In the developed world, we rarely worry about infant and maternal mortality rates due to our advanced medical care. In fact, in the US, the infant mortality rate (IMR) is currently 6.2 deaths per 1,000 live births. Contrast that number with Guatemala’s IMR of 27.8, and you begin to see why our missionaries in Guatemala,...
State-sponsored violence, material poverty, learned helplessness, and lack of access to decent education and healthcare for children and families--these are just some of the obstacles that Fr. Francis Nsapo and his fellow missionaries face in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Fr. Francis, a native of DRC who has been a part of...
When asked the question, “What made you want to be a missionary?”, Fr. Charles Lutumba, a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo, answered with characteristic simplicity: “I was baptized two days after my birth,” he began, “ I grew up in a family which believed in God. When I was still young, I was thinking of three things:...
“It’s not easy to be a missionary, you know? And it’s not because of the food; it’s not because you might live in a village and have to go down to the street to bathe, and then you have blackouts maybe 8 hours a day...all of that. That’s not the hard part.
The hard part is when you have difficulty communicating, when you don’t...
Six years ago, Haiti suffered from a devastating earthquake, from which the poorest nation in the Caribbean has still not recovered.
This morning, we awoke to the news that 300 (and counting) of our Haitian brothers and sisters were killed when Hurricane Matthew made landfall yesterday. Not only are most without power, but many...
Missionhurst Missionaries build Catholic communities in frontier situations: places where the gospel is not preached or lived. This blog is about their work in the four corners of the globe, and their holistic work in four areas of focus: relief and healthcare, socio-economic development, education, and pastoral work.
