Your Names Are Written in Heaven

The World of Rose Busingye

Davide Perillo

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English

Slant Books
18 February 2025

Christianity; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Christian instruction; Christian mission & evangelism

In the 1990s, a young Ugandan Catholic nurse named Rose Busingye began working in the slums of Kampala with the many women there suffering from HIV/AIDS. Many of them were refugees from civil war in the north, having been raped, beaten, forced to kill in order not to be killed, to steal children in the hope of one day returning to see their own children.

Even though Rose brought food and medicine to them, she often discovered that the women had not taken their medications, so sunk were they in despair and a lack of self-worth. She was on the verge of abandoning everything, when she received an invitation to stay for some time in Italy. It was from Fr. Luigi Giussani, the Italian priest who had founded Communion and Liberation, the movement to which Rose also belongs. After those months spent in Milan, she returned to Uganda with a renewed desire to share with these women what she herself had experienced: the infinite value of her life. Of every life.

Soon things began to change. Out of that change grew Meeting Point International, an organization led by many of the same women Rose had ministered to. In time, new efforts arose, including schools and orphanages-projects that continue to embody Pope Francis's injunction to ""go to the margins."" In Your Names Are Written in Heaven, veteran Italian journalist Davide Perillo tells the inspiring story of Rose Busingye and ""her women"" with clarity, compassion, and insight.

By: Davide Perillo
Imprint: Slant Books
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 218g
ISBN: 9781639821815
ISBN 10: 1639821813
Pages: 142
Publication Date: 18 February 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Davide Perillo is a writer and journalist. After graduating in philosophy from Università Cattolica in Milan, he stepped out onto his path, which first led him to the Gazzetta dello Sport and then to Europeo. In 1995 he moved to Sette, a Corriere della Sera weekly where he became deputy chief editor. From 2007 to 2021 he was editor in chief of Tracce, the monthly magazine of Communion and Liberation.

Reviews for Your Names Are Written in Heaven: The World of Rose Busingye

Christianity is a simple story, made up of life-changing encounters. Like the story of Rose, which Davide Perillo recounts in a book full of reality and emotion. -Maurizio Crippa, Il Foglio The story told in this book seems to me a cheerful testimony of the ""Church that goes out,"" that Pope Francis never tires of indicating, as the way to respond with life to the unlimited need of people today, who are so in need of the Gospel. Who would not desire to have people like Rose and her women constantly next to them, to go to the ends of the earth and shout to everyone, through the materiality of their own existence, ""you have an infinite value""? -Julián Carrón, Professor of Theology, The Catholic University of the Sacred Heart The story of Rose Busingye, nurse and member of Communion and Liberation, is a punch to the gut that makes you think about the complex relationship between religion and international cooperation. -Domani