Comboni Missionaries South Sudan
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God" Mt 5,9
From a well to a dignified Catholic mission Comboni Day (10/10) 2018 was a very special one in mapuordit because the community celebrated the 25th anniversary of the catholic presence. Saint Josephine Bakhita Parish was established in 1993. Before then, there was practically nothing if not a well to fetch water. Today, the mission counts three Comboni – nursery, primary […]
» Read more
Tali is a Missionary post placed at about 180 km. Northwest of the South Sudanese capital, Juba. Tali was opened in 1954, but the Comboni Missionaries were obliged to leave it after their expulsion from Sudan in 1964. This missionary commitment was established anew in 2006, among the joyful canticles of the Mundari people who welcomed Fr. Markus Körber as […]
» Read more
It is now the forth occasion in which the Comboni Missionaries celebrate this anniversary at the Pre-Postulancy of Moroyok (Juba) since its inauguration back on the year 2015. The community of the religious composed by Fr. Christian Carlassare, Fr Emmanuel Denima, Fr Joseph Ukelo, Fr Salvatore Pacifico and Bro Giuseppe Manara and the nine pre-postulants that are attending their orientation […]
» Read more
By, Roy Carlos Zúñiga Paredes. Juba is the capital of the newest African country: South Sudan. Here, a kind of miracle happened recently. And though it could not be appreciated by all, those who witnessed it valued the event in its real import: 17 abandoned children were rescued from wandering around the streets and started the trip of their […]
» Read more
On February 25, 2018, Sc Mario Pellegrino professed his final vows at the presence of Fr Christian Carlassare, Fr Fernando Gonzales Galarza and Fr Yacob Solomon Shole, Mark Ohide – a pre-postulant in experience, three Comboni sisters and the faithful of the three chapels of Nyal: Birth of Jesus Prince of Peace, the Ascension of the Lord, and the Sacred […]
» Read more
By Jesús Aranda – We are celebrating CHRISTMAS and on the eve of the NEW YEAR 2018. I would like to be with you in your celebrations offering my warmly wishes of joy, peace and love to you and all your dear people. I hope that, despite of all our problems, worries and sickness, we shall be able to open […]
» Read more
By Francesco Chemello – The star that appeared 2000 years ago is surely the same one that has appeared and stopped on each of your homes and also on our parish of Christ the King in TALI, South Sudan. However, it is a special star that, if not welcomed, continues its journey towards other more welcoming places. It’s like the […]
» Read more
“She gave birth to a son, her first-born. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them at the inn” – Lk 2,7 “Mary was able to turn a stable into a home for Jesus, with poor swaddling clothes and an abundance of love. She is the little servant of […]
» Read more
Paolo Rizzetto is a Comboni missionary working in South Sudan and is among those in this war-torn country who have “accepted the difficult privilege of caring for others, those in need, those who are vulnerable”. He makes a balance of the work he has done with his team in a mission hospital throughout this year and finds many blessings and […]
» Read more
Fr. Guido Oliana, MCCJ Introduction This year 2017, memorial of the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Comboni Missionaries, I have had the opportunity to present my recent book[note]G. Oliana, The Transforming Power of the Gospel. The Kairos of Mission. Explorations in Comboni Missionary Perspective, Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa 2017.[/note] to various audiences: the students of the Catholic […]
» Read more