As part of the activities to concretize a response to Laudato Si, a call of the Church to respect Mother Earth, the Society of the Divine Word (SVD), The Mission Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Spirit (SSpS), the Catholic Vicariate of Donkorkrom and Ghana Fire Service (Donkorkrom) collaborated to train 40 young people from some parts of Afram Plains.
Agusan del Sur declares a state of calamity because of a non-stop downpour that has displaced almost 10.000 families in 45 villages in Agusan since January ending. In Agusan del Sur, the rains of recent weeks have flooded the entire province, including Surigao del Sur.
“At the back of my mind as a missionary, it is an unwritten mission statement to work with ‘the least, the last and the lost,’”
Bro. Paulino Bongcaras
Launching of the Laudato Si Action Platform
On June 8, 2023, another round of humanitarian aid was purchased thanks to the SVD benefactors and friends from Poland arrived in two towns in Ukraine. The Vietnamese community in Poland and the SVD Mission Procure from Pieniezno donated the funds.
Ambassa (Tripura), 27 June, 2021: Holy Spirit Catholic Church in collaboration with ‘Oisho Bani Society’ a NGO, planted 500 saplings in 8 villages in Ambassa Sub-Division.
This is a story of fr. Jacek Gniadek SVD and Liu, a Chinese migrant, during the coronavirus lockdown in Poland. I translated this story from Polish to English. Originally he wrote it for our Polish SVD magazine “Komunikaty”. Touching, unbelievable and a true story that happened recently.
