News from the Church in Malta
The Director of the Press Office of the Holy See, Fr. Federico Lombardi, SJ, has issued a statement communicating the Holy Father’s prayerful concern over the violence raging in Iraq, and especially for the Christians affected by the violence. In the statement, Fr. Lombardi says, “The Holy Father is following with deep concern the dramatic news reports coming from northern Iraq, which involve defenseless populations…
Nhar l-Erbgħa 6 ta’ Awwissu 2014, l-Arċisqof Pawlu Cremona O.P. iltaqa’ mal-kappillani gewwa il-Kunvent tal-Karmelitani, l-Imdina, fl-okkażjoni tal-festa ta’ San Ġwann Vianney, il-qaddis patrun tas-saċerdoti, magħruf ukoll bħala il-Kurat t’Ars. Wara ħin ta’ talb flimkien u dawra mal-kunvent, l-Arcisqof u l-kappillani ingħaqdu flimkien għall-ikel.
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In the first General Audience since his summer break Pope Francis resumed his Catechesis on the Church and the People of God, but his mind was also on the tensions and recent conflict in the Middle East and an earthquake in China which last Sunday left hundreds dead and over two thousand injured. Expressing his closeness to the people of the province of Yunnan, the Holy Father offered his prayers for the victims and their families, for those injured and those who lost homes in the disaster…
Pope Francis on Tuesday evening met with more than 50,000 altar servers from Germany.
The young people are on their annual pilgrimage to Rome, which this year has a motto from Matthew 12:12: “Freedom! Because it is lawful to do good.”
The Holy Father arrived in Saint Peter’s Square at 6 pm Rome time, greeted by lively modern music…
Pope Francis prayed the Angelus with the faithful gathered beneath a dreary, drizzly early August sky in St. Peter’s Square this Sunday, the eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, on which the account of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes from the Gospel according to St. Matthew (14:13-21) is proclaimed. It was on the Lord Jesus’ miraculous feeding of the five thousand that the Holy Father focused his remarks ahead of the traditional prayer of Marian devotion at midday…
Matul ix-xahar ta’ Lulju, id-Direttorat tal-Edukazzjoni fis-Segretarjat ghall-Edukazzjoni Nisranija, permezz ta-Kapijiet td-Dipartiment tal-PSD u Guidance, flimkien mal-Youth Workers impjegati mas-Segretarjat, organizza Walk In Service intiż għall-istudenti li spiċċaw il-Ħames sena tal-iskola Sekondarja fl-iskejjel tal-Knisja. Permezz ta’ dan is-servizz, li kien offrut kemm għall-istudenti kif ukoll għall-ġenituri tagħhom, ingħatat informazzjoni dwar il-possibilitajiet ta’ studju fl-istituzzjonijiet post-sekondarji…
The Holy See has announced the schedule for Pope Francis’ Apostolic Voyage to Albania, set for 21 September 2014. It will be the second visit of a Pope to Albania, after Pope St John Paul II’s visit to the country in 1993.
Pope Francis trip will begin with a welcoming ceremony at Tirana’s “Mother Teresa” international airport, where he will be greeted by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama…
Pope Francis’ universal prayer intention for the month of August was released on Tuesday and focuses on “refugees, forced by violence to abandon their homes” that they may “find a generous welcome and the protection of their rights”.
Ahead of the papal appeal the French government announced that it is ready to help facilitate asylum in its territory for Christians and other minorities fleeing an Islamist onslaught in Northern Iraq…
The Holy See Press Office issued a comunique Tuesday confirming the dates of the Apostolic Trip of the Holy Father in Sri Lanka and the Philippines.
Accepting the invitation from the civil authorities and the Episcopate, His Holiness Francis will make an Apostolic Trip to Sri Lanka from 12 to 15 January and in the Philippines from 15 to 19 January 2015…
Since the beginning of June ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and in Syria), now IS (Islamic State), a militant Salafist group, has spread terror across Syria and Northern Iraq and occupied cities there, the largest being Mosul, the ancient Niniveh. With several thousand brutal fighters at present it rules an area about as large as Great Britain…
