AT MISSIO Scotland we take great joy in many aspects of our work. Supporting projects is an obvious one. Making lifelong connections is another. Spreading the Good News, however, is at the core of every single member of the Pontifical Mission Societies throughout the world and is not something that merely gives joy to those in mission countries and territories throughout the world, but also allows us to receive joy in return too.

Sr Hedwig Vinyo has a desire to spread the Good News in the most trying of circumstances and build connections in the universal Church.

1969 was quite a year! I was 21 and I wrote a diary of my 10-week visit to Africa, which I have just reopened after 54 years!

THROUGHOUT the world, Catholic missionaries often work in the most trying of circumstances and Ethiopia is no different. The country is...

IN OCTOBER 1984, BBC newsreader Michael Buerk’s powerful report on the famine in Ethiopia shone a light on the tragic situation taking...

Sister Placida McCann has brought joy wherever she has been—be that in the US, Kenya or Rome.

A FEW years ago, Missio Scotland had the privilege of supporting Scottish-born Sister Placida McCann and her fellow Franciscan Sisters of...