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Vincent Lockhart spent many years in Cameroon.
He is now a parish priest in Scotland
and is the National Director of Missio Scotland,
the Pontifical Mission Societies.
In the Igbo culture of eastern Nigeria, the name given to a child can reflect the faith of the parents. Arinzechukwu, for example, means Thanks be to God. Some names mark a moment
In 2008, through a mixture of begging and blackmail, I managed to raise some money to build some primary schools in the Bangwa country in Cameroon, West Africa where I
I was once asked to sing at a large meeting in the Paul VI Audience Hall in the Vatican. At the rehearsals the day before the event, I was seated
“Let me ask Google” It seems that our conversations are punctuated by this phrase nowadays. In the midst of a discussion, we pull out our phone and find the answer,
“Sum up Africa for me. What image would you give that would tell me what Africa is all about?”. That is what a friend once asked me one warm
In December 2019, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma and began chemotherapy at the beginning of February 2020. Because the treatment would reduce my immune system to near zero, I
I ALWAYS wondered why Jesus still kept the wounds on his hands and feet and in his side after he rose from the dead. Surely a risen and glorified
MARTIN Atemnkeng was a clever man. He knew what people liked. He also knew how to make a franc or two. He ran the ‘Paradise Bar’ next to the market
EVEN if I coughed the vehicle wobbled, ever so slightly. If I shifted about or tried to open the door of the old Land Rover things got very scary. I
I WENT to Africa to find the will of God. Three years before this, I had cancelled my ordination to the priesthood, got a flat in the west end