News from the Church in Malta
The ten new Ambassadors come from Switzerland, Malta, The Bahamas, Cabo Verde, Iceland, The Gambia, Qatar, Estonia, Turkmenistan, and Grenada. All of them are non-resident Ambassadors because their countries do not have an established Embassy to the Holy See in Rome.
They presented their letters of credence, or diplomatic credentials, to the Pope during an audience in the Clementine Hall in the Vatican on Thursday…
L-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna appella biex ħadd ma jibża’, lanqas min-negattiv, mill-isfidi, mill-mard jew mid-diżappunti tal-ħajja. Kompla bi frażi oħra, “Il-Mulej miegħek”.
Fl-ewwel vlogg tiegħu fuq Newsbook.com.mt, Mons. Scicluna rrefera għaż-żewġ frażijiet li qal l-anġlu Gabrijel lil Marija: “La tibżax” u “Il-Mulej miegħek”. Stqarr li dawn il-frażijiet jixtieq jipproponihom għal dan l-istaġun tal-Milied u l-Epifanija…
Details were given on the 23rd edition of the Feast of Generosity that takes place every New Year’s Day. It is organised by primarily to raise funds so that id-Dar tal-Providenza can continue to provide and improve on the services it offers. Fr Martin Micallef, Director of the Home, gave details during a press conference held on Tuesday, 11th December 2018…
People gather outside the Campinas Cathedral after the shooting in Sao Paulo state, Brazil.
A gunman has shot and killed four people during Mass at a cathedral in southern Brazil before shooting himself at the altar.
He also shot and injured four others, all elderly worshippers, using a revolver and a .38 pistol in the attack at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Campinas, an industrial city 60 miles north of São Paulo…
On Human Rights Day, Pope Francis makes an appeal to “place human rights at the heart of all policies, including development cooperation policies, even when this means going against the tide.”
Equal human dignity in every person
These words came in a message to the International Conference: entitled “Human Rights in the Contemporary World: Achievements, Omissions, Negations” promoted by the Dicastery for Integral Human Development and the Pontifical Gregorian University…
This year’s Dun Mikiel Azzopardi Award went to Mgr PhIlip Calleja as Id-Dar tal-Providenza’s sign of recognition and appreciation of his work and support of the Siġġiewi Home. After the death of Dun Mikiel in May 1987, Mgr Calleja entrusted by then Archbishop Joseph Mercieca to organise the funeral and to take administer the Home until Mgr Lawrence Gatt was appointed Director…
This year’s Sand Nativity scene and the Christmas tree of Rome’s St. Peter’s Square was inaugurated Friday evening during an impressive ceremony that included Christmas carols, folk dances and band music.
Hundreds of people, including Church dignitaries applauded as curtains were pulled down revealing the 16-meter wide depiction of the birth of Jesus made entirely of sand and dubbed the “Sand Nativity.”
The bas-relief sand sculpture of the Nativity scene is a gift of the Italian seaside resort town of Jesolo, north of Venice, and the Patriarchate of Venice. Over 700 tons of sand from the beach of Jesolo was compacted to create the 16-meter wide and 5-meter tall Nativity sculpture covering 25 square meters…
It-Tnejn, 10 ta’ Diċembru 2018, fid-9:30 a.m., l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna ser jiċċelebra Quddiesa għall-istudenti li jattendu skejjel tal-Istat, tal-Knisja u dawk Indipendenti fil-ftuħ tal-kampanja ‘Milied Flimkien’. Il-Quddiesa ser issir fil-Konkatidral ta’ San Ġwann, il-Belt Valletta.
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L-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curmi inawgura u bierek l-ewwel Via Lucis f’Malta li tinsab fil-Knisja tal-Immakulata Kunċizzjoni, il-Ħamrun.
L-Istazzjonijiet tal-Qawmien, bil-Latin magħrufa bħala Via Lucis, huma l-14-il stazzjon wara l-qawmien mill-mewt ta’ Sidna Ġesù Kristu sa Għid il-Ħamsin. Permezz tal-Via Lucis, li twaqqfet fl-Italja 30 sena ilu, in-Nisrani jfakkar il-Qawmien ta’ Gesù li permezz tiegħu għadda mid-dlamijiet tad-dnub għad-dawl tal-grazzja tal-Mulej…
70 years ago, on the 10th of December 1948 in Paris the member States of the United Nations signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Human Rights existed before this date and only several decades later did the Human Rights movement introduce them into the larger political debate. However, in 1948 Human Rights were declared universal and, thus, became a gift to all humankind…
