The Comboni Family Mission Without Borders

July 2026

In This Issue

Editorial

Human Dignity in the Age of AI

The encyclical emphasizes that AI should not jeopardize the ability for interpersonal relationships. The fact that AI introduces additional intermediaries into human relationships can pose a risk of dehumanization.

WM Special

St. Comboni and the Missionary Women

This article presents the Comboni Family–comprising priests, brothers, sisters, secular and lay–a family whose origins trace back to Saint Daniel Comboni’s vision “Save Africa with Africa.” Here, we focus on the female dimension of the Comboni charism.

WM Special

Mission without Borders

Building on the presentation of the various branches of the Comboni Family, this text focuses on the Comboni Missionaries, Comboni Secular, and Comboni Lay. These missionaries live a missionary charism, reaching across human and geographical frontiers. They “make common cause” with the most vulnerable and marginalized people.

WM Special

Comboni Missionaries in Asia

The Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus have been present in Asia since 1988, focusing on first evangelization, vocation promotion, and formation. Their work prioritizes mission awareness and the formation of new candidates while reaching out to those who have not yet encountered the Gospel.

Frontiers

Pope Leo’s AI Encyclical Highlights Central Importance of Catholic Social Teaching

Catholic Social Teaching has now, with Pope Leo’s encyclical letter Magnificent Humanity, been fully brought to the forefront of Catholic doctrine, thus enabling it to apply its Gospel-based principles more effectively to the many life-and-death situations.

Insight

The Caring Filipino Family

Rooted in bayanihan, utang na loob, and malasakit, Filipino families remain strong but rising poverty, online abuse, and institutional neglect now threaten the very values that once held communities together.

Frontline

Leo XIV One Year of Moral Leadership

Pope Leo XIV stands as a lighthouse in the storm, reclaiming peace as justice. Using soft power and hard conscience, our American pontiff uses the Augustinian diplomacy of truth, unity, and love in contemporary geopolitics.

In Focus

Sr. Eva Fidela Maamo A Nun’s Mission of Healing

Sr. Eva Fidela Maamo worked as a missionary surgeon in remote communities across the Philippines. In her later years, she began preparing others to take her place, training volunteers to carry on her work so the poor would not be left without care when she could no longer serve.

Our World

Be Strong and of Good Courage

Inspired by the examples of ordinary people such as Gideon, Jephthah and Moses-who discovered strength in their limitations-Archbishop Menamparampil advises young priests, religious and missionaries to nurture attitudes of patience, kindness and acceptance of humiliation.

Hopeful Living

Public Servants Reflect on Hope

The desire to serve one’s neighbors and engender authentic hope in people can be realized through numerous forms of dedicated service in a variety of public positions; three examples readily come to mind.

Philippine Crossroads

The Filipino Vocation as a Synodal Dance

One gives the steps, the other gives the dance. And when the Filipino people offer their gifts generously–through faith, resilience, service, and compassion–the Church in the Philippines becomes a living garden of the Spirit where God continues to bring hope to the world.

Follow Me

Peter, the Fisher of People

A vocation is a call that God extends to us, despite our mistakes and limitations, to which we are invited to respond with readiness, generosity, and joy. This was the process experienced by the apostle Peter.

Bible Quiz

BIBLE QUIZ

Please mark the correct answer with an ‘x’ and submit your responses to the editor via email at wm.editor@gmail.com. The winner will be selected from those who have submitted all correct answers and will receive a six-month subscription to World Mission.

Pope Leo XIV

Magnifica Humanitas Valuable For Ai Development

Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas offers AI developers a valuable anthropological contribution as they design systems with which human beings interact at a deeply personal level, according to Taylor Black, Microsoft’s Director of AI and Venture Ecosystems.

World Mission Sunday

Catholics Invited To Pray And Cooperate

During his address to representatives of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Pope Leo XIV invited the entire Church to participate in World Mission Sunday.

Care of Creation

Theme For World Day Of Prayer

The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development announced the theme chosen by Pope Leo XIV for the 2026 celebration of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, to be held on September 1, as “They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks” (Isaiah, 2:4).

Philippines

Catholic Groups Call For Workers’ rights

A forum of Philippine organizations, including the Catholic-affiliated “Church People-Workers Solidarity” (CWS) and unions such as Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) and the National Federation of Labor Unions, is calling for the protection of workers’ dignity and rights in the face of economic crises and the emergence of technologies like artificial intelligence that could replace humans. 

The Comboni Family Mission Without Borders

July 2026 Issue
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