Waldensian Church Missions for the encouragement and support they gave me in order for me to be able to proceed on my path towards ministry .
Kassim Conteh
Riesi : How to Define as an Outsider a Reality as Complex as it is Fascinating ?
Before arriving with my wife Noemi in this town of 10,000 inhabitants , I had already heard a lot about Riesi , but the curious thing is that the various stories failed to form a homogeneous puzzle , and now that I have been here for just over a month I understand why . Riesi is not just a town that once orbited around the sulphur mine ; it is not just a small town in the Sicilian hinterland ; it is not just the town where Vinay arrived , nor is it just the town that sur-
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