Nothing we do in our Kivumu mission would be possible without the help of our donors from around the world to whom we owe endless gratitude. Good people who have been there for us and who have unselfishly helped for years share our joy about the progress of this parish, which has for the last few years experienced substantial...

We recently noticed that we were running out of wooden planks we bought for our carpenters’ section way too fast. The carpenters use them for practice. They learn woodworking and make their first pieces of furniture out of those planks. After they’ve mastered the basics, they then manufacture pieces of furniture which are...

As soon as the construction of the four new classrooms is completed, we are planning to build two more. Besides that, we are going to temporarily lend the primary school the two buildings which we inherited as a part of the land for the construction of the future secondary school. Let me remind you that there used to be four dilapidated buildings...

During my stay in Rwanda I celebrated my birthday. Given that I was so far away from my family, fra Ivica decided to throw a birthday party for me. We were joined by the school teachers, and we partied under the moonlit starry sky, with drums, by the camp fire. The sound of the drums was joined by the crickets with their chirp, frogs with their croaking...

While I stayed in Kivumu, with my cousin fra Ivica Perić, almost every day he shocked me in some way, but I also shocked him... with my lifestyle. I thought, “My cousin is more African than European! He doesn’t even know how to use the cutlery – the fork and the knife – anymore. He eats everything with his hands, even the sauces.” I observed him...

Na proljetnom zasjedanju Biskupske konferencije BiH u Mostaru biskupi su odobrili i blagoslovili narednu misijsku akciju pod nazivom „Pomozimo izgradnju škole u Misiji Kivumu“ u Ruandi, koju će, kao i sve došadasnje, provesti Misijska središnjica Nacionalne uprave Papinskih misijskih djela BiH...

I was really nervous; everything around me was totally different. But what “shook” me in particular was – the snow and the below-zero temperatures! You see, in Canada I was welcomed by a lot of snow and - 16 (minus sixteen!) degrees. You can imagine what a shock that was for me, growing up in a land of eternal spring where temperatures...