Rome (Fides Service) – On the occasion of the canonisation of Daniele Comboni, Sunday 5 October, Fides Service interviewed newly appointed Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako Archbishop of Khartoum, the 7th ...

You wonder why a young man could leave his home in Italy and sail across turbulent waters through the Sahara desert to the “dark continent of mystery.†But when Comboni chose to come to Africa in ...

Noise from welding machines, shouts by mechanics working in a garage, motorbike riders, small businesses displaying motorbike parts and secondhand clothes, and food vendors along the busy Outer Ring ...

Sister Adele Brambilla, a Comboni nun working at the Italian hospital in Karak (southern Jordan) describes the daily life of Syrian refugees. Thousands of families are camped with nothing to keep them ...

SOUTHERN SUDAN — In the two-decades-long civil war that has devastated Sudan, one group that has been in the midst of serving and healing the people are the Comboni Missionaries. But they are not the ...

Mark Murray was one of 11 men who settled out of court for alleged abuse in the 1960s and 70s A victim of child sexual abuse at a priest training school has said missionaries "begged for forgiveness" ...

Rome (Fides Service) – Where there are Sisters, mission is solid ” Daniele Comboni (1831-1881) used to say in days when few people recognised the importance of the “female genius” in every sphere of ...

Fleeing the war they have walked hundreds of kilometers and are now in danger of dying of hunger, thirst and burns. Many refugees pregnant women and young mothers. The story of Sister Alessandra ...

The remains of a missionary priest missing for months were recovered from a mass grave in the southern state of Guerrero, adding to the horror of the crimes and killings in a region now notorious for ...

Kampala — Saint Daniel Comboni is one man whose legacy cuts a swathe throughout the modern world. Over 120 years since he died at the frontline of African evangelism, he has remained a household name ...