Sudan and South Sudan border

Saying civilian lives are at risk, Catholic leaders appealed to the international community to step up efforts to prevent full-scale war from erupting over disputed territory along the tenuous Sudan-South Sudan border.

Auxiliary Bishop Daniel Adwok Kur of Khartoum, Sudan, said in an email to Catholic News Service that tensions between Sudan and South Sudan, the world’s newest nation, could be defused if the United Nations and the African Union would mediate the differences and attempt to determine the proper border between the two countries… Read more »

On Tuesday 17th April 2012, the new Ambassador to France, H.E. Michel Vandepoorter, paid a courtesy visit to the Archbishop, at the Curia.

Click on the photos to enlarge. The photos of the Archbishop’s events may be purchased from PHOTOCITY, Valletta… Read more »

Wednesday April 18 – The 5th edition of the Young People’s Forum is being held at Dar L-Ewropa, Valletta, between 7pm and 9pm. The theme, Education>Integration will discuss concrete changes in the educational system for the benefit of social integration.

The Forum brings together young people with a christian inspiration and from a wide spectrum of social interests… Read more »

Sacred Scripture

The annual plenary session of the Pontifical Biblical Commission began Monday and will run through Friday at the “Domus Sanctae Marthae” inside Vatican City under the presidency of Cardinal William Joseph Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Jesuit Father Klemens Stock, secretary general of the commission, is chairing the session. The participants will continue their reflections on the theme of “Inspiration and Truth in the Bible.”

As a first stage in its examination of this subject, the commission has chosen to focus attention on the way in which inspiration and truth appear in sacred Scripture… Read more »

The Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity is just one of the many people congratulating Pope Benedict XVI on his 85th birthday. Bishop Brian Farrell said his Council “is very much impressed and close to the Holy Father in these days as he celebrates these important moments in his life.”
In thanking the Pope for his pastoral leadership in the search for unity among all Christians around the world, Bishop Farrell said he hoped the upcoming Eucharistic Congress in Dublin, Ireland this June “will be a moment of deep reflection on the process through which the Church in Ireland and in many other countries of the world is passing as it seeks to bring new answers to the difficulties that arise and the situations that make it hard for people today to give time and input to the spiritual element of their lives.”

More wishes…“We wish the Holy Father a happy birthday,” said the Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Francis Arinze… Read more »

On Friday 20th April 2012, a conference about ‘Henry and Inez Casolani – Servants of God in the Family’ will be held at the Catholic Institute at 7.00 p.m. The main speaker will be Mgr Charles Cordina, whilst Dr Robert Xuereb, Cardiologist and Dr Christopher Gruppetta LL.D will be sharing their experiences. The St Angela Merici Choir of the Ursuline Sisters will also be participating… Read more »