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Friday of Mercy: Pope blesses ‘Palace’ for the Poor

A Palace for the Poor: That’s what Pope Francis blessed on Friday afternoon, just ahead of the World Day of the Poor. Pope Francis inaugurated the new Night and Day Care Center for homeless people near St Peter’s Square, as part of his Friday of Mercy initiative.

The 4-storey Vatican property sits in a prestigious location right off the colonnade of St Peter’s Square… Read more »

Church Schools Entry 2020

More than 1,500 vacant positions for students

Ir‑regolamenti għad‑Dħul fl‑Iskejjel tal‑Knisja għas‑sena skolastika 2020 ‑ 2021 ġew ippubblikati (agħfas hawn biex taċċessa r-regolamenti) . B’kollox ser ikun hemm 1,528 post vakanti għall‑istudenti. L‑applikazzjonijiet jistgħu jsiru online jew f’xi wħud mill‑iskejjel tal‑Knisja kif indikat fir‑regolamenti. L‑applikazzjonijiet tal‑ewwel kriterju jsiru f’Novembru 2019, l‑applikanti l‑oħra jsiru f’Jannar u Frar tal‑2020.

Il‑proċess tad‑dħul fl‑iskejjel tal‑Knisja jiddetermina d‑dħul fl‑ewwel u t‑tieni sena kindergarten, fl‑ewwel sena primarja u fl‑ewwel sena sekondarja… Read more »

Pope urges concrete, urgent action to prevent abuse of minors in digital world

Pope Francis on Thursday addressed participants in an international congress in the Vatican on the theme, “Promoting Digital Child Dignity From Concept to Action, From 2017 to 2019”.

Pope Francis on Thursday called on experts in science and technology, the media, businesses, legislators, parents, religious leaders and others to join hands to take concrete and urgent action to protect children from criminal violence and harm in the digital world… Read more »

The spiritual betrayal experienced by victims of abuse – The Archbishop

An interview by John Allen, editor-in-chief of Crux online

  University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

Segwi t-taħdita pubblika mal-Arċisqof fil-filmat (fuq)

L-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna lbieraħ ġie intervistat minn John Allen, il-kap editur tal-gazzetta online Crux, dwar il-ġlieda kontra l-abbuż sesswali minn membri tal-kleru. L-Arċisqof kien il-mistieden tal-Università ta’ Notre Dame f’Indiana, l-Istati Uniti, għal taħdita pubblika li għaliha attendew mijiet ta’ persuni fosthom għadd kbir ta’ studenti universitarji. 

Waqt l-intervista l-Arċisqof semma’ kif ftit tal-jiem ilu, waqt li kien il-Messiku għall-kungress għall-Amerika Latina dwar il-protezzjoni tat-tfal, huwa ltaqa’ mill-ġdid ma’ Juan Carlos Cruz, wieħed mill-vittmi li kien iltaqa’ miegħu meta mar iċ-Ċilì fuq talba tal-Papa Franġisku… Read more »

Conference on Religious Education: challenges and action

  Institute of Education, Pembroke

Fit- 12 ta’ Novembru 2019, l-Uffiċjali Edukattivi tas-suġġett tal-Edukazzjoni Reliġjuża flimkien mas-Segretarjat għall-Edukazzjoni Reliġjuża, tellgħu konferenza bl-isem ‘Religious Education, Challenges and Actions’. Din il-konferenza kompliet fuq l-impenn tas-suġġett biex ikompli jiġġedded kemm fl-aspett metodoloġiku, kif ukoll fil-preżentazzjoni tal-kotba li jużaw l-istudenti mhux biss fis-settur primarju u medju li nbidlu fl-aħħar snin, imma anke issa f’dak sekondarju.

Fil-fatt f’din il-konferenza tnieda għall-ewwel darba s-sillabu l-ġdid tal-edukazzjoni reliġjuża tal-eżami ordinarju tal-matrikola flimkien mal-ktieb li se jakkumpanja dan is-sillabu… Read more »

Armenian Catholic priest and his father shot dead in Syria

Armenian Catholic Father Hovsep Bedoyan is shot dead by so-called Islamic State militants in northeastern Syria.

Gunmen shot dead an Armenian Catholic priest and his father as they were traveling in a car in northeastern Syria.  The attack was claimed by the so-called Islamic State group.

Father Hovsep Bedoyan, the head of the Armenian Catholic community in the the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli near the border with Turkey, and his father, Abraham Bedoyan, were heading to the province of Deir Al-Zor when they came under attack on Monday, November 11… Read more »

Msida Pastoral Visit begins

22 adolexxent mill-parroċċa jirċievu s-Sagrament tal-Griżma

  Il-Knisja Parrokkjali ta' San Ġużepp, l-Imsida

Nhar il-Ħadd 10 ta’ Novembru ngħatat bidu tal-Viżta Pastorali fil-Parroċċa tal-Imsida mill-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi. Dakinhar 22 adolexxent irċivew is-Sagrament tal-Griżma ta-Isqof u wara l-Isqof iltaqa’ ma’ dawk preżenti.

Messaġġ tal-okkażjoni mill-Isqof Awżiljarju Mons. Joseph Galea-Curmi

Għeżież membri tal-parroċċa tal-Imsida, huwa ta’ ferħ kbir għalija li f’dawn il-jiem se niġi għall-Viżta Pastorali f’din il-parroċċa għażiża.

Il-parroċċa tagħkom, taħt il-ħarsien ta’ San Ġużepp, hija parroċċa li sentejn ilu ċċelebrat il-150 sena parroċċa… Read more »

Pope at Angelus: We are called to prepare for Eternal life with our choices

Before the recitation of the Marian prayer, Pope Francis focuses his attention on Sunday’s Gospel reading in which Jesus is provoked by a question by the Sadducees and in turn offers a wonderful teaching on the resurrection of the dead.

The Pope remarked that the Lord does not fall into the trap set by the Sadducees who ask him when a woman dies who has been married to 7 brothers, one after the another, whose wife will she be? … Read more »

European Conference on Catholic Education in Malta

50 delegates from 27 European countries representing 8.5 million students

  The Archbishop’s Curia, Floriana

Madwar 50 rappreżentat tal-iskejjel Kattoliċi fl-Ewropa attendew konferenza li saret fil-Kurja tal-Arċisqof u li ġiet organizzata mis-Segretarjat għall-Edukazzjoni Kattolika tal-Arċidjoċesi ta’ Malta. Il-konferenza nfetħet b’Quddiesa li tmexxiet mill-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi.

Id-delegati minn 27 pajjiż li jirrappreżentaw 8.5 miljun student fl-iskejjel tal-Knisja fl-Ewropa ddiskuttew diversi temi, inizjattivi u prattiċi pożittivi relatati mal-edukazzjoni Kattolika. Huma ddiskutew ukoll il-formazzjoni tal-kapijiet edukattivi u tal-edukaturi f’soċjetà pluralista u post-sekulari… Read more »