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Series: Plowing For Peace
WM Special

Peace is Possible

Widely-known in India as a peacemaker, Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil has been working tirelessly mediating conflicts for the last 15 years. He assures that peace is possible, but he doesn’t pretend that it is an easy or a straight path: “There have been heartbreaking moments: much fatigue, no results; enormous amount of effort, total failure. But we continue; we trust in the Lord. There have been encouraging moments, too, when, for instance, a Muslim group said: “We came only because Archbishop Thomas invited us to this peace meeting”; or when some of my Presbyterian or Baptist friends would quote from my writings on peace saying: “As ‘our’ Archbishop suggests.”

Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil, SDB | Archdiocese of Guwahati – India
WM Special

Tips for Peaceworkers

Peacemaking is an arduous, slow and delicate process. Whoever wants to be involved must be prepared to advance step by step. There are some tips to help peaceworkers.

Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil, SDB | Archdiocese of Guwahati – India
Frontline

The Baptism of Peace

What I truly believe is that all those who are sincerely committed to solve this conflict in Karamoja (Uganda) are, in a way, “baptized people,” even though they have never been really baptized and most likely will never be. I like to call this gift “the baptism of peace!”

Fr. Pietro Ciaponi | Comboni Missionary – Karamoja, Uganda
In Focus

Chosen by Allah

According to the Muslim witnesses who testified, in 1929, at the process to verify the sanctity of Daniel Comboni, he had been chosen by Allah as a “prophet” like Jesus, kind and charitable towards all, Blacks and Arabs, Christians and Muslims alike. Moreover, the miracle which opened the way to the canonization of Comboni, happened to a person of Muslim faith, Lubna Abdel Aziz. This is the only miracle of its kind which has ever come before the Congregation of the Causes of the Saints. What was God trying to tell us through this choice of a Muslim woman?

Fr. Jorge Naranjo | MCCJ – Sudan
Missionary Vocation

At the Feet of Jesus

For the tiny flock of Pakistan’s Catholics, Shahbaz Bhatti (1968-2011) is “the martyr.”
He was killed last March 2 by Islamic terrorists because he was “Christian, an infidel and a blasphemer.” He was the Minister for Religious Minorities. In his Spiritual Testament, he wrote: “Until the last breath, I will continue to serve Jesus and this poor, suffering humanity.” In the last twenty years in Pakistan, more than one thousand persons have been unjustly punished using the law against blasphemy. The way to religious freedom is still long and painful.

Fr. Lorenzo Carraro | Comboni Missionary
The Last Word

Who is Afraid of Dialogue?

“Nowadays we speak a lot about dialogue between religions and cultures, especially in connection with immigration. I ask myself: why should I enter into dialogue if I am content with my ideas, my values, the dictates of my faith? Moreover, those who arrive in our homeland, shouldn’t they, first of all, be respectful of our values, instead of always speaking about dialogue?”
­– Stefano Ardesi (via e-mail)

Fr. Silvano Fausti, S.J. | Biblist & Writer
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