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Determination
Here in Glasgow, within the program of the refugee week there was a festival to mark the ten years of democracy in South Africa. Mama Glasgow and our other African friends, opened the Lord Provost Procession dancing in their traditional costumes and were awarded the first prize. Thank you to Fr. Tesfamichael who has updated the news about his most precious apostolate among asylum seekers in London.
It has taken more more then one year for the Darfur crisis to become a reported news. When I and Fr. Chemello went for a Darfur day meeting hosing the ex- governor of the region, we were merely some 20 people, no charity or development agency present and the only journalists were those of the paper of the Scottish Socialist Party. Another newspaper that broke the silence on Darfur has been 'The Scotsman'. Fighting in the Darfur province of Western Sudan has forced more than 1 million people to flee their homes and seek safety in refugee camps both in Sudan and neighbouring Chad. An estimated 1.2 million people in the region have been forced our of their homes by conflict and a brutal campaign of looting, rape and killing by the militia groups, known as janjaweed. Appeals have been launched to help the people of Darfur. See what the Provincial of Germany asks us to do as Comboni Missionaries in his letter. The Carovana della Pace sets off at the beginning of September following three routes across Italy. Members of other provinces have been invited to take part, dreaming up of a European Tour for this initiative in which young people show their determination.