the afternoon, at 3:30 PM, and […]
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21 March 2017 – (By Bill Firman) – Currently, I am on home leave in Melbourne. I shall be back in South Sudan on Easter Sunday. One evening last week, I attended a function, organized by the Lasallian Foundation, on the 89th floor of the Eureka Tower from where one can look out with a panoramic view of the city. ‘There are more […]
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19 March 2017 – The Comboni Missionaries, a society of priests and brothers founded in Verona, Italy, on 1st June 1867 by Daniel Comboni, celebrate 150 years of foundation this year. A whole range of activities have been planed world-widely to mark this event. In South Sudan, where the founder Daniel Comboni himself worked as a missionary, celebrations have already […]
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13 March 2017 – A group of 45 grassroots church leaders from 14 Catholic parishes of the Archdiocese of Juba has attended a three days training workshop on Justice and Peace. The activity was held at the Good Shepherd Peace Centre in Kit, outskirt of Juba, from 09-11 March 2017. The participants, which included 11 priests and 11 women, have […]
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By Salvatori Adit – Bishop Rudolph Deng and I are old timers. He is older to me for two years. First time I met him was in 2001 in AMCEA office because I was told to go to Nazareth Parish Wau, and needed visas, I was told his relative was working in the Ministry of Religious Affairs in Khartoum. He […]
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Fr. Guido Oliana is a Comboni missionary priest and Professor at St. Paul Major Seminary in Juba. With nearly 30 years of missionary experience in Africa, Fr. Oliana has just written a book entitled “The Transforming Power of the Gospel. The Kairos of Mission. Explorations in Comboni Missionary Perspective”. The book is a collection of articles that have been written […]
» Read moreThe following is the full text of the Holy Father Francis’ message for Lent 2017 on the theme “The Word is a gift. Other persons are a gift”. Dear Brothers and Sisters, Lent is a new beginning, a path leading to the certain goal of Easter, Christ’s victory over death. This season urgently calls us to conversion. Christians are asked […]
» Read more2017 LENT PASTORAL MESSAGE Ash Wednesday, March 1st 2017 WE PROLAIM A HUMILIATED CRUCIFIED CHRIST (1COR.1-36) Beloved brothers and sisters in our Lord, Jesus Christ, Great Lent, which we now begin, is traditionally a time in which we take a careful look at ourselves, our lives, and the direction in which we are going. In the common language of the […]
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