Kategoria: Formation

Conflicts: challenges and opportunities for prophetic witness

Data: 04/07/2024

Who among us hasn’t experienced conflict in our communities? We are far from a paradisiacal state of absolute peace. From my experience, the theme of conflict easily provokes a feeling of malaise. It brings us back to the day-to-day realities that we experience. Ignoring conflicts, not wanting to see them, not talking about them, ignoring them or rushing back to a state of apparent tranquillity without managing them constructively are attitudes and habits that we observe, particularly in our religious circles.

Mission and conflict: daily choices to make

Data: 02/07/2024

The expression ‘si vis pacem para bellum’ (If you want peace, prepare for war) comes to my mind whenever I think about ‘peaceful resolution of conflicts’. In fact, living is itself a fight and existing implies will, freedom, and choices. These three essentials battle constantly in a human in existence, being in conflict with himself and his social milieu.

A “wake-up call”

Data: 19/06/2024

Peace is the desire of every member of any community or society. Regrettably, conflict is part of social dynamics, part of any progress and of any human development. Conflict brings crisis. Crisis is a “wake-up call” to tend to neglected issues which are essential for a healthy life together.

Training on the safeguarding of minors and persons in situations of vulnerability, Kigali, 2nd day

Data: 19/06/2024

This second day of our training session was marked by two interventions. In the morning, we welcomed Dr. Angela Rinaldi, professor at the Institute of Anthropology of the Pontifical Gregorian University. She articulated the relationship that exists between Safeguarding and The Right Use of Power in Pastoral Ministry. She underpined that power is a gift for good to be exercised in a responsible way by respecting other people’s dignity.