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The Archbishop’s Palace welcomes over 3,600 visitors

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…

28/04/2017

Mil-lum il-Ġimgħa 28 ta’ April sa nhar il-Ħadd 30 ta’ April, fil-kunvent tal-Agostinjani ta’ San Mark fir-Rabat se tkun għaddejja attività mhux tas-soltu.

Wara 8 snin, il-patrijiet Agostinjani qed jerġgħu jistiednu lill-pubbliku sabiex iżur din il-ġawhra arkitettonika fir-Rabat.

Kull min se jżur il-kunvent, mhux se japprezza biss is-sbuħija artistika tal-post, iżda japprezza wkoll il-ħajja komunitarja tar-reliġjużi Agostinjani, imsejsa fuq il-fidi u li ilhom għal aktar minn 600 sena jagħtu kontribut f’Malta…

28/04/2017

Il‑Knisja f’Malta ser tfakkar Jum il‑Karità nhar il‑Ħadd, 30 ta’ April 2017. Għal dan il‑għan, fi tmiem din il-ġimgħa ser isir ġbir fil-knejjes kollha waqt il-Quddies tas‑Sibt filgħaxija u tal‑Ħadd.

Permezz tal‑flus miġbura ser jiġu megħjuna diversi persuni li jirrikorru għall-għajnuna fid-djar jew fl-entitajiet tal‑Knisja f’Malta. Il-persuni li ser jibbenefikaw mid-donazzjonijiet huma t-tfal u ż-żgħażagħ li fit‑trobbija tagħhom sabu ruħhom f’diffikultajiet serji, il‑persuni li għaddejjin minn vjolenza domestika, il‑persuni b’diżabbiltà, l‑immigranti u r‑refuġjati, l‑anzjani, il-familji fil‑bżonn, in‑nisa li jaqgħu fil‑prostituzzjoni u l‑persuni li jaqgħu fil‑vizzju ta’ droga, u dawk bla dar fejn joqogħdu…

27/04/2017

Pope Francis on Thursday reflected on the fact that being Christian is not a social status. Speaking during the homily at the Mass in the Casa Santa Marta the Pope said Christians must be witnesses of obedience to God, like Jesus was.

The Pope said “The life of a Christian is not a social status. It is not a way of living a spirituality that makes me good, that makes me a little better…