Tag: Catholic missionary

Staff of a charity serving Haiti are pleading for the return of a kidnapped Irish lay missionary and her companions—including a 3-year-old child—taken by armed gunmen who stormed an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, amid the Caribbean nation's long-running armed gang violence and political instability.

With only 15 missionaries left in the diocese of Vanimo, Pope Francis spent his third day in Papua New Guinea, listening to stories from a married couple, religious sister and catechist on why many missionaries have stopped their work. 

Fr Maccalli never doubted his mission, praying for those who kept him captive in Africa.