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LIBYAN BISHOP WARNS OF INTERNAL CONFLICT, CRITICIZES NATO STRIKES

10/06/2011

Libya happenings

The top church official in Libya expressed fear that the protracted conflict there would generate fighting among factions and tribes, but said he believed a negotiated solution was still possible, the Vatican’s missionary news agency reported.

Bishop Giovanni Martinelli of Tripoli, Libya, also told the Fides news agency June 8 that “whoever thinks they can resolve everything with bombs is mistaken.” Bishop Martinelli has been an outspoken critic of the NATO bombing campaign against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s forces, which have been battling to put down a widespread rebellion since late February… Read more »

PENTECOST VIGIL DIOCESAN CELEBRATION

10/06/2011

The Church in Malta invites Catholics to the Diocesan Celebration of the Pentecost Vigil, Saturday 11th June, 2011, in front of the Safi parish Church. This year, the theme is ‘The disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit. They began to spread the Good News wherever they went. This way the Word of God continued to spread throughout the land” (Acts of the Apostles)… Read more »

ANOTHER ACTIVITY BY RTK 4 CHARITY

09/06/2011

Dil-ġimgħa tnediet l-attività UltraRider fid-Dar tat-Tfal Sagra Familja f’Ħaż-Żabbar. Il-moħħ wara UltraRider huwa ċ-Ċermen ta’ Radju RTK 103FM, Franco Azzopardi. Ultra-Rider hija l-ewwel attività li qed titnieda f’isem RTK4Charity, sezzjoni fi ħdan il-Kumpanija RTK li tnediet matul il-ġimgħa li għaddiet bl-għan u r-rwol ewlieni tagħha jkun li jħaddan il-Corporate Social Responsibility kemm tal-RTK iżda wkoll ta’ kumpanniji oħrajn. Waqt it-tnedija tal-attività UltraRider, Azzopardi qal li l-RTK ħass li għandu jgħożż dan il-kunċett ta’ Corporate Social Responsiblity b’differenza… Read more »

POPE SAYS CROATIA CAN PROMOTE CATHOLIC VALUES IN EUROPE

09/06/2011

Croatia's EU membership

Croatia has the responsibility to promote Christian values and the role of the family in education and social life as it prepares to enter the European Union, Pope Benedict XVI said. In his first public appearance since returning from a pastoral trip to Croatian capital of Zagreb June 4-5, the pope also emphasized the essential role of marriage and marital fidelity in a Europe, which has rising rates of divorce and separations… Read more »

APPRECIATION OF DAR TAL-PROVIDENZA FOR VOLUNTARY WORK

06/06/2011

“Il-Voluntier tal-lum qed jimita l-akbar voluntier, li hu Sidna Ġesù Kristu, li mhux biss ta ħinu imma wkoll ħajtu għall-umanità kollha”.

Hekk qal l-Arċisqof Pawl Cremona OP f’diskors qasir li għamel waqt riċeviment li sar fil-Limestone Heritage, fis-Siġġiewi, għall-voluntiera kollha tad-Dar tal-Providenza.

Ir-ringrazzjament tal-voluntiera hi rikorrenza annwali għad-Dar tal-Providenza, għalkemm din is-sena r-rikorrenza ħadet sinjifikat ikbar hekk kif qed titfakkar is-Sena tal-Volontarjat… Read more »

MAGIS – WORLD YOUTH DAY IN MADRID

03/06/2011

MAGIS 2011 is a festival and action-reflection event for youth, running up to the 2011 World Youth Day in Madrid.

MAGIS is a mega-event for youth, organised by Jesuits and lay persons who also embrace Ignatian Spirituality. Young persons who join MAGIS will find themselves immersed in an intense programme of multi-cultural events, ‘experiments’ and festivities with thousands of others from across the five Continents! … Read more »

REGISTRATION OPENS FOR 2012 INTERNATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS

02/06/2011

Registration has officially opened for the 50th International Eucharistic Congress in 2012, and organizers hope the event will help reinvigorate the Irish church. Delegates from some 70 countries met June 1-3 to hear plans for the events that Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin described as a “vital element in the reform agenda of the Irish church.” Participants at the June 10-17, 2012, congress will hear reflections, catechesis and workshops from leading prelates and theologians… Read more »

CHURCH MUST FIND MORE EFFECTIVE WAYS TO EVANGELIZE

02/06/2011

Evangelisation

New evangelization means finding the most effective ways to proclaim the Gospel to a world that is either too distracted or too blind to see the divine, Pope Benedict XVI said. Today’s spiritual crisis is marked by people excluding God from their lives, “generalized indifference” toward Christianity and stringently pushing faith from the public to the private sphere, he said. The church will have to “find ways to make the proclamation of salvation more effective,” he told members of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization… Read more »