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The Malta Catholic Action strengthens its commitment to ensuring environmental sustainability

21/05/2019

  • The Malta Catholic Action (AKM) is responsible for contributing to the well being of society and the environment that surrounds us. The aim of AKM’s existence is primarily to be of service to others, according to the needs and realities of our society.

    With the knowledge we possess today about the impact we are having on the Earth, which Pope Francis calls ‘our Common Home’, the Malta Catholic Action is taking action to ensure that the services it provides, impact the environment as little as possible…

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Catholic priest slain by criminal gang in El Salvador

20/05/2019

  • 38-year-old father Cecilio Perez was reportedly shot dead by a presumed gang member while he slept on Saturday night in his parish in El Salvador.

    Father Perez was the parish priest of San José la Majada, in Sosonate Diocese near the Guatemala border.

    His body, with three bullet wounds, was found in his room by a group of faithful who had agreed to meet him at 5 am for morning prayers…

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Maltese Bishop for the diocese of Las Cruces in New Mexico

20/05/2019
  • Il-Papa Franġisku ħatar lill-Isqof Peter Baldacchino biex imexxi d-Djoċesi ta’ Las Cruces, fi New Mexico fl-Istati Uniti. Huwa l-ewwel isqof djoċesan assoċjat mal-Mixja Neokatekumenali biex iservi fi djoċesi daqshekk kbira fl-Istati Uniti tal-Amerika. Mons. Baldacchino twieled fil-5 ta’ Diċembru 1960 f’Tas-Sliema u ilu Isqof Awżiljaru ta’ Miami fi Florida mill-2014. Huwa ġie ordnat saċerdot fl-1996 fl-Arċidjoċesi ta’ Newark fl-istat ta’ New Jersey…

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Appeal for more education about the evil of racism

Stqarrija mill-Kummissjoni Emigranti

20/05/2019

  • It-Taqsima Refuġjati tal-Kummissjoni Emigranti temmen li x-xokk kbir li ħa l-poplu ta’ dawn il-gżejjer meta sar jaf li l-persuni suspettati bil-qtil ta’ Lassana Cisse Souleyman mill-Kosta tal-Ivorju, u l-korriment ta’ żewġ immigranti oħra, fis-6 ta’ April 2019, huma żewġ membri tal-Forzi Armati ta’ Malta, jitlob li jkun segwit minn azzjoni ġdida favur edukazzjoni aħjar u akbar dwar il-kruha u d-deni ta’ sentimenti jew attitudnijiet razzisti u xenofobiċi…

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Pope calls for humble and free journalism that serves truth and goodness

19/05/2019

  • Meeting some 400 journalists of the Foreign Press Association of Italy on May 18, Pope Francis urged for a humble and free journalism.


  • Pope Francis is encouraging a humble and free journalism that does not indulge in selling the “rotten food of misinformation” but rather offers the healthy bread of truth and goodness…

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Pastoral Visit by the Auxiliary Bishop at Ta’ Xbiex Parish

18/05/2019

  • Il-Ħadd, 19 Mejju 2019, l-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi ser jibda l-viżta pastorali fil-Parroċċa ta’ San Ġwann tas-Salib, f’Ta’ Xbiex, fejn se jiltaqa’ mat-tfal u l-ġenituri tagħhom u l-katekisti, mal-komunità Tereżjana tal-parroċċa kif ukoll mal-membri tal-Kunsill Lokali u rappreżentanti tas-soċjetà ċivili. Il-Viżta Pastorali tintemm it-Tlieta, 21 ta’ Mejju 2019.

    Hawn taħt tista’ taqra l-messaġġ tal-Isqof Galea-Curmi lill-parruċċani ta’ Ta’ Xbiex.


     

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Prayers for migrants buried at Addolorata Cemetery

16/05/2019

  • L-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna jitlob fuq il-qabar ta’ 24 persuna li jinsabu midfuna fiċ-Ċimiterju tal-Addolorata wara li tilfu ħajjithom f’traġedja li seħħet fil-Baħar Mediterran fid-19 ta’ April 2015. Dakinhar mietu madwar 800 persuna fosthom tfal.

    Għal dan il-mument ta’ talb li sar ilbierah filgħodu attendew rappreżentanti ta’ għaqdiet mhux governattivi li jaħdmu favur id-drittijiet tal-bniedem. Huma sellmu wkoll lil persuni kollha li fit-tfittxija għal ħajja aħjar qed imutu fil-Mediterran, li fi kliem il-Papa Frangisku hu ċimiterju ta’ migranti…

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Pope at General Audience: Lord’s prayer confronts full range of evil

15/05/2019

  • “Christian prayer does not close its eyes on life,” said Pope Francis. “It is a filial prayer, not an infantile one.”

    The Holy Father made those remarks in the catechesis portion of his weekly General Audience.

    Reflecting on the final petition of the Lord’s prayer, he said Jesus invites us to ask God to “deliver us from evil” because “life is fraught with difficulty.”

    “If these last lines of the Our Father were excluded, how could sinners, the persecuted, and desperate and dying souls pray?” he asked…

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