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Series: Hoping For Peace
Frontiers

Abused Children Can Become Violent

I see from 35 years of experience helping young people overcome the traumatic effects of childhood violence – be it psychological, verbal, physical, economic, military, emotional and sexual abuse – that it seriously damages lives, restricts full human development, reduces potential and can lead to childhood psychosomatic illness. It causes teenagers to become violent, bullies, teenage shooters, indulge in criminal behavior and suffer from adult neurosis. In others, children grow into aggressive and violent teenagers and adults. The absence of parental and family acceptance, understanding, nurturing, and affirming love creates a vacuum and vulnerability for negative and violent influences to dominate the lives of these children and youth.

Shay Cullen | PREDA Foundation
Filipino Focus

The Image of Filipino Faith

The devotion to the Black Nazarene is regarded as the most popular Filipino devotion and the most powerful image of Filipino’s traditional faith. There are some aspects that do not please the Church, but the people have been able to impose their practices and beliefs.

Leonardo N. Mercado, SDV | Professor Of Philosophy and Theology
WM Special

Dialogue For Peace

In the Philippines, the country that I know best because of my thirty years of mission in Mindanao and my commitment through the Silsilah Dialogue Movement, I observe that many Christian religious groups are now doing programs in line with dialogue for peace. In more recent time, we can observe a similar spirit among Muslims.

Fr. Sebastiano D’ambra, Pime | Silsilah Dialogue Movement
WM Special

Our Common Path

Through the path of interreligious dialogue, we can build peace in our world. This dialogue is not reserved only for the elite – every believer is encouraged to engage in it.

Cardinal Paul Poupard
In Focus

Richness and Wars

Africa is not at peace. More than 30 wars have been fought in the continent since 1970, and most of these have been internal rather than inter-state wars. Conflicts in the continent became more widespread through the 1990s, and changed in nature. By 2000, over half the countries in the region had been directly or indirectly affected by conflict, and most were factional wars. These have no defined front line and fighting is frequently opportunistic rather than strategic. In order to sustain conflict, these wars deliberately seek to involve, exploit and control a significant proportion of the civilian population.

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In Focus

Object of Greed

In people’s minds, Africa is often associated with poverty, hunger, illnesses and wars. But Africa is a continent with an extremely rich underground – in diamonds, petroleum, gold and ores. Therefore, it entices the greed of those who are capable of exploring such resources – for their own benefit.

Ana Glória | Lucas Journalist
Frontline

Art in the Slums

An art school in a slum? There is one in Kisumu, Kenya, as a component of the urban apostolate program. And it works! Training in creativity obviously expands not only personal and artistic horizons; it also fosters better understanding among humans.

Fr. Fons Eppink | Mill Hill Missionary
Missionary Vocation

“Give Me The Price of Two Bombers”

“With the price of two of your planes destined to spread death, I can cure all the lepers of the world.” This bold challenge of Raoul Follereau, the “vagabond of charity,” was directed, in vain, to the two great leaders of USA and Russia in 1954, at the peak of the Cold War. A gifted poet and orator, this Frenchman, with his wife Madeleine, toured the world to tell everybody that the real leprosy was our superstitious fear that condemned millions of unfortunate brothers and sisters to isolation and neglect.

Fr. Lorenzo Carraro | Comboni Missionary
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