News from the Church in Malta
Sunday, 1 September, marks 80 years since the outbreak of the Second World War.
On that day in 1939, Germany invaded Poland, leading Britain and France to declare war on Adolf Hitler’s Nazi state, two days later.
Pope Francis recalled that tragic day on Wednesday, as well as the commemorations to be held in Warsaw, Wielun, and other Polish cities…
Pope Francis expresses his appreciation for a new committee set up in the United Arab Emirates to promote the ideals contained in the Document on Human Fraternity.
Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayyeb, signed the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together in Abu Dhabi in February 2019…
It-Tnejn 26 ta’ Awwissu 2019, il-Kummissjoni Djoċesana Tfal organizzat attività ta’ tindif ħdejn il-baħar. Madwar 20 tifel u tifla, flimkien mal-mexxejja tagħhom, inġabru waranofsinhar fil-Bajja ta’ San Tumas f’Wied il-Għajn.
Hemmhekk ġabru skart li kien mormi fir-ramel tal-bajja, fuq il-blat ta’ biswit, u fit-triq ta’ maġenbha. Wara din l-attività, il-membri tal-kummissjoni u dawk kollha preżenti niżlu jgħumu f’ambjent iktar nadif milli sabuħ…
Il-Ħadd, 26 ta’ Awwissu 2019, l-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi ċċelebra Quddiesa fil-festa ta’ San Ġiljan, fil-knisja parrokkjali tal-istess parroċċa. Il-paniġierku ntiseġ mill-Kan. David Cilia. Preżenti kien hemm ukoll komunità ta’ Nsara pellegrini mill-Ukrajna, fosthom żewġ qassisin li kkonċelebraw fil-quddiesa. Fi tmiemha huma tawh ikona tal-qaddis patrun tagħhom bħala tifkira tal-okkażjoni.
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At the Angelus on Sunday, Pope Francis noted the universal concern for the “vast fires” that are raging throughout the Amazon region. The Holy Father prayed that, “with the commitment of all,” the fires “might be contained as soon as possible.”
“That forest lung is vital for our planet,” the Pope said…
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference issues a statement calling for the development of a “Christian spirituality of ecology” which begins in personal and family life.
In the opening lines of his encyclical on the environment, Laudato sì, Pope Francis describes the earth as “burdened and laid waste, among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor”.
Urgency
In their statement, the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales return to that encyclical as they highlight the urgency of the current environmental crisis. The earth, they write, “cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our own irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her.”
The Bishops go on to outline the extent of the ecological crisis, and to suggest a Catholic response…
The Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean (CELAM) express their deep concern for destructive fires burning the world’s forests.
The “seriousness” of the fires currently raging in Alaska, Siberia, Greenland, the Canary Islands, and “in particular, the Amazon” is not only local, say the Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean. It is “of planetary proportions”…
Rejecting violence, promoting interreligious harmony, caring for the environment and stamping out government corruption are expected to be high on the agenda September 4-10 when Pope Francis visits Mozambique, Madagascar and Mauritius.
“The pope’s very presence will be his principle message to the people of Mozambique,” said Father Giorgio Ferretti, an Italian missionary and pastor of the cathedral in Maputo, Mozambique…
Illum qed jiġi ċelebrat għall-ewwel darba l-jum internazzjonali li jfakkar il-vittmi ta’ atti ta’ vjolenza minħabba r-reliġjon jew twemmin, wara li ġie rikonoxxut uffiċjalment waqt l-Assemblea Ġenerali tal-Ġnus Magħquda f’Mejju li għadda.
F’intervista fuq 103FM, l-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi tkellem dwar l-importanza ta’ din il-ġurnata biex tkabbar l-għarfien dwar il-qagħda ta’ dawk in-nies li huma ppersegwitati madwar id-dinja…
