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Indigenous leader says ‘Brother Francis’ risking his life for the Amazon

17/09/2019

  • According to arguably the most important indigenous leader of the Amazon, Pope Francis is putting his life on the line by defending the rainforest itself as well as the rights of the people who live in it, among other things by convening a Synod of Bishops on the Amazon next month in Rome.

    “Brother Francis,” according to Gregorio Diaz Mirabal, is “risking his life” for the Amazon, ticking off Russia, China, the US and Europe as global powers unhappy with the pope’s efforts to shine a spotlight on the situation in the region…

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The President of Malta meets Pope Francis

Discussions included the protection of the environment and immigration

16/09/2019

  • Today Pope Father Francis received in audience the President of Malta, George Vella, who subsequently met with His Eminence Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, accompanied by Mgr. Antoine Camilleri, under-Secretary for Relations with States.

    During the discussions, which took place in a cordial atmosphere, satisfaction was expressed for the good state of relations between Malta and the Holy See, and emphasis was placed on the importance of religious values in the culture and life of the Maltese people, highlighting the contribution of the Catholic Church in the field of education…

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The Franciscan friars celebrate the Provincial Chapter

16/09/2019

  • Bejn id-9 u t-13 ta’ Settembru, il-Provinċja Maltija ta’ San Pawl Appostlu tal-Patrijiet Franġiskani Konventwali ċċelebrat it-30 Kapitlu Provinċjali Ordinarju fiċ-Ċentru Kulturali Franġiskan, Birkirkara.

    Matul il-ġimgħa tal-Kapitlu l-patrijiet talbu flimkien u rriflettew dwar il-ħajja tal-Provinċja. F’dan il-Kapitlu, ippresedut mill-Ministru Ġenerali tal-Ordni Patri Carlos Alberto Trovarelli u fil-preżenza tal-Assistent Ġenerali Patri Giovanni Voltan, saru wkoll l-elezzjonijiet tal-Ministru Provinċjali u tal-Kunsill tiegħu…

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Woman donates kidney to ex-husband for the sake of their children

16/09/2019

  • When parents break up, experts advise that they continue to collaborate as parents. Even if their relationship no longer works and each one decides to take a different direction in life, it’s important that they work together to raise their children.

    Dan Pyatt and Kelly Hope had already been divorced for five years when, despite their separation, Kelly gave a great lesson of love to her family…

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Open Weekend at the Cathedral Museum in Mdina

14/09/2019

  • The Mdina Cathedral Museum is a unique and eclectic museum dealing with Maltese identity over the ages. Housed in the magnificent baroque palace on the right hand side of the Mdina Cathedral, it used to serve as the first purpose-built seminary. Amongst the museum’s priceless collections one finds a complete collection of original Albrecht Dürer prints; a fine picture gallery; ecclesiastical and household silver, including the Apostolato of 15 silver statues, once at risk of being lost to plunder during French occupation; furniture found in period Maltese households; a reconstruction of the 1486 choir stalls; the late medieval retable of St Paul, once the main altarpiece of Mdina’s medieval cathedral; and a numismatic hall, which includes a particularly stout collection of coins of antiquity…

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Bahamas: Catholic Church trying to meet basic needs of hurricane survivors

14/09/2019
  • Archbishop Patrick Pinder of Nassau told Vatican News that his archdiocese is trying to meet the immediate needs of the evacuees as well as those who have remained behind in the affected islands after Hurricane Dorian.

    Hurricane Dorian, a devastating category-5 storm, left a trail of death and destruction in the Bahamas, after battering the north-western islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco for more than 24 hours on 1 September. 

    According to official estimates, at least 50 people have died and around 70,000 have been affected.  Thousands of hurricane survivors are being evacuated to New Providence, which includes the capital, Nassau.  Most of them have little or no idea of how or where to begin to rebuild their lives. 

    Archbishop Patrick Pinder of Nassau on Monday visited some of the affected areas in Grand Bahama and Abaco…

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Pope Francis to visit Thailand and Japan in November

13/09/2019
  • The Holy See Press Office announces Pope Francis’ Apostolic Journey to Thailand and Japan from 19 to 26 November. He will be the second Pope to visit these two Asian countries, after Pope John Paul II.

    The Pope’s next Apostolic Journey will see him visiting two Asian countries: the Kingdom of Thailand, from 20 to 23 November, and then Japan from 23 to 26 November, where he will visit Tokyo, Nagasaki and Hiroshima…

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Committee implementing goals in Document on Human Fraternity meet for first time

12/09/2019
  • Pope Francis receives the members of the Higher Committee working to achieve the goals delineated in the Document on Human Fraternity who met for the first time on Wednesday.

    By Sr Bernadette Mary Reis, fsp

    Eighteen years to the day that the twin towers were attacked in New York City, the 7 member Higher Committee established for the purpose of acheiving the goals of the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together met together for the first time on Monday…

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New Council of the St John’s Co-Cathedral Foundation

12/09/2019

  • The Council of The St John’s Co-Cathedral Foundation for the years 2019-2020 is now composed of Mr Wilfrid Buttigieg, President of the Council (centre), and (from left) Dr Philip Farrugia Randon, Mgr Louis Camilleri, Dr Ray Bondin and Mgr Victor Zammit McKeon, together with new Council member Mgr Prof. Emanuel Agius. Mr Joe Gerada (far right) is the Council Secretary…

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Pope Francis’ in-flight press conference: full text

11/09/2019
  • Press conference on the flight back from his Apostolic Journey in Southern Africa: Pope Francis recalls the joy of the children he met and affirms that the State has the duty to take care of families. He says that xenophobia is “a disease” and asks that people’s identities be preserved from ideological colonization. He speaks of the criticisms he receives and replies to a question on schismatic temptations with: “I pray that schisms do not happen, but I am not afraid of them.”

    From the flight Antananarivo-Rome

    Two and a half hours after the Air Madagascar flight to Rome took off from Antananarivo; Pope Francis met the journalists accompanying him and spoke, answering their questions, for about an hour and a half…

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