Pastoral worker committed to defending creation killed

Pastoral worker committed to defending creation killed

Diana Isabel Hernández Juárez, a 35-year-old teacher and coordinator of the Pastoral of Creation of the parish church...

Sr. Maria Troncatti

Sr. Maria Troncatti

Sr. Maria Troncatti was born in Corteno Golgi (Brescia) on 16 February 1883 into a large family of poor farmers, she...

Fr Luigi Bolla’s SDB. Called "Yánkuam" by the Achuar

Fr Luigi Bolla’s SDB. Called "Yánkuam" by the Achuar

Fr Luigi Bolla’s SDB lived a mission of grounding the Gospel in the heart of the amazon rainforest, among the Achuar...

Bishop Alejandro Labaka

Bishop Alejandro Labaka

Bishop Alejandro Labaka was born in Spain on April 19, 1920, in Beizama, a small village in the Basque Country. A...

Pablo Fajardo: farmer and lawyer from the Amazon

Pablo Fajardo: farmer and lawyer from the Amazon

Multinationals have often demonstrated their contempt for so-called Third World countries by plundering their...

British religious activist Paul McAuley found dead in Peru

British religious activist Paul McAuley found dead in Peru

A British religious activist who faced expulsion from Peru a decade ago for his work on behalf of indigenous...

Brother Vicente Cañas SJ

Brother Vicente Cañas SJ

For the month of April the Jesuit 2014 calendar, which commemorates the 200th anniversary of the restoration of...

Father Ezekiel Ramin

Father Ezekiel Ramin

The diocesan phase of the beatification process of “Servant of God” Father Ezekiel Ramin – already proclaimed “martyr...

Sister Dorothy Stang

Sister Dorothy Stang

Sr. Dorothy Stang chose to live in extreme poverty in order to help others living in poverty. She had a passion for...

Father Carlos Riudavets Montes killed in Peru

Father Carlos Riudavets Montes killed in Peru

Spanish Jesuit priest Father Carlos Riudavets Montes working among the indigenous people of Peru’s Amazonia region, was...