The Missionaries of Africa Open a Working Session on African Traditional Religions at Kungoni Centre, Malawi

Monday 18, March 2024, the Missionaries of Africa opened a one week working session on African Traditional Religions (ATRs) at Kungoni Centre, Malawi. Confreres from Rome, Mali, Zambia and Malawi are gathered to work and share experiences. In his opening remarks, Anselme Tarpaga, Assistant Superior General in charge of Encounter and Dialogue (ED), welcomed the participants and thanked them for having spared their time for the session.

Have you rejected South Sudan altogether? Does your very soul revolt at her?

When, in 2021, my appointment to South Sudan became known, I received a couple of messages ranging from inspiring prayerful wishes to nerve-wrecking comments on South Sudan. Someone said “there is so much violence in that country, I wish you wouldn’t have to go there”. Another regrettably asked “why are you always appointed to war-torn countries?

Non-violence : an essential requirement of the human conscience

Violence and Insecurity: The Petit Echo asked me to write on the theme of Violence and Insecurity! I have to say that these are two realities that also affect me deeply on a personal level and the level of “my life in general” because, since 2011, the violence and insecurity that used to be in the North of Mali has spread to almost the entire Malian territory and then to Burkina Faso in 2013.

Anti-human Trafficking Campaign: “A luta continua”

Human trafficking is a criminal activity within which victims are recruited, harboured, transported, bought, or kidnapped to serve an exploitative purpose, such as sexual slavery and forced labour. Due to social, economic and political vulnerabilities, men, women and children are trafficked across international borders. Despite legal and immigration measures taken to curb this man-made disaster, the number of victims keeps on increasing.

Threats of violence at our doorsteps

The prevalence of violence as a destructive form of human behaviour has sadly become a recurrent episode of our lives, “a human universal,” according to political anthropologist Jon Abbink.

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