News from the Church in Malta
The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Greg Burke, confirmed on Monday that Pope Francis will participate in the upcoming World Youth Day 2019 in Panama.
The Holy Father will arrive at the event a day after it begins and take part from the 23rd to the 27th of January.
A brief statement said the Pope had accepted an invitation from the government of Panama and from the country’s Catholic bishops…
L-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna flimkien mal-grupp ta’ pellegrini żgħażagħ waslu Malta dalgħodu wara pellegrinaġġ ta’ tmint ijiem fl-Art Imqaddsa. F’dawn l-aħħar jiem żaru x-Xmara Ġordan fejn ġeddew il-wegħdiet tal-maghmudija, il-qabar ta’ Lazru, il-belt ta’ Ġeriko u l-Baħar il-Mejjet. Huma żaru wkoll il-Bażilika tan-Natività f’Betlehem waqt li f’Ġerusalemm żaru ċ-Ċenaklu, is-Santwarju tad-Dormizzjoni tal-Madonna u l-Bażilika tal-Ġetsemani fost l-oħrajn. Il-pellegrinaġġ laħaq il-qofol tiegħu b’purċissjoni b’riflessjoni fuq il-passjoni, il-mewt u l-qawmien tal-Mulej u biċ-1ċelebrazzjoni tal-Quddiesa tal-Għid fil-Bażilika tal-Qabar ta’ Kristu…
Pope Francis has issued decrees advancing the Causes of four candidates, including two teenagers who heroically lived the Christian virtues.
At a meeting with Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, the Pope signed a decree recognising the heroic virtues of Alexia González-Barros, who offered her sufferings from a malignant tumour for the Church.
González was born in Madrid in 1971…
Pope Francis on Friday mourned the refugees and migrants lost at sea and reminded the world that their blood cries out to the conscience of each one of us. The response to the Lord’s appeal, “Where is your brother? His blood cries out to me”, “even if at times generous, has not been enough, and we continue to grieve thousands of deaths,” the Pope said in his homily during the July 6 Mass in Rome’s St…
The world famous Claire College Choir of the University of Cambridge will perform in Malta on the 12th July 2018, in honour of the 600th anniversary of the Carmelite presence in Malta and to raise funds for the restoration of the 16th century Oratory of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Valletta.
The choir, which previously gave a very successful tour of Malta in 2014, will be performing numerous pieces of music which reflect church music over the centuries…
Pope Francis on Thursday named Doctor Paolo Ruffini as the new Prefect for the Dicastery for Communication. Dr Ruffini has been serving as Director of the television station of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, TV2000.
Biographical information
Paolo Ruffini was born in Palermo, Sicily, on 4 October 1956.
He attained his degree in Jurisprudence from La Sapienza University of Rome…
Bħalissa, l-Arcisqof Charles J. Scicluna u grupp ta’ 28 żagħżugħ u żagħżugħa jinsabu waqt pellegrinaġġ fl-Art Imqaddsa u qed iżuru l‑aktar postijiet sagri u importanti għall‑fidi Nisranija. Il-pellegrinaġġ beda nhar it-Tnejn li għadda u l-grupp żar postijiet bħall-Bażilika tal-Lunzjata, fejn l-anġlu Gabrijel ħabbar lil Marija li ser issir Omm Alla, id-dar ta’ San Ġużepp f’Nazaret u tela’ wkoll fuq il-Muntanja Tabor fejn għamlu mument ta’ talb u riflessjoni fuq it-trasfigurazzjoni ta’ Ġesù…
Since 2014 international charity organization Aid to the Church in Need has spent some 40 million euros [$46.6 million] funding relief and reconstruction efforts in Iraq, with the majority of support going toward basic needs such as housing.
However, according to Thomas Heine-Geldem, executive president of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), now that the international community chipping in to rebuild Christian villages destroyed when ISIS took over the Nineveh Plains in 2014, the organization’s primary focus will shift from funding basic reconstruction to restoring religious structures such as churches and monasteries, many of which were desecrated and burned under ISIS rule…
Following an invitation from Maltese bishops, the annual meeting for media officials and spokespersons of the European Episcopal Conferences will be held in Malta in June 2019. This was announced at the conclusion of a meeting held in Rome a few days ago, hosted by CEI (Conferenza Episcopale Italiana). Mr Kevin Papagiorcopolo, the Archbishop’s Delegate for Media, attended this conference on behalf of the Maltese bishops…
