by vf-editor | 2024/01/28 | "13 Stories"
In the middle of the sea, a father and a four-year-old girl huddle together on a small boat that won’t stop letting water in. A father who doesn’t give up even though his world, his family, and the doctors seem to have abandoned him to his fate: Kadija, the...
by vf-editor | 2022/03/17 | English, News
To all the confreres of the Congregation of the Mission “UKRAINE IS CRYING AGAIN” Dear confreres, May the grace and peace of Jesus be always with us! A Ukrainian Orthodox priest, Alexi Pelipenko, who later converted to Catholicism, wrote a book after World War II...
by Anja Bohnsack | 2019/12/19 | English, News, Stories
It was freezing. I had just stepped out from the warm embrace of my hotel and needed a moment to adjust to the cold now filling my lungs. It was a wonderful day. Blue skies and winter sun. A thin layer of ice paved the road, some spots of frozen old snow here and...
by vf-editor | 2019/12/10 | English, News
On the 7th of December, people around the world joined in an enormous act of global solidarity to support people who have no choice but to sleep on the streets. From Los Angeles to London; from New Delhi to Manila and Brisbane, people slept out for one night to raise...