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(2020) While on our African travels, our delegation had the opportunity to visit the school that benefited from collected fundraising...

(2020) Back in 2012, a group of four Western New Yorkers traveled to the Diocese of Masaka, Uganda,, in order to witness the blessing and...

(2019) In June of 2018, Denning Batcha Achidi, originally from Cameroon, West Africa, who lived with us at St. Lawrence before his...

(2019) In 2011 at our ROTA Advisory Board had the opportunity to meet Sr. Paschalia Nyeura from Tanzania. She had been in Buffalo for...

(2019) One of our local refugee families were the unfortunate victim of an early morning fire that quickly engulfed a 2 1/2-story house...

(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...

(2019) It was only in 2012 that four of us from Buffalo made the journey to Masaka Uganda to attend the dedication of the Kitovu Medicine...

(2018) Only a few short months ago Jenaro Aken made a journey back to his birth home of Khartoum, Sudan. Along with many celebrations of...

(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...

(2018) Who would have thought that a Kenyan assistant to Bishop Paride Taban would respond “Yes” when Bishop Taban asked him to consider...

(2018) In one of my visitations with ministry colleagues including my good friend Bishop John Baptist Kaggwa of the Diocese of Masaka I...

(2017) A new Kitchen building and cooking stove, and three water tanks have been the result of $4,800 dollars in donated funds by the:...

(2017) During a recent gathering of the Diocesan Priests in Buffalo for their annual Convocation, Christ the King Seminary Celebrated the...

(2015) In the Diocese of Buffalo, we celebrated, the ordination of our first African Seminarian studying for ministry in our Diocese that...

(2016) “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park features the true life story of Salva Dut who became one of the “Lost Boys of the Sudan.”...

(2016) For the past two years, ROTA has been contacted by a variety of Public Middle Schools all of whom are reading “A Long Walk to...

(2014) Ever since meeting Fr. Evarist Lubega, an African priest who was on a Sabbatical stay in Buffalo in 2002, the ministry that would...

(2012) It all began with an innocent question in a telephone conversation between Fr. Emmanuel Katabaazi, coordinator of Catholic Health...

(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....

(2015) Time continues to march on as Fidele works diligently toward bringing his family to Buffalo to begin their new life together. On...