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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 »

VATICAN AIDS CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON NEED TO CHANGE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR

01/06/2011

Back-to-back speeches at a Vatican AIDS conference illustrated that condoms in AIDS prevention remains a sensitive issue for both church officials and international health experts. Michel Sidibe, executive director of UNAIDS, told conference participants May 28 that he was delighted when Pope Benedict XVI, in his recent book-length interview, “Light of the World,” hypothesized that use of a condom to prevent infection could be a first step toward moral responsibility… Read more »

EVANGELIZATION’S SOURCE: POPE’S JOURNEY TO CROATIA HIGHLIGHTS FAMILY

31/05/2011

Families in Croatia

The focus of Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to Zagreb, Croatia, June 4-5 will be on the family and building a community with Christian values. In the 84-year-old pope’s 19th trip abroad and his 13th to a European country, he also will continue to underline the importance he places on reviving Europe’s Christian roots. Even though Croatia is an overwhelmingly Catholic country, it has undergone hardships that have tested its foothold on faith: two World Wars, a Nazi invasion and then communist rule under the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia… Read more »