Missio Malta National Director Rev. Victor Agius attended the Annual General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Rome, last month. The annual meeting is attended by 120 National Directors from all Pontifical Mission Societies from around the world to discuss matters of policy and strategy related to the operation of the world-wide organisation.

This year, the theme centred around the importance of evangelisation as part of every Christian’s everyday life… Read more »

The BOV Volleyball Marathon ended at midnight Sunday but not before raising the sum of €366,817.

Forty players went through fifty-three hours of volleyball that was officially whistled in at six in the evening on Friday by the Minister for Inclusion, Voluntary Organisations and Consumer Rights, Julia Portelli and continued non-stop since then.

Fr Martin thanked the people of Malta and Gozo, that once again responded with so much generosity to the call for fundraising for the Home through the Volleyball Marathon… Read more »

The Soup Kitchen OFM Valletta is the winner of the 2023 European Citizen’s Prize, having been nominated by MEP David Casa.

“The Franciscan Friars began operating the Soup Kitchen OFM Valletta project in 2021, soon after inflation of food prices drove those on the periphery to seek aid.”

Casa, who had led negotiations on the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) as part of the ESF+ regulation, said that food inflation was a pressing challenge in today’s economy… Read more »

Nhar is-Sibt 8 ta’ Lulju se ssir laqgħa dwar is-Sinodu tas-Sinodalità mmexxija mill-Kardinal Mario Grech, Segretarju Ġenerali tas-Sinodu. Il-laqgħa, bit-tema ‘Il-Proċess Sinodali hu twettiq tal-Konċilju Vatikan II’, qed issir peress li tnieda d-dokument Instrumentum Laboris tas-Sinodu fl-20 ta’ Ġunju.

Fil-laqgħa se jkun hemm aġġornament tal-aħħar żviluppi fil-Mixja Sinodali, u kif din qed tkompli fuq dak li beda l-Konċilju Vatikan II, li fetaħ 60 sena ilu… Read more »

The BOV Marathon in aid of Dar tal-Providenza is back again with 53 hours of non-stop games at the home’s car park in Siġġiewi. The 13th edition of the marathon starts today, Friday 30th June at 6pm and ends at midnight on the 2nd of July.

An added attraction this year is sitting volleyball which is an adaptation of the discipline of volleyball in which even persons with disability can take part… Read more »

F’intervista waqt edizzjoni oħra tal-programm What’s On Newsbook, li jixxandar kuljum f’nofsinhar fuq 103 Malta’s Heart, ir-Rettur tal-iskola tal-Missjunarji ta’ San Pawl fir-Rabat Fr Clinton Farrugia spjega x’kien il-ħsieb wara t-300 tpinġija li ffurmaw il-mappa tad-dinja fuq wieħed mill-ħitan tal-iskola.

Fr Clinton stqarr li bħala parti miċ-ċelebrazzjonijiet f’għeluq l-10 snin mill-ftuħ tal-iskola primarja tal-MSSP li għalihom kienu “barka li nservu lil dawn it-tfal” xtaqu jagħmlu proġett oriġinali f’liema proġett it-tfal ikunu protagonisti… Read more »

Thirteen people have successfully completed a residential drug rehabilitation programme run by Caritas Malta, celebrating their progress in a graduation ceremony at the San Blas Therapeutic Community on Friday evening.

The ceremony was attended by President George Vella and his two direct predecessors, Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca and George Abela, Bishop Joseph Galea Curmi and the director of Caritas Malta from 1977 to 2014, Mgr Victor Grech… Read more »