Friday, December 8, 2023
The magazine Mundo Negro, published by the Comboni Missionaries of Spain, has been awarded the journalism prize granted by the Fundación Cultural Ángel Herrera Oria. The award will be presented on 22nd January 2024 at the Hotel Villa Magna in Madrid and consists of a plaque and a cash sum of € 3,000.
As the note published by the Foundation states, Mundo Negro has received this award “because it is a magazine that it is a reference point for learning about the reality of the African continent and shows how the missionaries of the Catholic Church become the best ‘responsible leaders’ on the ground – a ground that they know directly because they are part of it. This publication, edited by the Comboni Missionaries, doyenne in the field, once a month brings us closer to the political, economic, social, religious and human reality of the African continent, often forgotten”.
The Ángel Herrera Oria Cultural Foundation is named after the first president of the Asociación Católica de Propagandistas, the Servant of God Ángel Herrera Oria, to preserve a lasting memory of the entire legacy of works and thought of this distinguished layman and cardinal of the Catholic Church. It is a work of the Asociación Católica de Propagandistas of Spain, whose aim is to contribute to the promotion of culture in all its expressions, as an example of the intellectual development of the person, his aspiration to beauty and the search for the transcendent. The Foundation aims to demonstrate the compatibility of man’s knowledge, the fruit of research, with the truth revealed by Christ to humankind.