Opus Dei

A number of Spanish schools have been taking part in Harambee scholarship projects.

We see them. They fight in the streets, they beg, they wash cars. We see the mothers with babies and babies without mothers. We see old and young, clean and dirty alike. We see them leaning on our cars, some blind, others on wheel chairs. We see them. They fight in the streets, they beg, they wash cars. We see the mothers with babies and babies without mothers.

"Visiting prisoners has been for many of us not only an act of mercy, but a humanising experience of stepping into a world, like our own, in need of redemption."

​Antoinette Kankindi, Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at Strathmore University (Kenya) has been awarded the Harambee 2017 Prize for the Promotion and Equality of the African Woman for her project “African Women Leadership”, an initiative aiming at “unveiling the leadership” of women of her continent, “without letting anyone fall behind”.

The Harambee Project Chef to Chef 2017 took place in Madrid, Spain, this year within the framework of Madrid Fusión, an International Gastronomy Summit, involving the most important chefs in the world.

The eleven videos in this series on the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, offered each month during the Jubilee Year of Mercy, can now be accessed on a single page.

“Being a mother in my country requires a lot of sacrifice," said Dr. Celine Tendobi, gynecologist at Monkole Hospital in Kinshasa, during a recent conference held at the University of Navarra.

The final video in the series on the works of mercy, for the Jubilee Year of Mercy.

St. John Eudes Rehabilitation Centre was put up in 2001 by the Catholic diocese of Kitui to cater for street children in Kitui and neighbouring counties. The centre takes in both boys and girls and has an accommodation capacity of 65.

Small gestures and steps can be a good way to begin showing mercy to others. A new video in the series on the works of mercy, for the Jubilee of Mercy.