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Stopping inequality is in your hands

10 February, 2023 by Alberto de la Portilla

With this slogan, Manos Unidas (NGO of the Spanish Church), begins its annual campaign.

Manos Unidas has been known for supporting development projects around the world.

As Comboni Lay Missionaries, we collaborate in the campaign when we are asked to do so and we share our experience of the support received.

This year, Monsignor Jesus Ruiz, Comboni missionary and bishop of our diocese in Central African Republic, participated in a special way.

We leave you the video interview made for the campaign where we can hear the situation in the country.

Dário Bossi, an Italian Comboni missionary who has been working for years in Brazil with our CLM community, told us in the opening press conference of this year’s campaign about the situation in Brazil where our CLM are also present (his intervention from minute 25).

We also leave you the interview that Fr. Dário was given on television on the occasion of the presentation of this campaign.

Project “Memory of Africa”: Milagros Zabalza

25 October, 2022 by Alberto de la Portilla

We continue this series of testimonies with Milagros Zabalza.

Comboni Missionary Sister and nurse, Milagros has dedicated a large part of her life to work with patients affected by Hansen’s bacillus (leprosy), both in Egypt and in South Sudan, when the country was not yet independent. In this interview, recorded expressly for Proyecto Memoria, she narrates her life journey, linked to the African continent, during the outbreak of the Second Sudanese Civil War.

Memory of Africa Project: Magdalena Rivas

21 October, 2022 by Alberto de la Portilla

We continue this series of testimonies with Magdalena Rivas.

A Comboni Missionary Sister and nurse by profession, she tells us about her missionary experience in Chad.

African Memory Project: José Carlos Rodríguez

6 July, 2022 by Alberto de la Portilla

We continue this series of testimonies with José Carlos Rodríguez.

A journalist of formation, he worked for more than 20 years as a Comboni missionary in Uganda reporting on conflicts and as a social worker after the civil war. He is the only Spaniard to have spoken with Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, during meetings and talks in which he participated with the aim of restoring peace in the country. He has also worked on conflict resolution projects in D.R. Congo and in the Central African Republic, where he continues to work today.

African Memory Project: Fr. Ismael Piñón

28 June, 2022 by Alberto de la Portilla

We continue this series of testimonies with Fr. Ismael and his missionary experience in Chad.

Fr. Ismael Piñón, as a Comboni Missionary, shares with us his time of missionary service in Chad for eight years. There he was in charge of the formation of a parish that would be the backbone of such important social projects as the construction of schools in villages without access to education.