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3 in 5 children in Middle East suffering severe food poverty

A recent report by UNICEF, the UN Children’s Fund, says that in the Middle East and North Africa around 34 million children under the age of five are living in food poverty.

3 in 5 children in the Middle East and North Africa, 34 million in total, are living with severe food poverty.

That’s according to a new report by UNICEF entitled Child Food Poverty: Nutrition Deprivation in Early Childhood, which analyses the consequences and causes of food deprivation among the world’s youngest children… Read more »

Pope: May the States of Palestine and Israel live side by side

Commemorating the 10th anniversary of the “Invocation for Peace” in the Vatican Gardens with the then-leaders of Israel and Palestine, Pope Francis reveals that he prays each day that the Holy Land war will end and reiterates his firm belief that it is a deception to think that war can resolve problems.

“Every day I pray that this war will finally end…” Pope Francis said during an event commemorating the historic “Invocation for Peace” in the Vatican Gardens ten years ago… Read more »

70 players train for the 2024 Volleyball Marathon in aid of Id‑Dar tal‑Providenza

Volleyball Marathon in aid of Id‑Dar tal‑Providenza

  St Clare College Pembroke Secondary School

70 players started training sessions for the Volleyball Marathon in aid of Id-Dar tal‑Providenza, which this year will be held between Friday 19th and Sunday 21st July 2024. The players are being assisted by 12 coaches.

The seven-week training sessions are taking place in the grounds of St. Clare College Pembroke Secondary School. This training will come to an end between Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th June with a trial of 24 hour continuous play… Read more »

Pope Francis gives catechesis in garage of Roman condominium

Pope Francis gives catechesis in Rome

  Borgata Ottavia, Rome

For his third appointment of the ‘School of Prayer’ preparing for the 2025 Jubilee, Pope Francis meets an unsuspecting group of about 30 families in a Roman condominium garage from a parish in the city’s western outskirts, and acknowledges that while fighting is normal, to try to make amends.

This time the venue was not a parish hall or theater, but rather a condominium garage with a gravel floor, brick walls, trees and ivy all around, with shutters hiding parked cars and residents peering from balconies… Read more »

Pope at Audience: The Holy Spirit makes us truly free

  St Peter's Square, the Vatican

Cycle of Catechesis. The Spirit and the Bride. The Holy Spirit guides. the people of God towards Jesus our hope. 2. “The wind blows where it wishes”. Where there is the Spirit of God, there is freedom

Dear brothers and sisters, good morning!

In today’s catechesis, I would like to reflect with you on the name by which the Holy Spirit is called in the Bible… Read more »

The magazine ‘Il-Ħabbar ta’ Sant’Antnin’ now also available online

The magazine Il-Ħabbar ta’ Sant’Antnin can now be found online on the website www.habbar.cakmalta.org

This religious-cultural magazine with Franciscan inspiration is published every two months by the Maltese Province of the Conventual Franciscans.

Access to Il-Ħabbar ta’ Sant’Antnin is free of charge, and besides being able to read articles from the latest issue (that of May-June) one can also find resources about this magazine, a page about its history, interesting links and the subscription form in case you want to start receiving it at home by mail… Read more »

President of EU bishops encourages participation and voting for “candidates and parties that will continue building a better Europe”

  Brussels, Belgium

As the upcoming EU elections approach, the President of COMECE, Mgr. Mariano Crociata, readdressed the topic on Tuesday, 4 June 2024. He encouraged all European citizens, especially Catholics, “to go vote and to do so responsibly, choosing candidates and parties that will continue building a better Europe for all. The EU is not perfect, but we want to improve it together using the democratic tools we have, starting with our right to vote.”

In view of the upcoming elections that will determine the new composition of the European Parliament, the Commission of the Bishops’ Conference of the European Union (COMECE) issued the following statement from its President, H.E… Read more »

The stone set aside – Bishop Galea‑Curmi

  The Chapel of Our Lady of Manresa at the Archbishop's Curia, Floriana

L-omelija tal-Isqof Joseph Galea-Curmi

“Huma riedu kieku jaqbduh taħt idejhom” (Mk 12:12). Dan hu li naqraw fl-Evanġelju skont San Mark fuq ir-reazzjoni tal-qassisin, tal-kittieba u tax-xjuħ tal-poplu għal din il-parabbola li jgħid Ġesù. Hawnhekk Ġesù jgħid parabbola li tfisser, fi ftit kliem, l-Istorja tas-Salvazzjoni – kif Alla bagħat lill-poplu tiegħu diversi nies, il-profeti, imma ħafna minnhom kienu rifjutati mill-poplu. Imbagħad, jgħid Ġesù meta jitkellem fuq is-sid tal-għalqa, fl-aħħar bagħat lil ibnu, imma lil ibnu qatluh u xeħtuh “barra mill-għalqa” (Mk 12:8)… Read more »

Notice

On Thursday, 6th June 2024, the Archbishop’s Curia in Floriana will be closed all day.

The Curia will reopen on Monday 10th June 2024. Read more »

Pope at Angelus: “Jesus made a gift of His entire life”

  St Peter's Square, the Vatican

Dear brothers and sisters, happy Sunday!

Today, in Italy and in other countries, we celebrate the Solemnity of Corpus Domini. The Gospel of the liturgy today tells us about the Last Supper (Mk 14:12-26), during which the Lord performs a gesture of handing over: in fact, in the broken bread and in the chalice offered to the disciples, it is He who gives Himself for all humanity, and offers Himself for the life of the world… Read more »