Features

Finding Joy and Resilience Through Connection

In July 2024, Combojoven (Comboni youth), guided by Fr. Daniel Villaverde and inspired by AGUILUCHOS magazine, travelled to Turkana, Kenya for a missionary experience. They faced several challenges but found resilience and joy in the local community. Their service included painting classrooms, visiting hospitals, raising funds for medicine, and teaching tailoring skills. Their journey highlighted the balance between joy and adversity and the power of empathy and connection. Ultimately, the experience taught them the transformative impact of kindness and the strength found in shared humanity.

Marzena’s journey to mission work and embracing the call

Marzena, also known as Maya, a dedicated lay missionary from Poland, embarked on a profound decade-long journey to answer her calling to mission work, inspired by encounters with Comboni fathers and overcoming intense fears to fulfill her vocation.

Church and mission

Limiting consumption, not people

All too often, the few rich and fortunate inhabitants of this unjust world demand – and even order and impose – that the many ‘cursed of the earth’ diminish in number, so that they themselves are not forced to change their all-devouring lifestyles.

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