Mission Spirituality

The Watatulu people with whom I work in Tanzania are very traditional, but three of their young women recently became the first girls of the tribe to go to secondary school. Two of them had run away from home and come to me for help because their parents were arranging marriages for them. I intervened, citing a new law that says parents can be prosecuted for refusing to let their daughter go on for higher education. That—plusmy chancy guarantee that the girls would not become pregnant—made them concede, reluctantly.

Indigenous people expand missioner's perspective

Es un miércoles al anochecer a principios de septiembre y el Padre Iván Trujillo con un grupo de voluntarios se preparan para visitar unos vecinos especiales: los trabajadores migrantes hispanos en la zona noreste de la Diócesis de Buffalo, New York. "Cada miércoles en la noche celebramos la Misa en español, distribuimos frazadas, ropa, comida y pasamos un rato con los migrantes en por lo menos uno de los 100 campamentos en esta región", dice Trujillo, mientras ayuda a poner los suministros en un camión afuera de la Iglesia Resurrección en el noreste del pueblo de Batavia, donde es párroco.