Apr 272 minAssisting Another Priestly Ordination(2022) In early March we received an inquiry from a young man in Cameroon, West Africa. He had been ordained a Transitional Deacon in the...
Dec 21, 20213 minNew African Seminarians(2021) Over the years ROTA has had the pleasure of assisting in the support of several African young men who had been studying for the...
Oct 7, 20212 minHelping To Sing God's Praises(2021) Newly ordained Fr. Denning Achidi brought us a request from some of his acquaintances in Cameroon. He requested our support for a...
Sep 27, 20211 minTwo Are Called & Ordained(2020) There is nothing to compare to the joy of making a journey with one of our African Sons as they dedicate their lives to Ministry...
Sep 26, 20211 minRejoicing In Two Vocations(2019) In June of 2018, Denning Batcha Achidi, originally from Cameroon, West Africa, who lived with us at St. Lawrence before his...
Sep 25, 20211 minROTA & FSSB Join Hands(2019) In 2011 at our ROTA Advisory Board had the opportunity to meet Sr. Paschalia Nyeura from Tanzania. She had been in Buffalo for...
Sep 25, 20213 minFormer “LOST BOY” Now A Priest Of Wau, South Sudan (2019) At the end of last summer ROTA was blessed to finally meet Abuna (Father) Kuol Dut, one of the former “Lost Boys of the Sudan” who...
Sep 25, 20211 minROTA To The Rescue(2018) When Fr. Joseph, the head of Communication of the Diocese of Masaka, Uganda had a terrible car accident he put his car into the...
Sep 24, 20212 minA New Priest For War Torn Torit(2018) Who would have thought that a Kenyan assistant to Bishop Paride Taban would respond “Yes” when Bishop Taban asked him to consider...
Sep 24, 20212 minROTA Sponsored Seminarians And Then There Were Three(2017) During a recent gathering of the Diocesan Priests in Buffalo for their annual Convocation, Christ the King Seminary Celebrated the...
Sep 24, 20216 minORDINATIONS IN BUFFALO! CELEBRATIONS IN NIGERIA!(2015) In the Diocese of Buffalo, we celebrated, the ordination of our first African Seminarian studying for ministry in our Diocese that...
Sep 20, 20212 minAFRICANS FOR PRIESTHOOD IN USA(2014) Ever since meeting Fr. Evarist Lubega, an African priest who was on a Sabbatical stay in Buffalo in 2002, the ministry that would...
Sep 19, 20211 minLights, Camera, Action(2013) During our second visit to the Masaka Diocese we had the pleasure to meet Fr. Joseph Kasangaki who was one of the parish priests....
Sep 18, 20211 min2nd Egyptian Son(2009) Do you remember these two????? In the first photo pictured on the right is our dear friend, the late Fr. Evarist Lubega. May he...
Sep 17, 20212 minWheels for the Ministry(2008) When we first met Fr. Emmanuel Katabaazi in 2005, he was a parish priest at the Church of the Visitation in the Diocese of Maska,...
Sep 16, 20211 min"Out of Egypt I Called My Son"In 2001 a young man from Egypt was visiting USA with the Maryknoll Missionaries. Fr. Douglas May, Maryknoll Missionary from Boston, NY...