CAFOD Hexham & Newcastle will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first Family Fast Day collection during this year’s pilgrimage to Holy Island.   And as well as commemorating the role played by the women who set up the first Lenten collection in 1960, pilgrims will also be remembering Monseñor Oscar Romero, who was [...]

Food, especially palm butter and pineapple The fantastic West African music especially “Yori, Yori”. The glorious sunshine that glows like a balloon in the sky at night Shaking hands with everyone and anyone we meet … and doing the African ‘snap’ Getting a high five on the way back from Communion People remembering your name [...]

The biggest complaint in all the police stations we visited was lack of funding for transport and basic furnishings. The policemen often don’t have enough money to hire a motorcycle taxi to go to crime scenes, and one policeman apologised that they didn’t have enough chairs in the station for us all to sit on. [...]

Here in Liberia – in this land where everyone believes in something and literally everyone loves football – you get a similar bemused reaction saying you don’t support a Premiership football team that you would if you said you don’t believe in God. One devout worshipper has even embarked on the hopeless task of trying to [...]

Dorothy is a 20-year-old woman who was born and grew up in Gbarnga, Bong County, in the north of Liberia – the place where we have spent the last week. She is the only person in her family with any sort of education; both her sisters went straight into work. She has graduated from high [...]

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