May 27, 2020 | Local
Amid lockdown, Father Bassano mrelies on Nile Radio Father Michael Bassano, a Binghamton native, is praying for God’s protection from COVID-19 for the people in the crowded displaced-persons camp where…
Dec 19, 2018 | Local
…from South Sudan. Maryknoll missionary Father Michael Bassano, who grew up in Binghamton, called the Sun from the United Nations Protection of Civilians (POC) Camp outside Malakal, on the east…
Feb 12, 2020 | Local
By Tom Maguire | Associate editor Father Michael Bassano, a Binghamton native, has sent along a new poem as he continues his Maryknoll missionary service in South Sudan. Father Bassano…
Sep 2, 2020 | Local
By Tom Maguire | Associate editor Maryknoll Missionary Father Michael Bassano, a native of Binghamton, reports “a few weeks of emotional ups and downs” because of COVID-19 in South Sudan….
Oct 23, 2019 | Local
Father Michael Bassano, a Binghamton native who is serving in South Sudan, emailed the Sun recently with his latest poem. A Maryknoll missionary, Father Bassano is the Catholic chaplain in…
Nov 6, 2019 | Local
Father Michael Bassano, a Binghamton native, has sent along to the Sun two poems related to his missionary work in South Sudan. Amid the political uncertainties in a country that…
Jan 29, 2020 | Local
…are members of Father Bassano’s parish. In his Jan. 18 email, Father Bassano wrote: “Wishing you a new year of peace for all people in our world especially in South…
Aug 19, 2020 | Local
By Tom Maguire | Associate editor Maryknoll Missionary Father Michael Bassano, a native of Binghamton, maintains his rituals in his tiny quarters while in isolation because of a COVID-19 outbreak…
Feb 8, 2021 | Local
Binghamton native Father Bassano reports from Upper Nile State By Tom Maguire | Associate editor Praying amidst a coronavirus-caused lockdown in South Sudan, Father Michael Bassano, a Binghamton native, also…
Feb 17, 2021 | Local
Binghamton native Father Bassano reports from Upper Nile State By Tom Maguire | Associate editor Praying amid a coronavirus-caused lockdown in South Sudan, Father Michael Bassano, a Binghamton native, also…
Sep 8, 2009 | SUN September 10, 2009
…God for bringing us together in this home of compassion. With love and prayers, Michael (Obama) Bassano (Editor’s note: Father Mike Bassano, a native of Binghamton, is a Maryknoll Missionary)…
Apr 29, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Sun April 30, 2015
…family grew to three or four families. Elaine Bassano said this of Flushe: “The affection of four Congolese families for Grace Flusche is, I think, the most touching testimony to…
Dec 28, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Latest news
…Mike Bassano, Binghamton native, lives with ‘suffering Christ’ at U.N. base in South Sudan Young boy from Haiti receives life-saving cardiac surgery at St. Joseph’s Hospital Papal nuncio visits Auriesville…
Jan 6, 2016 | 2016 Archives, Latest news, Uncategorized
…under the auspices of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference. Meet Father Mike Bassano, Binghamton native and Maryknoll priest, currently ministering in South Sudan as part of Solidarity According to the…
Aug 6, 2018 | Latest news, US & World
…the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the isolated Nuba Mountains. Read more: Father Michael Bassano is ‘A missionary for “dangerous and desperate” locales’ In 2011, fighting…
Mar 17, 2021 | Local
…remember his deceased brother priests as listed in the ‘ordo’ for daily Mass.” From Upper Nile State in South Sudan, where he is a Maryknoll missionary, Father Michael Bassano, formerly…