Catholic missionaries Archives

Prelate says he’ll ‘never stop worrying’ about Mozambique conflict after transfer to Brazil

Feb 20, 2021

After serving as a missionary in Africa for 20 years, Archbishop Luiz Fernando Lisboa says he will “work for unity and communion” in his new diocese in Brazil.

By Eduardo Campos Lima

Mumbai archdiocese mourns Italian nun who founded Catholic hospital

Jan 20, 2021

The former superior general of the Ursulines of Mary Immaculate congregation died on Jan. 18 at the age of 94.

By Nirmala Carvalho

Music school in C. African Republic allows students to experience alternative to war

Jan 2, 2021

Polish Capuchin Franciscan missionaries have opened the first music school in the Central African Republic in hopes of preventing children from being drafted into paramilitary groups.

By Jonathan Luxmoore

Fides says 20 ‘missionaries’ died violently in 2020

Dec 31, 2020

Attacked because of their faith, killed in a robbery, murdered in a general climate of violence or struck down by someone with obvious mental difficulties, the 20 missionaries who died violent deaths in 2020 were witnesses of the Gospel, said Fides, the Vatican’s missionary news agency.

By Cindy Wooden

Brazilian priest develops recycling project for Haiti’s sea of garbage

Dec 12, 2020

Less than 13 percent of the total garbage produced in Port-au-Prince is currently collected by the metropolitan solid waste disposal service. Streets and public areas in the whole region around the capital of Haiti are permanently flooded with trash.

By Eduardo Campos Lima

Bishops in Mozambique highlight deteriorating situation in north

Nov 25, 2020

Catholic bishops in Mozambique expressed their concern over the deteriorating situation in the country’s northern province of Cabo Delgado, a region rich in natural gas at the center of an insurgency from extremists based in other countries.

By Francis Njuguna

Maryknoll lay missioner continues work of ‘martyred’ U.S. Catholic women

Nov 22, 2020

Putting the words of the Gospel into action was always an important part of Melissa Altman’s Catholic family in Pennsylvania. Some of her childhood experiences of that family cornerstone came from a great uncle, a Maryknoll priest, who ignited the kindling of a spiritual fire that led her down the road to learn more about the life and experiences of missioners.

By Rhina Guidos