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Pope Francis: Human trafficking is a crime against humanity

13/02/2018
  • Saint Josephine Bakhita, Patron of the victims of human trafficking.
  • On Monday, in the Clementine Hall in the Vatican, Pope Francis met with participants in the World Day of Prayer and Reflection against Human Trafficking.

  • For the first time in the history of the event, Pope Francis met with approximately 110 persons representing survivors, young people, and members of the committee organizing the International Day of Prayer and Reflection against Human Trafficking.  The theme for this year focused on the role of young people in view of the upcoming Synod of Bishops…

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The beginning of Lent and Mass on Ash Wednesday at St John’s Co-Cathedral

12/02/2018

  • Nhar l-Erbgħa, 14 ta’ Frar 2018, il-Knisja tagħti bidu għar-Randan Imqaddes: erbgħin jum ta’ talb u penitenza bi tħejjija għaċ-ċelebrazzjoni tal-Passjoni, il-Mewt u l-Qawmien mill-mewt ta’ Sidna Ġesù Kristu.

    L-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna, mal-Kapitlu tal-Katidral, ser jiċċelebra l-Quddiesa Stazzjonali ta’ Ras ir-Randan fil-Konkatidral ta’ San Ġwann, il-Belt Valletta, fis-6:30 p.m. Il-Quddiesa tinkludi t-tberik u t-tqegħid tal-irmied…

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Pope Francis on the 2018 World Day of the Sick: Contemplate Jesus

12/02/2018

  • “Jesus feels compassion” sums up the Pope’s reflection on the healing of the leper from the Gospel of Mark. Pope Francis explained the stigma of leprosy at Jesus’ time. “It was considered a serious impurity.” A leper’s “condition was particularly painful, because the mentality of the time made him feel impure before God and other people,” the Pope said…

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Epilepsy: more than just seizures

International Epilepsy Day

12/02/2018

  • Epilepsy affects around 1% of the world wide population with no distinction to race, social background, age etc.  Epilepsy is a chronic disorder that causes unprovoked, recurrent seizures and can affect any person and at any age. A seizure is a sudden rush of electrical activity in the brain. There are around forty different types of seizures which are usually mainly classified in two main types: Generalized seizures which affect the whole brain such and Focal, or partial seizures, affect just one part of the brain…

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The Gospel of the day: 10th February

10/02/2018

  • Solemnity of Saint Paul, Patron Saint of Malta 

    San Mark 16:15-20

    Jesus said to them, ‘Go into all the world; and preach the gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptised will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned. These are the signs that will be associated with believers: in my name they will cast out devils; they will have the gift of tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands and be unharmed should they drink deadly poison; they will lay their hands on the sick, who will recover.’

    And so the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven; there at the right hand of God he took his place, while they, going out, preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the signs that accompanied it…

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Vatican calls on all faiths to join day of prayer for peace

10/02/2018
  • The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue is urging members of all different religious traditions to support Pope Francis’ call for a day of prayer and fasting for peace on February 23rd.

  • Speaking at the recitation of the Angelus prayer last Sunday, the Pope invited all women and men of goodwill to join him in praying for an end to violence and conflict, especially in South Sudan and in the Democratic Republic of Congo…

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Meetings about the collective agreement for educators in Church schools

09/02/2018

  • The Secretariat for Catholic Education and the Malta Union of Teachers are meeting regularly to update the Church Schools collective agreement.

    Increments and allowances indicated in the Sectoral Agreement between the Government of Malta and the Malta Union of Teachers, dated 21st December 2017, will be given to all educators employed by Church Schools and the Secretariat for Catholic Education, once the agreement has been signed and approval received from the Ministry of Education and Employment…

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Two Mexican priests shot dead in ambush

09/02/2018
  • 21 priests have been killed in Mexico in the last five years

  • Two priests have been killed in an armed ambush in Mexico.

    Fr Ivan Anorve Jaimes and Fr Germain Muniz Garcia were attacked on the morning of February 5, as they drove between the cities of Taxco and Iguala in Guerrero state, 100 miles south of Mexico City…

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Have you ever wondered about all the capabilities of your body?

09/02/2018

  • What would you compare your body to? 

    A temple? People would chuckle at that. 

    What about a roller coaster? Enjoy the ride. After all, we might all be conditioned. Maybe we have certain impulses that make us more inclined towards one gender, whoever and whatever we are, but we’re pretty flexible. The body becomes an instrument for pleasure alone, and the body is a body…

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Benedict XVI: ‘I am on a pilgrimage towards Home’

08/02/2018

  • In a new letter, the Pope Emeritus speaks of his declining strength but says he is surrounded by ‘love and goodness’

  • Pope emeritus Benedict has sent a short letter to the editor of the Italian news daily Il Corriere della Sera.

    The Pope emeritus was responding to the many inquiries from readers as to how he is spending “this last period of his life.” Noting the “slow decline” of his “physical strength,” Benedict says in the letter that “interiorly, I am on a pilgrimage towards Home.” The former Roman Pontiff admits that “this last stretch of the road” is “at times difficult,” but says, “It is a great grace for me to be surrounded by a love and goodness that I could not have imagined.”

    Concluding his letter, Benedict said he considers the concern of the readers for his well-being as an “accompaniment” for the journey…

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