Fr. Aldo Rotini Fr. Achille Figini On June 9, 2011 Fr. Achille Figini passed away after many years of service in Mexico. He was ordained to the missionary priesthood in 1955 and from 1966 to 1972 he worked in Spain. From 1973 he spent the rest of his life...

Downtown Kamanyola The Ruzzi River, near Kamanyola, defines the border between theCongo and Rwanda. ”The Diocese of Uvira, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, inaugurated on Monday, in joy, in cheerfulness and thanksgiving to the Lord, its first hospital” Etienne Esube told Fides. “The new structure the first of...

The Fez Festival of Sacred Music 2011 in Morocco is the best opportunity for music lovers to attend this unique event and also explore the mystical city of Fez. The Fez Festival of Sacred Music is held in the month if June every year and it is also the best time...

Fambul Tok (Krio for “Family Talk”) emerged in Sierra Leone as a face-to-face community-owned program bringing together perpetrators and victims of the violence in Sierra Leone’s eleven-year civil war through ceremonies rooted in the local traditions of war-torn villages. It provides Sierra Leonean citizens with an opportunity to come...

Fr. Vasco is on the right with Archbishop Dolan and Fr. Zimmer at his lastdeparture from Milwaukee before he left for Brazil. On May 28 2011, Fr. Vasco Milani passed away from complications of a severe form of diabetes. He was 69 years old. He was a lhard working...

Here is a wonderful film from National Geographic that stretches hope across cultures and time. In a small, remote, mountaintop primary school in the Kenyan bush, hundreds of children are jostling for a chance for the free education newly promised by the Kenyan government. One applicant causes astonishment when he...

From left to right, Frs. Pupolo (USA), Tom Welsh (UK), Carl Chudy (USA)Joe Matteucig (USA) and John Convery (UK).  Frs. John Convery and Tom Welsh of the United Kingdom  Province came to the USA Province to talk together about some practical ways our two provinces could collaborate in some...

Religious and human rights activists are asking U.S. churches to invite Jewish and Muslim clergy to their sanctuaries to read from sacred texts next month in an initiative designed to counter anti-Muslim bigotry. The June 26 initiative, called “Faith Shared: Uniting in Prayer and Understanding,” is co-sponsored by the...

Sister Cathy Arata began directing Solidarity’s Pastoral Services in March 2010 after having been selected unanimously for the position by the Solidarity’s Governing Board. Sister Cathy, a School Sister of Notre Dame (SSND), hails from New Jersey and Maryland.  A former missionary in El Salvador,  Sister Cathy has a...

Fr. Luigi Brioni, who has been living and working in Sierra Leone many yearss,shares God’s Word with the people in West Africa. At midday today the Holy Father received the participants in the General Assembly of the Pontifical Missionary Works, which reports to the Congregation for the Evangelisation of...