by | Sep 3, 2025 | LATIN AMERICA, News, PERU, Uncategorized
This experience marks a turning point in the lives of the young people who come. This is how they themselves express it. The International Mission to Peru 2025 has opened their eyes to the fact that 80% of humanity lives in precarious conditions. Lack of economic...
by | Aug 27, 2024 | LATIN AMERICA, News, PERU
“Thank you for bringing us joy,” a mother says to us in the small interior square of the Hospital del Niño in Lima. It´s where young people from Europe who are on mission in Peru, spend their mornings as volunteers. What do they do? They arrive with some paintbrushes,...
by | Apr 6, 2021 | LATIN AMERICA, News, PERU
Easter Sunday is a day of deep joy. The women and the disciples approached the empty tomb and found that Christ was no longer there. He had risen! Life was stronger than death, love stronger than hatred, forgiveness stronger than resentment, good stronger than evil,...
by | Nov 10, 2020 | LATIN AMERICA, News, PERU
In this month of November, Mari Carmen reminds us of the value that compassion has. God drew up a roadmap for me at the beginning of this year: be compassionate with that same compassion that made Jesus a brother, a missionary and a neighbour. I had no idea that we...
by | Aug 22, 2020 | LATIN AMERICA, News, PERU
During the month of August we celebrate the Feast of the Assumption of Mary. In the West we tend to represent it in a way that evokes the Ascension of the Son, who “goes ahead to prepare a place for us.” We are made for eternity. Mary has reached heaven...
by | Jun 27, 2020 | LATIN AMERICA, News, PERU
This has been one of the challenges that has characterised this time of confinement in the local Church in Peru. Quarantine began the same week as the school year and the pastoral calendar was expected to start. We had to react to the need to provide virtual spaces...
