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Archbishop visits San Blas residents and prays for the conversion of the drug dealers

04/05/2017

L‑Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna żar lir‑residenti taċ‑Ċentru Terapewtiku ta’ San Blas, limiti ta’ Ħaż‑Żebbuġ. L‑Arċisqof iltaqa’ personalment mar‑residenti ta’ San Blas li qed jagħmlu wieħed mit‑tliet programmi għar‑rijabilitazzjoni mid‑droga, offruti mill‑Knisja f’Malta permezz tal-Caritas.

Huwa ġie milqugħ mill‑Vigarju Episkopali għad‑Djakonija, Mons. Charles Cordina, mid‑Direttur ta’ Caritas Malta, Leonid McKay, mill‑Kordinatur tas‑Servizzi, is‑Sur Anthony Gatt, u mill‑istaff kollu ta’ San Blas…

04/05/2017

During the apparitions of Fatima between May and October 1917, the Virgin Mary entrusted three child shepherds with three secrets. The first was a vision of hell that deeply shocked the little children. Since then, they have intensely prayed for the conversion of sinners. Though the vision lasted for only a moment, it was enough to never forget. The greatest of the seers remembers it as so: “There were devils and souls submerged in a great sea of fire (…) between cries of pain and groans of despair…

03/05/2017

Nhar it-Tnejn, l-1 ta’ Mejju 2017, fis-Seminarju tal-Arċisqof ittellgħet l-attività Preca May Day Call, waħda miż-żewġ attivitajiet ippjanati għall-ġimgħa tal-vokazzjonijiet.

L-attivitajiet li saru kienu jinkludu sport, drama, tpinġija, qari ta’ stejjer, logħob bil-kompjuter u anke diskussjonijiet, kollha jduru mal-ħajja tas-saċerdot u qaddis Malti San Ġorġ Preca.

Filgħodu żar l-attività l-Arċisqof Charles J. Scicluna, fejn kellu wkoll l-opportunità jiltaqa’ mat-tfal u anke jiċċelebra Quddiesa fil-kappella tas-Seminarju…

03/05/2017

Over 3,600 persons visited the Archbishop’s Palace during the Valletta Green Festival organised by the Valletta 2018 Foundation, between Friday 28th and Sunday 30th April 2017. Visitors were given a unique opportunity to view the underground vaults, and to admire the picturesque garden with its seventeenth-century fountain and running water. Access to the Archbishop’s Palace was free of charge. Sunday afternoon proved to be the busiest, with almost 1,000 visitors…

03/05/2017

The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences wrapped up its Plenary Assembly on Tuesday with a call for inclusion of the most marginalized in society.

The five-day Plenary Session focused on the theme “Towards a Participatory Society: New Roads to Social and Cultural Integration”.

A message from Pope Francis provided the guidelines for the Plenary. Recalling the movements and the battles for the rights of workers in the past two centuries, the Pope pointed out that “those battles are far from over” and called for a new world vision that has the value of fraternity at its basis…

02/05/2017

On May 1st the Church remembers Saint Joseph the worker, a day marked across the globe as International Labour Day.

Pope Francis’ thoughts in these days go especially towards young people as expressed in his May 1st tweet: “May Saint Joseph give young people the ability to dream, to take risks for big tasks, the things that God dreams for us,” many of whom are faced with unprecedented high rates of unemployment and socio-financial difficulties…

30/04/2017

L-istqarrija ta’ Caritas Malta dwar il-ftehim taż-żieda fil-paga minima: 1. Ninnutaw b’sodisfazzjon li ntlaħaq patt soċjali bejn l-imsieħba soċjali fi ħdan il-Kunsill Malti għall-Iżvilupp Soċjali u Ekonomiku (MCESD), il-Partiti Politiċi u il-Gvern; dan juri kemm huwa importanti id-djalogu soċjali; 2. Dak li saħqet fuqu l-Caritas għal ħames snin sħaħ fl-aħħar sab l-appoġġ; inkluż mil-forzi xettiċi li permezz ta’ dan il-kunsens jaqblu li l-paga minima nazzjonali ma tiggarantixxix biżżejjed għal ħajja diċenti; 3…

30/04/2017

From the moment that the Archbishop assigned me the responsibility to oversee the social and charitable action (Diaconia) that the Church in Malta offers, I feel that I have learnt much. Through my experience as a priest and parish priest, I was aware that there were people in distress, because I shared in the daily evens of the parish. However, today my working day brings me closer to persons who are undergoing some form of distress and hardship…

29/04/2017

In a common declaration, signed by Pope Francis and Coptic Pope Tawadros II, Catholics and Copts declare for the first time that they will recognise each other’s sacrament of baptism.

The joint statement was made public following a meeting of the Catholic and Coptic leaders in Cairo on Friday. It comes forty-four years after Pope Paul VI first met with the previous Coptic Pope Shenouda III in May 1973…

28/04/2017

Pope Francis has departed from Rome’s Fiumicino airport on an Apostolic visit to Egypt. He is due to arrive in Cairo at 2pm this afternoon.

Whilst there the Pope will meet with the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Tawadros II, as well as with Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Egypt’s al-Azhar university.

During the 2-day pastoral journey, he will celebrate Mass, participate in a Conference for peace, meet with clergy, encourage the small Egyptian Christian community in their faith and of course promote and deepen inter-religious dialogue in the predominantly Muslim nation…