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Hello dear friends,

in this world day of missions;

We want to share with you

the joy that comes from our hearts.

On this special day,

We are asked to trust

that love always overcomes the challenges

that we may find!

We cannot stand still,

while there are people suffering,

forgotten people in the world

people without right to live!

If we are call missionaries

cheerful we accept this mission,

to bring the world of today

The truth of evangelization!

To be a Christian is to be a missionary!

So we cannot stay apart!

With Christ and Comboni

we dare to go further: we dare to love! …

Happy world day of missions,

We wish you with all our hearts!

Let us continue always together,

On the paths of the mission!

With the best wishes: Comboni Lay Missionaries (original in Portuguese)

Today, October 10, 2013, the day when St. Daniel Comboni passed from this earth to a new life, our new web site www.lmcomboni.org is born.

We, the Comboni Lay Missionaries, have been dreaming for many years of having a space on the internet at the international level in which to share what each one of us is doing in more than 20 countries where we are present. Today this becomes possible.

This site is born resting on three pillars:

A website where to find the more formal information about who we are and where we are.
A blog, from which we write to you, born with the intention of bringing freshness and up to date news to our daily life. We hope to continue to fill this space with the contributions from all the various countries and from those who will visit us. And we invite you to subscribe in order to receive the news items when they come out.
And finally a base of formation where we wish to share the formation which we prepare in the various countries, so that we may learn from them, both the CLM, the other members of the Comboni Family as well as any person with Christian and missionary interests or to get to know other cultures.

We wish to make new friends, some here on the internet and, to all who so wish, we invite them to get to know us personally. United we can do a lot.

Today we plant the seed of a tree which together we wish to help grow. We hope that someday it may turn out to be the tree of the word where the Africans sit to converse, to reflect, to rest and to help the community grow.

We welcome you from whatever corner of the world you will visit us in our missionary home, open to all, where we hope you will feel at ease.

Cordial greetings

The Comboni Lay Missionaries