- GLOBAL MISSIONS
From Colombia: “Should I die of a virus or die of starvation?”
Medellín is a city of eternal spring, a city of joy; a city of entrepreneurs and people who are proud
Four life lessons learned from the people of Riosucio
We were leaving Riosucio with mixed feelings. There was no other way to go. On the one hand, we were
A Proclamation from Paramilitaries that Locked People in Houses
A few days after the murders on the streets of Riosucio , after the innocent boys were buried and the
Social cleansing in Riosucio: Innocent young man shot dead
It was half past ten in the evening. I was at the computer, Silva with a book in her hand,
From the Choco War Zone
“This is the red zone,” told us Fr. Alvaro, a Colombian missionary who lives and works in one of the
Flying on a Military Airplane
After almost a month, we left Atalaya, filled with impressions and memories of lovely encounters with people and nature. It
They have never seen a white man before
It was raining cats and dogs and it didn’t seem to stop. We sat with Enrique under the roof of
Visiting a Native American Community by Boat
Many years ago, a villager was walking along the narrow jungle paths, not far from the Native American community by
Gringo in Atalaya
Atalaya is a small town in the Ucayali Region of Peru. The town has 30,000 inhabitants, the half of them
Across the Peruvian Andes and Car Crash in the Jungle
Together with Yanda, an Indonesian Claretian who studies in Lima and lives with other students in the Claretian monastery, we
Life is a Lesson of Humility
In the last four posts, we shared the stories of people who once found themselves at the bottom, but they
From Drug Addict to Family Man (3)
In my previous post, you read about how Milton managed to hide his cocaine addiction from his wife for a
