Life Network Foundation announces new Residential Home Units for mothers and toddlers, providing further support for women in need.

This new initiative provides ongoing support for mothers and their toddlers after moving out of the maternity home, Dar Tgħanniqa Ta’ Omm, where pregnant women and newborn babies live with 24-hour support and attention for up to one year.

The Residential Home Units will provide a secure home environment allowing the women to work or pursue further education… Read more »

Pope Francis goes to confession during a Lenten penance service in St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican March 25, 2022, as part of the “24 Hours for the Lord” Lenten prayer initiative. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope Francis will open the eleventh edition of the ’24 Hours for the Lord’ Lenten initiative this Friday, March 8, at the Roman parish of San Pio V, according to a statement from the Dicastery for Evangelization… Read more »

Ċentru Studji Dun Ġorġ, within the Society of Christian Doctrine MUSEUM, is organising a public lecture about Oliver Friggieri and St George Preca by Dr David Aloisio.

Prof. Friggieri used describe Dun Ġorġ as “a man who did not belong in this world and who lived waiting to go back to his place. In the meantime, he tried to drag everyone with him, with the word that was action and the action that was revealed in the word”… Read more »

Għeżież ħuti, il-jum it-tajjeb!

L-Evanġelju tal-lum itina xena iebsa: Ġesù jkeċċi lil-merkanti mit-tempju (ara Ġw 2:13-25), Ġesù jkeċċi lill-bejjiegħa, jaqleb il-bankijiet tas-sarrafa tal-flus u jwiddeb lil kulħadd b’dal-kliem: “Id-dar tiegħi tagħmulhiex dar tan-negozju: (v. 16). Nieqfu ftit fuq il-kuntrast bejn dar u suq: dawn huma żewġ modi kif bniedem jippreżenta ruħu quddiem il-Mulej.

Fit-tempju meqjus bħala suq, biex wieħed ikun f’postu ma’ Alla kien biżżejjed jixtri nagħġa, iħallas tagħha u jikkunsmaha fuq il-ħatab tal-altar… Read more »

Palestinians wounded in Israeli fire while waiting for aid, according to health officials, lie on beds at Al Shifa hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City.

In a statement issued on Friday 1 March, the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem have joined the international community in condemning the “wanton attack against innocent civilians” that took place the previous day in Gaza City during the distribution of humanitarian aid. 

On Thursday 29 February, a doctor from al-Chifa hospital and witnesses said that Israeli soldiers fired on a crowd of civilians desperately seeking food aid being distributed from aid trucks in Gaza City in the north of the Palestinian enclave… Read more »