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In Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, gangs and gang “warfare” are plentiful.
In the local dialect there this is known as “Kuluna”: acts of violent banditry. Bands of young men wait in hiding for some local citizen to walk...
My name is Fr. Louis Ngoy. I am a CICM missionary currently serving as the Provincial Superior of Missionhurst-CICM in Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
As a superior of a province, I visit all our missionaries in the fields and I also visit the ICM Sisters (Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of...
Since 1998, Fr. Geraldo has served as a Missionhurst priest with a personal calling to fight against child abuse and neglect. Today he serves at the Sunflower Children’s Center in the Philippines. This is his story.
I was born in 1966 in Minas Gerais, Brazil. My father and mother managed to send all four of us children to...
“Parents need to consider what they want their children to be exposed to, and this necessarily means being concerned about who is providing their entertainment, who is entering their rooms through television and electronic devices, and with whom they are spending their free time. Only if we devote time to our children, speaking...
It is certainly no secret that much of the humanitarian aid and relief work all around the globe flows from distinctly Christian institutions — not a small amount of which are Catholic. Not surprisingly, the impact these organizations have extends to nations where Christians are in the minority.
For example, only 2% of the...
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.
