this month inside World Mission

Vol. XVIII × No. 5

JUNE 2006

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VOCATION
Uganda
The first African saints

Uganda is at least one-third Catholic. The martyrdom of Charles Lwanga and his companions in the late 19^th century was a flowering seed. They were justly proclaimed as the first African saints. Read

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AFRICA - OPINION

The ferments of the suburbs

- By Renato Kizito Sesana

Comboni Missionary

I live in the periphery of the periphery of Nairobi. Here, new things are happening all the time, things which never happen in the luxurious fortified subdivisions of the capital′s center. Indeed, it is here where all kinds of ferments of our society are born and grow.

CHINA WINDOW

"The prevention of 400 million births"

Zhang Weiqing, director of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, defends the "one-child policy," saying: "The problem is not the law; this has led to the prevention of 400 million births." (www.asianews.it)

WM SPECIAL

Northern Uganda - A humanitarian drama

- By John Baptist Odama Archbishop of Gulu

War has been ravaging Northern Uganda for the last 20 years. Result: 200,000 dead and many people brutally maimed; 40,000 abducted children, most of them bearing deep psychological scars; and almost two million internally displaced persons still living in camps, unable to go back to their original homes, and suffering from intermittent chronic insecurity.

ASIAN MISSION CONGRESS

The voice of a young continent

- By Joy Candelario FABC - OLF - Youth Desk

In the 1^st Asian Mission Congress, to be held in October in Chiang Mai, Thailand, the voice of the young will be heard. Before that, almost a thousand young people from 25 Asian countries are expected to participate in the 4^th Asian Youth Day in Hong Kong.

SOCIETY

Kenya

The Tree of Life

- By Fons Eppink

Mill Hill Missionary

The ancient symbol of European medieval Christianity – a cross flowering on Easter Sunday – was given beautiful local expression in a remote corner of Kenya. The concurrence between traditional culture and Christian symbolism once more came alive as, for the Turkana, the green leaves of the ′ephuu′ tree symbolize life beyond death.

TODAY

Fr. Tarcisio Pazzaglia

"Help us. Give us faith!"

More than a hundred Comboni Missionaries and Comboni Sisters are working in war-torn Northern Uganda. Here is the testimony of Tarcisio Pazzaglia whose attempts to mediate in the conflict almost costed him his life. After an ambush, a shooting, an unbearable walk and a night in prison awaiting execution, he prayed: "Don′t You see that we are working for peace? Help us. Give us faith!"