Daniel Comboni
Comboni Missionaries
Institutional area
Other links
Newsletter
Comboni missionaries in Ethiopia launch new website
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
The Comboni missionaries in Ethiopia have launched their new website. Conceived and implemented by the team of the Comboni Youth Centre (YCC) in Hawassa, the new online page was presented to the Provincial Assembly last March and the Provincial Council approved it, thus expressing the ‘yes’ of the entire province to this new kind of missionary presence on the Internet, a veritable ‘sixth continent’, which should be considered not a threat but a huge opportunity. [To access the web page, click here]
“The initiative of a website of the Ethiopian Province is nothing new,” explained Father Pedro Pablo Hernández, one of the missionaries involved in its realisation. “Some years ago, there was one, but it disappeared for different reasons.”
He added: “The purpose of the initiative is to ensure that future visitors to this new website can both learn about the rich witness of life offered by the Comboni Missionaries in terms of pastoral service, and receive inspiration from their specific vision of mission, with a view to active participation in the work of evangelisation of the Church.”
The website has two main sections: a) news, regularly updated, and b) information that remains available for longer.
The news page is divided into: missionary news, both world and Ethiopian news; life testimonies; prayer intentions; Ethiopian literature (proverbs, fables and stories). Visitors to this page can leave comments and prayer requests.
The ‘information’ page will contain articles on St Daniel Comboni, the founder of the Comboni Missionaries, on the history of the Comboni Missionaries in the world and in Ethiopia, on the work of the Provincial Secretariats (Mission and Formation) and on Vocations.
The section ‘The Combon Missionaries in Ethiopia’ offers a rich photo gallery and the presentation of the works published by the missionaries, in over six decades of presence in Ethiopia, in various local languages (Amharic, Sidama, Guji, Gedeo and Gumuz).
The concluding document of the First Session of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (4-29 October 2023), entitled ‘Synthesis Report – A Synodal Church in Mission’, defines the ‘online space’ as “the new digital missionary frontier.”
Father Joe Vieira, mccj