Voices from the World for Mercy
Mission It's the blog of spazio + spadoni which brings together international authors committed to telling stories of mercy and missione. We write inspiring articles and generate concrete actions around the world, promoting hope through works of mercy. We unite words and actions to transform reality with the power of sharing.
Joseph Angelucci
Joseph Angelucci
Giuseppe Angelucci lives in the town of Greccio, the hamlet where Saint Francis created the first living nativity scene. He is married with two daughters. In 2008, he was ordained a deacon.
He serves in the parish of “S. Maria di Loreto” (Greccio), in the diocese of Rieti.
Christian Antonino
Christian Antonino
He is a photographer and digital communications expert. He lives most of the year in St. Petersburg, where he works for a communications agency.
In the past he lived and worked in Reggio Emilia.
Serena Arcoria
Serena Arcoria
Serena Arcoria has been a volunteer at the Misericordia di Adrano since 2023 and has served as its secretary since 2025. She grew up in the oratory, an environment she continues to frequent and which has contributed to her personal development.
In March 2025 he participated in the project HIC SUM in Madagascar.
He writes from his experience in service and community life.
Antonella Attanasio
Antonella Attanasio
Antonella Attanasio is an educationalist and member of the Ipad Mediterranean cooperative. She has extensive experience in early childhood education, adult education, and social inclusion. She works for the Diocesan Caritas of Ugento–Santa Maria di Leuca (Lecce), where she is part of the team that develops projects focused on intercultural education and supporting individuals serving time outside prison through personalized educational programs.
She is currently active in the Intercultural Mediation Service in the educational contexts of the Territorial Social Area of Gagliano del Capo ((Le), promoting a pedagogical approach based on dialogue between cultures and the valorization of diversity as a lever for community growth.
She is part of the advocacy team of the Caritas Puglia Regional Delegation and of the Permanent Table for Human Promotion, contributing to the development of inclusive policies and initiatives oriented towards social justice and human dignity.
Umberto Banchi
Umberto Banchi
Date and Place of Birth: 02/05/1957 Borgo San Lorenzo (FI)
He was a physical education teacher at the IIS Chini in Borgo San Lorenzo, recently retired. He is a teacher trainer for the USP in Florence.
Specialist handball coach, UEFA – FIGC football instructor, CONI Tuscany Technical Coordinator, Trainer for the Tuscany Sports School 2008 – 2012.
In the past Member of the Diocesan CP of Florence, catechist, animator of the Parish summer camps, confrere Misericordia of Borgo San Lorenzo of which he was Superintendent from 2011 to 2020.
He was the representative of the Misericordie Fiorentine in the Diocesan Council of Florence.
Together with his wife Donatella he was in missionand in Ivory Coast, in Bonua, in May and November 2016.
He started the journey next to spazio + spadoni becoming an Ambassador of the project HIC SUM. Today, Umberto is part of the Seniors, that is, those who define the contents and methods to be used for the diffusion of the OPERA message. M.
Every week he reads the commentary on the Sunday Gospel by the biblical scholar Carlo Miglietta to enrich the column “Good Mercy to all!” visible in the online magazine “Mission” and on the YouTube page of spazio + spadoni.
Sister Attilia Bario
Sister Attilia Bario
Originally from Bogliasco, in the province of Genoa, Sister Attilia Bario is missionair for 50 years and belongs to the Congregation of the Sisters Missionarias of Our Lady of the Apostles.
She lives in Ivory Coast, in the north of the country, where she works in youth ministry, particularly in grassroots peace and nonviolence education.
The heart of her vocation lies in the ability to meet and get to know people, embracing the unique way each person expresses and communicates.
Msgr. Francesco Beschi
Msgr. Francesco Beschi
Born in 1951, he has been bishop of the diocese of Bergamo since March 15, 2009.
He completed his studies at the Seminary of Brescia and was ordained a priest on 7 June 1975.
For several years he served as Director of the Family Office and Director of the Paul VI Center; he was then appointed Episcopal Vicar for the Laity and Pro-Vicar General.
In the Italian Episcopal Conference he is a member of the Commissionand Episcopal for the evangelization of peoples and cooperation between Churches.
Rodrigue Heri Bidubula
Rodrigue Heri Bidubula
Graduated in “Economics and Management” at the Evangelical University of Bukavu. In Italy, in Loppiano, he attended several courses in Economy of Communion, Biblical Economy, Civil Economy. Rodrigue speaks French, English, Italian and Swahili.
Per spazio + spadoni deals with following the development of social enterprises for the various projects HIC SUM on Congolese territory and to promote the Forum on the re-Evolution of the Works of Mercy.
He organized the Forum on the re-Evolution of the Works of Mercy in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo, on 18, 19 and 20 September 2024.
Sylver Biakao
Sylver Biakao
Computer engineer, digital and public policy specialist.
Psychosociologist, specialized in developing and improving interpersonal skills and community leadership skills.
Risk manager in times of crisis.
Lecturer at the University Institute “Newtech Institut”.
Brother Paolo Maria Braghini
Brother Paolo Maria Braghini
Capuchin Friar Minor, born in 1975, for almost 20 years he was in missionand in the Alto Solimões, in the Amazon, on the border between Brazil and Peru, where – often by canoe – he reached 70 villages, sharing the life and simple faith of the Indians.
Originally from the Varese area, he returned to Italy in the summer of 2025.
Don Lucio Brentegani
Don Lucio Brentegani
Father Lucio Brentegani, born in 1971, is a fidei donum priest from Verona; he was ordained in 2000.
È missionHe has been in Guinea-Bissau for 18 years, in the Diocese of Bafatà. Since March 2020, following the death of Bishop Pedro Zilli, he has served as diocesan administrator. He is also particularly committed to the education of young people, of whom there are so many in Guinea-Bissau.
He also worked in social ministry and collaborated with Caritas, first nationally and then diocesanly. "Above all, I tried to proclaim the Gospel through my words and my life."
Loredana Brigand
Loredana Brigand
Born in 1976, a freelance journalist with a passion for the world missionAryan.
Originally from Salento, she has lived in Palermo since 2007 with Rino and her daughters Greta and Gaia.
From 2000 to 2003, in Rome, she was National Secretary of the Youth Movement MissionLibrary of the Pontifical Works Missionarias and is part of the national team of Missio Ragazzi.
Today, he collaborates with the magazine of the Missio Foundation “Popoli e Missionand” and with spazio + spadoni.
Luigino Bruni
Luigino Bruni
Max Buccarello
Max Buccarello
An intercultural mediator, she works in the Gagliano del Capo (LE) territorial area on a mediation project involving municipalities and schools in the lower Salento area. Her training and work began during the pandemic, working with foreigners isolated during the lockdown for the Diocesan Caritas of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca.
“From those people without family ties and far from home, I learned to grasp a sense of community that allowed them to overcome difficult times.”
Since then, he has been responsible for “Nessuno è straniero”, the diocesan help desk for foreigners.
Sister Angelica Valle Cabrera
Sister Angelica Valle Cabrera
She obtained a Diploma in Catechetical and Pastoral Theology. During her 18 years of religious life in the Mexican Congregation of the Sisters MissionCatechist sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary have carried out various missionin northern, southern, and central Mexico. He worked with groups of families, children, and young people, sharing his life of faith and, above all, discovering God's immense love for families. "Being with families and joyfully serving those most in need is one of the experiences I most enjoy, and God has granted me the grace to serve in various parishes and dioceses across the country," he said.
He carried out the project HIC SUM at the Misericordia of Rosolini together with her fellow nun Sister Perla.
Father Stefano Camerlengo
Father Stefano Camerlengo
MissionConsolata ario, is originally from Morrovalle (Macerata).
Ordained a priest in 1984 in the Upper Uele of the Democratic Republic of Congo, then Zaire (where he had gone to exercise the ministry of deacon), he then continued his service there working in the missioni, in regional training and leadership, and guiding the community through the difficult transition period between Mobutu and the new republican government.
For 12 years, from 2011 to 2023, he was Superior General of the MissionConsolata priests. Since 2024, he has been in the Ivory Coast, in the diocese of Dianra. “And after 40 years of priesthood, you ask yourself what else to do, how mission“ario,” he asked himself. For him, the most logical answer was to leave.
Sister Ines Carlone
Sister Ines Carlone
Graduated in Economics, she belongs to the congregation of the Daughters of Mary MissionArias. He has a great passion for India. Today he is in the Orient, close to the people, seeking to be a face of mercy and learning from others. He took his perpetual vows in 2024. He is now 44 years old.
Don Nino Carta
Don Nino Carta
Born in Bultei, Sardinia, on March 2, 1940, the youngest of seven children. Having served first as a spiritual director at the Ozieri seminary and then as a worker priest, in 1973 he left for São José do Rio Preto as a fidei donum from the diocese of Ozieri, where he remained until 2000.
In Sardinia he founded the END (Equipe Notre Dame) and is director of the Centre missiondiocesan registry of Ozieri.
Author of "God Invents and I Follow Him," "Love Makes the Difference," and "The Word Becomes Life," he writes every day and shares his reflections in his highly acclaimed blog "Passaparola."
Salvatore Cavallo
Salvatore Cavallo
Degree in Nuclear Physics at UNIPV.
Two children: Giorgio, Teresa, and their little dog, Ettore.
For over ten years, researcher in “mathematical complexity theory” and mathematical models.
A few years at ST Microelectronics.
Author of scientific articles on applied mathematics.
For several years, he was a contract mathematics teacher at UNICT.
Finally, for over twenty years he was Scientific Director of the Eastern Mediterranean University Consortium of Noto.
Speaker at the Convention “Fare Spazio to the re-Evolution of the Works of Mercy”.
Sister Joan Chemeli Langat
Sister Joan Chemeli Langat
Marco Chiolerio
Marco Chiolerio
Helen Chizoba Oguaju
Helen Chizoba Oguaju
He organized the Forum on the re-Evolution of the Works of Mercy in Cotonou, Benin, on November 25 and 26, 2024.
Don Ferdinando Colombo
Don Ferdinando Colombo
He was born on December 23, 1936, in Trezzo sull'Adda (Milan). He met the Salesians of Treviglio and, fascinated by them, made his religious profession in the Salesian Congregation on August 16, 1954.
He graduated in Mathematics and Physics. He was ordained a priest on April 10, 1965. Teaching and youth ministry activities intertwined during the years he spent in Bologna, Pavia, and Treviglio. At the Salesian Institute in Treviglio, he taught mathematics and physics.
In 1974, in Treviglio he founded the non-governmental organisation (NGO) Amici del Rwanda, later transformed into Amici dei Popoli, which allowed him to give concrete help to human development, but above all it allowed him to give life to a form of education to globality which consisted in preparing groups of young people who he then accompanied to live for a month in the missionthe Salesians, a sort of “master's degree in humanity at the school of the poor”.
In 1978 he was sent to Bologna as Parish Priest and Director of the Community in the Parish of San Giovanni Bosco: ten years of pastoral, social and missionarias.
His superiors called him to Turin in 1988 for two closely related roles: establishing VIS, International Volunteering for Development, and being the facilitator. MissionSalesian mission for all of Italy. He moved the VIS headquarters to Rome, where the NGO flourished and reached the entire world with human development projects.
Conferences, publications, educational aids, profiles of missionair for animation missionair that culminates every year in the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Turin in a three-day event called Harambèe that has become a permanent national event. With this spirit missionario prepares and accompanies hundreds of volunteers who for two or more years support the Salesians' human development projects in poor countries.
Since 2009 he has been responsible for the management of the Salesian Work of the Sacred Heart of Bologna.
Eleanor Costa
Eleanor Costa
Brazilian from Itabaiana Segripe.
Graduated in History from the Universidade Estacio de Sá Rio de Janeiro, in Philosophy from the Clarentiano University Curitiba in Brazil and in Theology from the Clarentiano University Lisbon.
Current seminarian in the Diocese of Lucca and great devotee of Saint Gemm Galgani
Sister Fernanda Di Monte
Sister Fernanda Di Monte
A professional journalist since 1991, she specializes in communications, religious information, and women's issues. A nun of the Daughters of St. Paul, she is committed to education on legality and multiculturalism. She collaborates with Avvenire (cultural pages), Famiglia Cristiana, and the magazine Jesus.
He lives in Palermo.
Francis Of Sibio
Francis Of Sibio
Born in 1975, he lives in Frigento (Avenza). He is the director of the Office of Social Communications for the Archdiocese of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi-Conza-Nusco-Bisaccia.
He has published the short story collections with Fara Editore-Rimini Semicolon (2016) and What do you want a year to be? (2020). At Delta 3 Edizioni-Grottaminarda (Av) he published the historical novel The grammar of subtraction (2022). Published by La Bussola-Roma Quirinale, December 31st, 8:30 pm (2024), an essay on the end-of-year messages of President Sergio Mattarella's first term.
The actor Angelo Sateriale staged two of his monologues: Spirit and Wisdom. Canon Marciano De Leo (2019) and Montepeloso 1041. The monologue of a battle (2024)
Sister Francine Mave Ditsove
Sister Francine Mave Dtsove
A nun in the Congregation "Religieuses de l'Instruction Chrétienne," she lives in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo. She holds a degree in Clinical Psychology and teaches at the university.
He carried out the project HIC SUM di spazio + spadoni.
Father Rinaldo Do
It seems Rinaldo Do
Father Rinaldo Do, originally from Valcamonica, is missionConsolata in Africa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In thirty years of missionAnd in Africa, he traveled far and wide across the Democratic Republic of Congo, serving the poor by digging wells, building houses, schools, dispensaries, and nutrition centers, and even buying bicycles. He resisted malaria, Ebola, and the rebel guerrilla warfare in the North.
He received the “Cuore Amico” Award in 2020.
Johnny Dotti
Johnny Dotti
Date and Place of Birth: 1963, Bergamo
Graduated in Pedagogy at the University of Verona, he was Managing Director and President of the National Consortium of Social Cooperation, the largest network of Social Enterprises in Italy. Founder, Managing Director and President of Welfare Italia Impresa Sociale, dedicated to the development of services for families and inclusive social well-being. Consultant and trainer by studies and vocation, he has been a lecturer in various Italian universities. He was Managing Director of “On Srl Impresa Sociale” and President of the “Advisory Board” of Vita. He is currently President of the Participatory Foundation “Communia”, the Network of Common Goods and President of “è-one abitare generativo” He is part of the Scientific Committee of the research group Archivio della Generatività Sociale. Professor at the School of Civil Economy where he brings the experience of social enterprises, both in terms of the production of innovative ideas and change and of field experimentation of new models of action.
Maria Lucia Ercole
Maria Lucia Ercole
She is currently dedicated to 360° volunteering both in the parish and educational fields, teaching Italian L2 to migrants. Since October 2021 she has been writing the newsletter “The Church that inspires – Space for reflection on the Catholic Church today” and is involved in the national campaigns “Stop smartphones and social media for children under 14 and 16”.
Father Angelo Esposito
Father Angelo Esposito
Born in 1973, Don Angelo left Guatemala 25 years ago as a fidei donum of the Archdiocese of Naples. And he remained there as missionair to accompany what has now become his people.
She is currently in Italy for health reasons, but her heart is in Tacanà, where she continues the projects she is carrying out with the Hermana Tierra association and the “Los Angelitos” pediatric clinic, created to care for malnourished children.
The Guatemalan municipality awarded him a recognition "for the great example of missionand, commitment and dedication to the benefit of the populations on the outskirts of Guatemala, in search of a better world where justice, love and peace are practiced."
Gianluca Favero
Gianluca Favero
Editor-in-Chief of Laborcare Journal (an online journal addressing the socio-anthropological, ethical, and intercultural aspects of care), ISSN 2281-5988. President of the “Spazio Etico” Association (a social promotion association). In 2007, while a lecturer in Demo-ethno-anthropological disciplines at the Health Professions Degree Courses – Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Florence, she created, together with Mariella Orsi (in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery and Educational Sciences of the University of Florence – the Italian Foundation for Leniterapia FILE – the Intercultural Association of Women Nosotras – the Careggi Ethical Group for Leniterapia Gr.E.Ca.Le) the “LAB.OR” project: “an Orientation Laboratory for improving the intercultural approach to care work and end-of-life care. Laborcare aims to be an active observatory attentive to cultural, ethnological, social, psychological and health issues, which involve the person and their family members in an intimate and delicate moment such as the “end of life”. Over the years, the Laborcare website has been implemented by many voices and visited not only by professionals working in the healthcare sector, in volunteer work and by scholars of end-of-life issues but, above all, by students who have identified this site as a "place" where they can find useful material for their studies and research, including for writing their degree theses.
Between 2011 and 2012, together with Mariella Orsi, she founded "Laborcare Journal" (ISSN code 2281-5988), an online magazine that addresses the socio-anthropological, ethical, and intercultural aspects of care. In March, together with Marta Bernardeschi and other healthcare professionals, she founded the Association for Cultural and Social Promotion called "Spazio Etico," an open discussion space for healthcare professionals inspired by the French model of the Espace Èthique promoted by Professor Hirsch, now present in many healthcare settings in France. She currently serves as President. The purpose of the Spazio Etico is to foster the exchange of ideas and professional culture among those working in the world of personal care. The Spazio Etico can be defined as a "place" where all healthcare professionals can discuss issues related to their daily professional lives, giving everyone the opportunity to offer their "perspective" for the benefit of care. The "Ethical Space" can be defined as a "meeting place for experiences." Giving voice to the experiences of the professionals participating in this experience is an action that goes against the rhythms imposed by corporate organization. Allowing time for reflection, for sharing disorientation, for the joy of recounting the caring gestures that permeate healthcare work means opening spaces of well-being that cannot be measured by operational performance indicators but are deduced from the broad participation of professionals who continue to frequent this place, which has been self-convening and self-promoting for several years now.
Between 2020 and 2021, during the pandemic, she promoted a diary project called "Graffiti" and "Graffiti 1.2": a collection of sentiments and expressions from healthcare workers, social workers, and members of civil society living in different regions and professional contexts. The ultimate goal was to leave a record of the experiences that characterized such challenging daily life. The graffiti project was first published in issue 36 of Laborcare Journal and subsequently deposited at the Archivio Diaristico Nazionale (ADN) in Pieve Santo Stefano (AR).
Speaker at the Convention “Fare Spazio to the re-Evolution of the Works of Mercy”. On the online magazine of spazio + spadoni there is a section dedicated to the Ethical Space.
Father Oliviero Ferro
Father Oliviero Ferro
MissionSaverian ario. Of Piedmontese origins, he was missionI spent 13 and a half years in Africa: in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon.
Since 2020, he has been involved in animation missionair in Cagliari. A freelance journalist, she collaborates with various publications.
Donata Frigerio
Donata Frigerio
Born in 1962, originally from Como, she began her journey back and forth to Africa in 1985.
Consecrated of theOrdo Virginum since 2007, it was fidei donum of the diocese of Reggio Emilia in Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Father Giovanni Gargano
Father Giovanni Gargano
Born in Salerno in 1967, he entered the Saverian family on September 12, 1988.
After studying Philosophy in Desio in 1990, he made his first profession in 1991. This was followed by studies in Theology in Parma with an experience in missionand (Bangladesh) and, in 1998, the priestly ordination missionair in Parma.
Initially assigned to the Desio House as an Animator MissionVocational Course, in 2003 he was transferred to Salerno until 2007, the year in which he returned to Bangladesh, where he had been for 15 years.
Many know him as Father Giuà.
Father Alessio Geraci
Father Alessio Geraci
Father Alessio Geraci was born in Palermo on June 11, 1983, the only child of Gabriella and Vincenzo. He studied foreign languages in high school and furthered his studies at university with the desire to leave for missione.
After a few years as missionsecular, especially in Argentina, enters the MissionCombonian friars. It was in missionHe served in Peru from 2014 to 2019, and in Italy from 2019 to 2024, working among and with young people. In October 2024, he returned to Peru, to the southern outskirts of Lima, where he is currently pastor of the "Cristo Misionero del Padre" Parish in Chorrillos.
Sister Anna Maria Gervasoni
Sister Anna Maria Gervasoni
MissionA member of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians of Lombard origins, after the first 5 years of religious life in Milan, she was sent to Oceania, to the Solomon Islands, where she has lived for 18 years.
First in the diocese of Gizo, then in the capital Honiara, she has always been involved in the educational field, in the Salesian style. The girls the FMA host every year in the hostel and meet in the vocational school are the main recipients of her work. missionand, although life in the parish is also very active.
HE Mgr. Paolo Giulietti
HE Mgr. Paolo Giulietti
Sister Perla Helena Hernandez Alvarado
Sister Perla Helena Hernandez Alvarado
Originally from the beautiful port of San Carlos, Baja California Sur, she currently lives in Mexico City. She has been consecrated for 30 years. missionreligious atmosphere of the Institute MissionCatechists of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. She was blessed to serve in Spain, Equatorial Guinea, and various regions of her beloved Mexico.
He deeply loves being in missionand sharing faith, hope and love with every community.
A phrase that always accompanies her: “For a courageous heart, nothing is impossible” – by Mother Sofía Garduño Nava.
Martine Kablan
Martine Kablan
Born in Ivory Coast, she is consecrated in the Focolare Movement. She currently carries out her missionand in Belgium.
Chiara Khantigul
Chiara Khantigul
Born in Thailand, she moved to Italy at the age of 10. After a troubled childhood, she converted to Catholicism and began to embrace the love of God.
For 20 years, she has been the organist of an Umbrian parish, always eager to help others with the gifts God has given her.
Sister Hyacinthe Manariyo
Sister Hyacinthe Manariyo
A nun of the Bene Mariya Sisters, she lives in Bujumbura, Burundi. She graduated in Architecture from Milan and also completed pastoral training.
She lived in India for a year on a nursing program. She completed the project HIC SUM and, with the support of spazio + spadoni, gave birth to a Hall OPERA M to offer help to girls in difficulty in Bujumbura.
Father Piero Masolo
Father Piero Masolo
Born in 1978, missionMilanese priest of PIME, is in Detroit, Michigan (USA). His vocation, born in 1999 during a trip to India, changed his life and his plans.
At the beginning of his missionand, he was in Milan; then, from 2013 to 2020, he was sent to Algeria.
In 2015, to valorize the legacy he had received from his family, he founded the “Darefrutto” Foundation, which deals, among other things, with environmental education.
Author of some publications, he was also the organizational director of the second edition of the Festival of Missionand which was held in Milan in 2022.
In November 2023 he left for Myanmar, formerly Burma, where he stayed for a year. Since October 2024, he has been sharing the missionand in the USA in the new headquarters of PIME, in the city of Farmington Hills, where he was entrusted with the role of head of Communications and Development of the Center Missionario Pime of Detroit and Director of Vocations.
Sister Marie Noelle Messini
Sister Marie Noelle Messini
A nun of the Bethlemite Sisters, she lives in Cameroon, in Bafia where she takes care of the Diocesan Office of the Works of Mercy born after the Forum on the re-evolution of the Works of Mercy promoted by spazio + spadoni and organized in the diocese. She holds degrees in Educational Sciences and Theology, and a master's degree in Pedagogical Sciences.
Carlo Miglietta
Carlo Miglietta
Bernard Minani
Bernard Minani
He organized the Forum on the re-Evolution of the Works of Mercy in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, on December 1 and 2, 2023.
Sergio Mura
Sergio Mura
Born in Lucca in 1961 where he lives and works. Always active in the world of volunteering, he currently holds the position of Director of the Arciconfraternita di Misericordia di Lucca and member of the Board of Directors of the Centro Nazionale del Volontariato, after having held various positions in different realities and having been President of the Centro Servizi per il volontariato for two terms. Alongside his passion for the history of Lucca and medieval and religious history, he also has a passion for photography and collecting. He has organized several exhibitions related to sacred iconography of which he is a collector.
Sergio is part of the Seniors, that is, those who define the contents and methods to be used for the diffusion of the OPERA message. M.
Agnes Murray
Agnes Murray
A mother of four, she lives in Malawi. Raised in a large, modest family, she learned the value of sharing and solidarity early on.
As a volunteer, she works primarily with the elderly and children. Agnes is a concrete example of how works of mercy can become a way of life even in the most vulnerable contexts and in the simplest ways.
Sister Christine Mweteise
Sister Christine Mweteise
A nun in the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Mbarara, Uganda. She holds a degree in Theology and a Master's degree in Canon Law. A project manager, she worked at the diocesan tribunal.
He carried out the project HIC SUM at the Misericordia of Canosa di Puglia.
In 2025 together with spazio + spadoni, to his Congregation and to the Diocese of Mbarara, organized the Forum on the re-Evolution of the Works of Mercy.
Rossella Natoli
Rossella Natoli
A Palermitan approaching 50, she brings with her a wealth of experience and a love of life.
She was a flight attendant for almost 20 years, which meant she traveled to many countries and met people from various backgrounds and cultures. "I worked hard on myself, listening to others and observing the diversity and beauty that characterizes the world and the people who inhabit it. Now, with great passion and love, I want to share and bear witness to how the courage of faith and the awareness of being children help us find the value and true meaning of our existence."
Jeannine Ngezahayo
Jeannine Ngezahayo
He organized the Forum on the re-Evolution of the Works of Mercy in Nairobi, Kenya, on August 31 and September 1, 2024.
Sister Gaudence Nininahazwe
Sister Gaudence Nininahazwe
Sister Gaudence is a Burundian nun. Born on July 5, 1975, she attended the Catholic University of Kabgayi in Rwanda from 2005 to 2010. She holds a degree in Journalism. From 2010 to 2014, she was editor-in-chief of Radio Maria Burundi. From 2014 to 2019, she was a novitiate instructor (Mistress of Novices) at her religious institute, the Family of the Disciples of Christ. From 2019 to 2024, she was the director of the Monsignor Bernard Bududira Technical Higher School. She is currently an instructor at the Kiryama Novitiate in Bururi.
Father Gianni Notari
Father Gianni Notari
A Jesuit, theologian, sociologist, and clinical pedagogue, he is the director of the Pedro Arrupe Institute for Political Education – Center for Social Studies in Palermo.
He is also a professor of Cultural Anthropology and Sociology of Religious Processes and an expert in public policy training and evaluation of educational processes.
Sister Gloriose Nshimirimana
Sister Gloriose Nshimirimana
Vicar of the Congregation Missionof the Sisters of Saint Gemma. After obtaining a diploma in Social Services Technician and a diploma in Theology, she earned degrees in Religious Sciences, Human Sciences, and Educational Sciences. On several occasions, she served as a trainer for the sisters who carried out projects with spazio + spadoni.
Don Rodrigue Ogan Akakpo
Don Rodrigue Ogan Akakpo
A priest originally from Togo, he came to Ferrara, Italy, thanks to contact with the Mother General of the "Little Sisters of the Holy Family." He is the parish priest of Codifiume and director of the Migrant Office of the Diocese of Ferrara-Comacchio.
Umberto Palagi
Umberto Palagi
Light Furs
Light Furs
Professional journalist, lives in Lucca.
She is editor of the magazine missionchildren's magazine «Il Ponte d'Oro» and the monthly magazine «Popoli e Missione", the magazine of the Missio Foundation. Among its publications: I was there too! Animals, plants, and objects tell stories from the Gospel from their own perspective. (Edb 2012); Pentecost explained to children (Jacob's Well 2017).
Selene Pear
Selene Pear
Graduated in Social Sciences at the University of Pisa. She approaches the missionand in 2012 with a month-long experience in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which he repeated in 2013. Since then, he has always worked in the social and volunteer sectors, both for work and for passion. In 2018, he spent a short but significant period of volunteering in Bethlehem. In 2023, he returned to missionand with the Sisters of Saint Gemma in the Democratic Republic of Congo where she remained for three months. In 2024 she spent a month in Ivory Coast, again in one of the missionof the Sisters of Saint Gemma.
Secretary of since 2020 spazio + spadoni.
Sister Marinei Pessanha Alves
Sister Marinei Pessanha Alves
Brazilian, born in São Paulo, member of the community of Sisters MissionArias of the Immaculate Conception, of PIME. Having arrived in Hong Kong in 1989, she served in Italy as general director of her Congregation from 2006 to 2019 and returned to Hong Kong in January 2020, just before the start of the pandemic.
In the Tsuen Wan district, he collaborates in the pastoral service in the Parish of Saints Cosmas and Damian, committed to the monthly visit to the homeless.
Don Luigi Pieretti
Don Luigi Pieretti
Fidei donum of the diocese of Lucca, he was ordained a priest in 1971.
In the first years of his ministry he was parish vicar in Torre del Lago, where he distinguished himself for his commitment to catechesis, the sacraments and to the benefit of young people and the poor.
In 1978, his adventure began missionair in Brazil, in the diocese of Rio Branco (State of Acre). There, his commitment missionario lasted for over forty years, testifying to its vocation among the most distant and poor.
Father John Piumatti
Father John Piumatti
Fidei donum of the diocese of Pinerolo (Turin), was missionario in North Kivu for 50 years, since 1971. Since 1994, he has accompanied his people in the construction of the village of Muhanga.
Born in 1938, he returned to Italy in 2021, where his missionand it has transformed but it does not stop: talking about Africa, always keeping attention high on what is happening in North Kivu.
He published “Wild flowers… the scent of Africa” and “Muhanga. Words and stories of Africa” (2017).
Corrado Rizza
Corrado Rizza
Riccardo rossi
Riccardo rossi
Journalist of Neapolitan origins, for over 15 years he worked in politics as a press officer, until the meeting with brother Biagio Conte changed his life, choosing to move to Palermo to live as a volunteer within the Missionand 'Hope and Charity'. A choice shared since 2018 with his wife Barbara, whom he married in 2016.
In recent years, in addition to writing for various publications, he has also dedicated himself to spreading Jesus' revelations to Luisa Piccarreta, contained in the book 'The 24 Hours of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ'.
From March 6, 2025 he will host “Verità di Cielo”, a showmissionand curated by the Piccoli Figli di Palermo broadcast on Maria Vision Italia (channel 255), which tells the stories of ordinary people to give hope.
Paola Carmen Salamino
Paola Carmen Salamino
Father Carlo Maria Salvadori
Father Carlo Maria Salvadori
Born in Parma in 1980, he is the fifth of six children, he is a missionSaverian ario.
Having entered the seminary in Parma after obtaining a diploma in surveying, he joined the Xaverians in 2003, where he took his vows in 2007. He became a priest in 2012.
He spent 10 years of missionand in Cameroon dealing with animation missionyouthful air.
He has been in Italy since 2018 and will leave for the missionand Saveriana of Chad.
Nino Savarino
Nino Savarino
Francesco Semeraro
Francesco Semeraro
A native of Puglia, he lives in Martina Franca (Taranto) with his wife Francesca and daughter Chancelline, whom he met in Burundi. He is an engineer and works in environmental protection. He has many passions, including good food, music, and reading.
He carries out entertainment activities missionair with children, teenagers and young people at the centres of missionof the Consolata of Martina Franca and Turin. In 2009 and 2011, he gained experience missionarias in Tanzania.
In 2017, with three other fathers, he founded 4inzu OdV, an association created to build a home for orphaned children in Gitega. He designed the structure and oversaw the construction.
In 2008 he self-published a story for children set in Burundi: “AMAHORO and there will be peace again”.
Since 2020 he has also been part of the national Missio Ragazzi team.
Nevin Shoukry
Nevin Shoukry
Egyptian, consecrated in the Focolare Movement of the Coptic Catholic Church. She served in the Movement in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Rome.
He is currently in Loppiano to pursue a master's degree in Trinitarian Ontology at the Sophia University Institute. He has recorded 16 episodes of Radio Maria Iraq entitled "Works of Mercy for a Better World," a project supported by spazio + spadoni and available on the YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/@spaziospadoni/podcasts.
Nicole Sifa
Nicole Sifa
Nicole Kusinza Sifa, born January 16, 1994, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Bukavu), graduated in pharmacy from the Official University of Bukavu. For several years, she worked as a chief pharmacist at Skyborne Hospital in Goma. Before the war, Nicole worked at Boldness Medical in Goma, a private facility responsible for quality control of medicines and other medical devices. During the war, the facility was destroyed and is no longer functional. In addition to her profession, Nicole has been involved in promoting education on the correct use of medicines, combating counterfeit medicines, and ensuring access to basic medicines for the vulnerable. Nicole is registered as a pharmacist in Congo. She is married and the mother of two children.
Luigi Spadoni
Luigi Spadoni
Louis-Cesare Pizzi Spadoni he was born in Versilia (LU).
His education was deeply influenced by his experience in a Salesian college, where there was a clear sensitivity missionair.
For over fifty years he has been a Brother of the Misericordia of Camaiore and Lido, and was among the founders of the Misericordia of Lido di Camaiore.
As a boy he worked at the historic Souvenir hotel in Lido di Camaiore, owned by his father Giuseppe and mother Bianca Maria. His parents taught him the importance of responsibility, because “every action has a weight” and “freedom is not a right, but a conscious choice to do good”. It is in their example that he grew up, inclined to faith and hope, to live the present and look to the future with confidence, even in times of difficulty.
He interrupted his university studies to collaborate with a leading ambulance outfitter as a sales agent and product developer.
In 1988, he founded Spencer Italia, a manufacturer of emergency and rescue medical devices. His insights, ideas, and entrepreneurial spirit have created a company that has become a world leader in the EMS sector, capable of meeting the demands of a constantly growing and evolving market.
For more than thirty years, Luigi has invented and patented life-saving equipment, developed markets in every country in the world, cultivated personal relationships with the thousands of people he has interacted with and created hundreds of jobs.
In 2020 he sold the company with the star to dedicate himself to a new phase of his life, leaving a dynamic, healthy reality that is respected everywhere for its solidity.
It is then that he begins to give shape to his dream, spazio + spadoni, a Catholic-inspired movement that combines mercy and missionarity through the relationship with female religious congregations missionairs and voluntary associations around the world.
His private collection of historic ambulances from around the world became a museum open to visitors in 2010 and is located in the province of Parma.
In 2023 he received honorary citizenship of the city of Rosolini (SR) and the Palma d'argento – Iustus ut palma florebit ad award established by the Diocese of Acireale together with Rosario Valastro, President of the Italian Red Cross.
Anna Staropoli
Anna Staropoli
Born in Palermo, she is a sociologist at the Pedro Arrupe Institute for Political Education – Center for Social Studies in the Sicilian capital and a professor at the Theological Faculty of Sicily.
With extensive experience in research and action on marginalization, active citizenship, and social policies, she has always been committed to social issues. Alongside the peripheries, the community dimension lives in every context.
Sister Jacqueline Tabu Lukangaky
Sister Jacqueline Tabu Lukangaky
Religious of the Congregation Missionair of the Sisters of Saint Gemma. She is a nurse and an elementary school teacher. She lives her missionand in Sago, Ivory Coast, after several years spent in Kavimvira in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Serena Terms
Serena Terms
She was born on March 5, 1973. Since 2005 she has been the correspondent of the national news agency Social Editor with whom he collaborates today.
She's always had a passion for reading and writing. Her studies in law and sociology sharpened her social skills, leading her to choose a career as a journalist.
What she likes most about her profession is the opportunity to listen to people, going beyond first appearances: "Doing journalism can become an exercise in freedom only if you are allowed to do so."
Today, he is responsible for press offices on behalf of some associations and collaborates with The Mediterranean24.
Maristella Thomas
Maristella Thomas
Born in Conversano, in the southeast of Bari, in 1992, she teaches religion in the diocese of Turin.
She was the regional secretary of Missio Giovani Puglia from 2015 to 2019 and a member of the National Council of Missio Giovani Italia until 2023. She continues to be involved in this field.
She was also a member of the Office's Consultation Committee Missionof the Archdiocese of Turin and collaborates in the training missionair of the young people of the same diocese.
Author of the book “To love, the voice of the Word…” – How intertwined experiences and lives have taught me about love (San Paolo Editions).
Gabriella and Roberto Ugolini
Gabriella and Roberto Ugolini
Both born and raised in Florence, they are married and have a daughter, Costanza. In May 2000, they left as fidei donum for Turkey, where they lived for 21 years. Their missionand took place mainly in remote eastern Anatolia, in a predominantly Kurdish area and a destination for Afghan and Iranian refugees.
Upon their return in 2021, they chose to move to Ragusa, Sicily, where they work at a family counseling center and support Father Cesare Geroldi.
Their connection with Turkey continues: not only with summer visits, but also in continuing to support what they call “the little school,” set up for refugee girls and women.
Roberto is the author of 3 books: Dost, Street of Wonder e Snow crystals, cotton flakes, which Gabriella collaborated in correcting and revising.
Rita Usai
Rita Usai
Born in 1958, Rita is originally from Sardinia, from Quartu Sant'Elena, the eleventh of 12 children.
Consecrated religious of the Community Missionair of Villaregia, has been in for 40 years missionand in Latin America. Since 2014, he has been in Puerto Rico, in the Arecibo Community, and since November 2023, he has been shuttling between the diocese of San Juan de la Maguana, one of the poorest provinces in the Dominican Republic.
Don Vito Vacca
Don Vito Vacca
Parish priest at Sant'Andrea Corsini (Rome) until 2008, the priest – of Sardinian origins – served as fidei donum of the diocese of Rome in Palestine, Jordan and Qatar.
Having returned to Italy after the pandemic, the priest has a wealth of experiences and memories: from his missionand in Genin, a stronghold of the Palestinian resistance, to its commitment with Syrian refugees in Jordan, including 140 children, etc.
Sister Freeda Mary Varghees
Mary Freeda Varghees
Sister Freeda belongs to the Indian Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of St. Thomas.
A graduate in psychology with a specialization, she also studied to become a family counselor. With the help of spazio + spadoni, the Congregation opened a community in Anghiari where Freeda is now located who, together with Sister Pravina, works together with the local Misericordia.
Don Mauro Viani
Don Mauro Viani
Don Luigi Vizzini
Don Luigi Vizzini
Don Luigi, originally from Rosolini, was ordained a priest on June 24, 1993 by Monsignor Salvatore Nicolosi.
On October 1st of the same year he was appointed parish priest of Cristo Risorto in Montesano, of SS. Salvatore in Carbonaro di Rosolini and assistant parish priest of S. Giorgio and S. Teresa in Modica.
On March 1, 1999, he became parish priest of the Church of SS. Crocifisso in Rosolini.
Since September 15, 2008, he has been director of the Diocesan Office for the Pastoral Care of the Family and since October 27, 2009, Vice-Chancellor of the Episcopal Church and Promoter of Justice and Defender of the Bond of the Diocesan Ecclesiastical Tribunal.
Since February 11, 2010, he has also been diocesan assistant for the Confraternities and since February 18 of the same year, Defender of the Bond at the Regional Ecclesiastical Tribunal.
For six years, from June 29, 2012 to September 4, 2018, he was Rector of the Episcopal Seminary of Noto.
Since September 14, 2012, he has been responsible for Permanent Deacons in formation and in ministry.
On September 21, 2016, he was appointed parish priest moderator of San Corrado in the Cathedral, San Giovanni alle Anime Sante, Carmine and Rotonda di Noto.
In 2018, he was appointed parish priest of the Mother Church of San Giuseppe in Rosolini by Bishop Antonio Staglianò.
He is currently also Episcopal Vicar for the Pastoral Care of the Family and Youth and Vicar Forane of Rosolini.
On January 29, 2019, he was appointed Corrector of the Misericordia of Rosolini by the Bishop of Noto, Monsignor Antonio Staglianò.
Abbé Victor Mbatu Yuakali
Abbé Victor Mbatu Yuakali
Priest of the Archdiocese of Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Director of the Diocesan Pastoral Center for Theological and Moral Studies
Father Francesco Zambotti
Father Francesco Zambotti
Ze Vong
Ze Vong
A young Timorese man born 23 years ago on the outskirts of the capital, Dili, he experienced firsthand the difficulties of accessing education and healthcare, but it is precisely from those social wounds that he has drawn the strength to become very active today in volunteer work and works of mercy.
Father Renato Zilio
Father Renato Zilio
Originally from the province of Venice, it is a missionScalabrinian scholar specializing in intercultural dialogue and migrant spirituality. He founded and directed the Écoublay Intercultural Center in France and lived in London at the Scalabrini Intercultural Center on Brixton Road.
He is the author of various books including Letters from Djibouti (2008), Words from the Desert (2009), Gospel of Migrants (2010) and God Waits at the Border (2011).
He lives in Morocco, in Casablanca and Rabat, where he works with migrants. A promoter of interreligious dialogue, he sees the coexistence between Christians and Muslims as an evangelical challenge and a sign of hope.
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