The date has been set for the beatification of Comboni Missionary Father Giuseppe Ambrosoli – November 22, 2020 in Kalongo, Uganda. For more than 40 years Father Ambrosoli dedicated his life to helping the people of Kalongo – expanding a dispensary into...
By: Father Joe Bragotti, mccj Remember the days when gas was only 20 cents a gallon and they even gave you a free glass if you “filled her up?” With an oil change you could get a free glazed water pitcher. Those were my traveling days and, after a couple of years we...
“Our Future Hope” New Hostel for Malawian Girls As seen in Comboni Missions Summer 2019, page 17 By: Lindsay Braud Near a Comboni Mission in Lunzu, Malawi, there is a nursing school. Every day, Father Jean-Marie Munketalingi, mccj, would watch as students made their...
This story first appeared in Comboni Missions Magazine Spring 2019 An Extraordinary Story of Mission By: Kathleen M. Carroll June 3 is always remembered in central Africa as the Feast of the Ugandan Martyrs, when 22 young converts were executed by order of a...
This story first appeared in Comboni Missions magazine Winter 2018/19 This Comboni school in Chama, Zambia, is breathing new life into its community By: Fr. Jesto Bwalya, mccj At the end of a worn-down dirt road near the border with Malawi lies Chama, a small town in...
Comboni Home-Based Seminary Is an Innovative Solution for an Old Problem By: Fr. Jose Alberto Pimentel, mccj I was assigned to be the parish administrator of Holy Cross in South Central Los Angeles almost six years ago. I had already been a missionary priest fifteen...
