Your Names Are Written in Heaven

In the 1990s, a young UgandanCatholic nurse named Rose Busingye began working in the slums of Kampala withthe many women there suffering from HIV/AIDS. Many of them were refugees fromcivil war in the north, having been raped, beaten, forced to kill in order notto be killed, to steal children in the hope of one day returning to see theirown children.Even though Rose brought food andmedicine to them, she often discovered that the women had not taken theirmedications, so sunk were they in despair and a lack of self-worth. She was onthe verge of abandoning everything, when she received an invitation to stay forsome time in Italy. It was from Fr. Luigi Giussani, the Italian priest who hadfounded Communion and Liberation, the movement to which Rose also belongs. Afterthose months spent in Milan, she returned to Uganda with a renewed desire toshare with these women what she herself had experienced: the infinite value ofher life. Of every life.Soon things began to change. Outof that change grew Meeting Point International, an organization led by many ofthe same women Rose had ministered to. In time, new efforts arose, includingschools and orphanagesprojects that continue to embody Pope Francissinjunction to go to the margins. In Your Names Are Written in Heaven,veteran Italian journalist Davide Perillo tells the inspiring story of RoseBusingye and her women with clarity, compassion, and insight.