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The Spiritans, or Holy Ghost Missionaries, have been working in Zambia since 1971. The congregation sends its priests wherever pastoral work is particularly difficult, especially in remote and underdeveloped regions. In the Diocese of Ndola, a new parish was recently established in the village of Baluba, which is under the care of the Spiritan Fathers. The number of believers is growing rapidly in this overwhelmingly rural region, and many people there are very involved in the Church. But their modest ...

Thanks to your generous help, we have been able to support the seminary in Sarajevo for many years now. First established back in 1890, it has lived through difficult times. Under communism, it was closed, and although it was able to reopen following political changes, with the Bosnian war from 1992 to 1995, the situation quickly became too difficult, and seminarians were forced to continue their studies abroad. Today, the seminary is once again a beacon of light for the ...

The Carmelite convent in Chachapoyas, the capital city of the Amazonas region of northwest Peru, was established in 2015 and is therefore celebrating its 10th anniversary. It is consecrated to the Infant Jesus of Prague and to Saint Joseph.   The devotion to the Infant Jesus of Prague is characteristic of the Carmelite Order and is very much alive to this day, among both the male and female branches of the Carmelites. The famous statue of the Child Jesus, clothed as ...

Mozambique, in southeast Africa, is one of the poorest countries on Earth. A brutal civil war, which lasted from 1977 to 1992, caused massive damage to it, damage that is still visible to this day. Large sections of the country’s infrastructure are still in ruins, added to which is the damage done by natural disasters in this region of tropical storms, droughts, and flooding. And since 2017, many parts of the country, especially in the North, have been devastated by ...

As a result of the war, most people in Ukraine are suffering fear, trauma, and psychological stress, while many are torn by feelings of hatred and rage. So many families have been broken up, and in many cases, unable to get together again. The healing of souls is every bit as important as the easing of immediate material needs and the eventual rebuilding of cities and physical infrastructure after the war. And so, in addition to practical aid for refugees ...

Last year, on the Third Sunday of Advent, in the early morning, tropical cyclone Chido cut a swath of devastation through the province of Cabo Delgado in northern Mozambique, a region sadly already plagued for several years by Islamic jihadist terrorism, and where hundreds of thousands of civilians are homeless refugees.   With wind speeds initially bordering on 125 miles an hour, the cyclone tore through homes, schools, hospital clinics, and kindergartens, flattening trees and electricity pylons and knocking out the ...

In Maadi, a suburb of Cairo, 28 young men are currently training for the priesthood at Egypt’s one and only Coptic Catholic seminary. They come from different parts of the country. Abba Romany Fawzy, the rector of the seminary explains, “The mission of the seminary is to keep alive the flame of faith in the Church through the formation of generations of good priests. Our aim is to make sure that these priests are men of piety and prayer and ...

Indonesia is truly an island nation, with over 17,000 separate islands, around 6,000 of which are inhabited. Geographically, most of them belong to Asia, while some are included in the Australian continent. With a population of over 272 million, Indonesia is the most populous Muslim nation in the world. However, the religious makeup of the country varies from place to place, with the island of Flores, for example, having a Catholic majority.  The parish of Beteng Jawa is on the ...

Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Latin America, and the country is additionally burdened by a grave energy crisis and constant power cuts. Then, there are the extremes of climate, with the country sometimes facing extensive periods of drought, and at other times, torrential rainfall. Moreover, the country is used as a transit land for the drug trade going into other countries. As a result, large areas of the country are controlled by criminal gangs called “Maras.” The ...

The parish of Boqueirão belongs to the Diocese of Campina Grande in an impoverished part of northern Brazil. It is about 60 years old and is dedicated to Nossa Senhora do Desterro, or Our Lady of the Flight – a reference to the flight into Egypt by Our Lady and Saint Joseph with Christ, to escape King Herod’s executioners. Within the town of Boqueirão itself, and in all the surrounding area, there is a lively devotion to the Mother of ...