By Fr. François Kambale Nzanzu, AA
September 2014

Assumption is spreading its wings as the Congregation officially assumes responsibility for the new parish of St. Charles Lwanga in KYABAKKADE, Uganda, some 25 kilometers from the capital city, Kampala.

« My sons, spread your wings » !

As I write this article, after my brief stay in Kyabakkade, a week after the official launch of this parish dedicated to St. Charles Lwanga, I can hear inside of me this invitation of our founder, "My sons, spread your wings ».

THE ASSUMPTIONIST CENTER...

a place where we learn together,
a place where, together, we discover what it means to be Church.

In order to help that to happen, we need to think and talk together.

And so, we are happy to announce the second of this year’s

CONVERSATIONS AT THE CENTER
on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9

The Church outside of Boston:
Perspectives on Mission in East & Southeast Asia

At this conversation, we are delighted to have Fr. Joseph Zhang, AA and Sr. Ashwena C. Apao share with us their experiences of what it means to be on mission in China, in the Philippines and in Myanmar.

Recently, on October 2, 2014, the Assumptionist-sponsored daily newspaper La Croix published its 40,000th edition. Having celebrated its 130^th anniversary last year (it was founded as a daily in 1883), La Croix today has a circulation of over 100,000. Although Fr. d'Alzon himself laid the foundations for La Croix, it was his first disciples, Fr. François Picard and Fr. Vincent de Paul Bailly, who actually oversaw its birth as a daily newspaper. They described it as "openly and unabashedly Catholic" and oriented in large part to a general readership, although there was a special edition for a more intellectual public. What is remarkable in the journalistic world is that La Croix has never changed its name nor its sponsors and has maintained its fundamental identity as a Catholic daily, one of the very few in the world not operated under episcopal direction.

Frs. Edmond Kisughu, Anselme Wasukundi, and  Jean-Pierre Ndulani, three Assumptionist priests, were kidnapped on October 19, 2012, from their rectory in Mbau, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

They would have been abducted by an armed militia before being sold and then killed by a group of Islamist soldiers.

It was barely two years ago, on October 19, 2012, that three Assumptionist priests, Jean-Pierre Ndulani, Edmond Kisughu and Anselme Wasukundi were kidnapped while at their rectory, in Mbau, in the region of Beni, one of the major towns in the province of North Kivu (DRC).

At that time, no one was able to establish with certitude the circumstances of their abduction, nor what happened to them.