“Charity is one of the best investments we can make in our common future. On this day of International Charity, I call on people everywhere to be part of our 15-year partnership for humanity, and to help make the Sustainable Development Goals a reality for all.”-Â Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon This International Day of Charity can give …
Lynn Powe recently returned from a short-term service with Mission Doctors in Cameroon. One of her tasks there was to help with vaccinations, including recording them in the UNICEF Vaccination Record book. Each child has a health record and is assigned a number. Child vaccination rates in Cameroon are increasing. In 2004, less than 50% …
Often when there is a disaster in the world, be it an earthquake, a tsunami, or other global tragedy, people will contact our office and ask if this is the work we do? Are our doctors working with the refugees? Are they assisting those impacted by natural disaster? No, the humanitarian effort of the doctors …
Joan, just three years old, arrived at St. Francis Hospital in Uganda where Dr. Lou Coda and Clare Coda were serving. Doctors at the government-run hospital where Joan was staying thought she had pneumonia, but couldn’t confirm without an x-ray machine. They could see that Joan wasn’t getting any better, so they sent her to …
Saying that a person has “hepatitis” is like saying that they have a “bad case of fever”. The first logical questions is, “What is causing the fever?”. So it is with hepatitis. Hepatitis is the result of any of a number of different insults to the liver. It usually refers to liver illness caused by …
As the Father loved me, so I have loved you. John 15:9 What love may look like is different to different people, in different ages, and places. The love a father has for his child can be challenging, complicated, self-giving, enduring. The love that Jesus spoke of, the love of the Father that he shares …
“We are one body, one body in Christ, and he came that we may have life” Â As this Feast of Corpus Cristi, the feast of the Body of Christ, is celebrated, our shared Eucharist (our thanksgiving) calls us to go beyond ourselves. Our belief that Christ is truly present in the bread and wine …
Today is the day we take time to reflect and celebrate on the Christian understanding of God, three persons and one nature. Christianity is monotheistic but radically different from the other two major monotheistic religions, Judaism and Islam. The Trinity is a mystery- possibly your priest at Mass will leave consideration of the Trinity at …
Pentecost Sunday has arrived and with it the end of the Easter season. This is normally when we hear a homily at Mass about today being the ‘birthday of the Church’. Birthday of the Church? While this is true it tells us little of value for Christian living in 2017. However, if we review how …
Aria arrived home from a long day of working in the fields to find her 12-year-oldson, Abdou, unresponsive with a high fever. She spent the next 3 hours transporting Abdou to St Martin de Porres Hospital in Cameroon. Cerebral malaria was quickly diagnosed and IV medications begun. Aria remained at Abdou’s bedside as he remained in a coma the next 48 …