Qualla: Chinyingi https://qualla.com/chinyingi en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Chinyingi https://qualla.com/chinyingi Chinyingi: Introduction https://qualla.com/chinyingi/ Four people climbed into a dugout canoe to ferry a sick neighbor across the Zambezi to the hospital. Five of them drowned on the way. That crossing was one of only five along 2,574 kilometers of river, and it had no bridge. A Capuchin friar named Crispin Valeri decided that was going to change - even though he had no engineering training, no materials budget, and no particular reason to believe it would work.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/t/8/7/chinyingi-wp/kt87-chinyingi-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Chinyingi: The Friar Who Built a Bridge https://qualla.com/chinyingi/ Valeri was stationed at Chinyingi mission in Zambia's North-Western Province, where the Capuchin order had established a hospital and school on the west bank of the Zambezi. The deaths haunted him enough to act. He wrote letters south to the copper mines of the Copperbelt - Chili...

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