Guatemala has both the highest population and the biggest economy in Central America. However, it has some of the worst poverty, malnutrition and mortality rates in the region, principally in its rural, indigenous (largely Mayan) areas. A majority of the people don’t benefit from the supposedly improving...
Missionhurst shares its trials and strategies for bringing Christ to one of the most challenging missionary countries.
Even though religion is not very important to the Japanese culture, Japan is very important to the Missionhurst missionaries.
Our charism is to “go out to the whole world; proclaim the Gospel to all creation”...
Somebody once asked me how many loaves and fish did Jesus multiply. I failed the “test”.
I could only defend myself by arguing that what matters about the multiplication of loaves is not the numbers, but the lesson Jesus intended to give. And, definitely, it was not a mathematic lesson on “multiplication,” anyway!
Indeed, of what...
Though Japan is widely known to be an earthquake-prone country, the monster “Tohoku Earthquake” of March 11, 2011 was no run-of-the-mill earthquake. Occurring off the Pacific coast of the northeastern part of Japan, this massive magnitude 9.0 quake causing immense tsunami waves and touching off more than 80 aftershocks is thought...
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.
