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MOSCOW (AP) -- A Frenchman who amassed an arsenal of weapons, explosives and tactical gear was plotting to attack the European Championship soccer tournament and was arrested trying to cross into the European Union from Ukraine, officials said Monday....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Millions of Muslims around the world on Monday marked the start of Ramadan, a month of intense prayer, dawn-to-dusk fasting and nightly feasts. Others will begin fasting a day later, Tuesday, due to a moon-sighting methodology that can lead to different countries declaring the start of Ramadan a day or two apart....
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Tropical Storm Colin was gaining speed and strength Monday on its way to strike Florida, threatening rains forecasters said could cause some serious flooding along much of the state's Gulf coast....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump said Monday it was "inappropriate" for Newt Gingrich to demand he drop the subject of an American judge's ethnicity and start acting like "a potential leader of the United States." But Trump let stand widespread scolding from other Republican leaders who want him to lay off the jurist - a sign that the GOP presidential candidate doesn't want to blow up the fragile truce he has struck with the party establishment....
Superiors of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin of the Eastern African Capuchin Conference (EACC) gathered recently in Lusaka for their annual general meeting. Meanwhile the Provincial Custos for Zambia, Fr. Thomas Zulu, OFM Cap., has expressed pleasure at the many young people that have shown interest in joining the order. “We have seen a rise in young people joining our Order. At St. Bonaventure University College in Lusaka we have 50 brothers this year, and next year we shall have 70 brothers,” He said. Fr. Zulu said this in an interview at the Zambia Episcopal Conference (ZEC) Kapingila house where the annual general meeting took place.Fr. Zulu has disclosed that one of the issues discussed by the Capuchin Superiors was that of the financial crisis the provinces and custodies are facing in the region.“We have been dependent on the mother provinces for finances, but as you know funds in Europe are dwindling, so our meeting is trying to see how ...
Superiors of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin of the Eastern African Capuchin Conference (EACC) gathered recently in Lusaka for their annual general meeting.
Meanwhile the Provincial Custos for Zambia, Fr. Thomas Zulu, OFM Cap., has expressed pleasure at the many young people that have shown interest in joining the order.
“We have seen a rise in young people joining our Order. At St. Bonaventure University College in Lusaka we have 50 brothers this year, and next year we shall have 70 brothers,” He said. Fr. Zulu said this in an interview at the Zambia Episcopal Conference (ZEC) Kapingila house where the annual general meeting took place.
Fr. Zulu has disclosed that one of the issues discussed by the Capuchin Superiors was that of the financial crisis the provinces and custodies are facing in the region.
“We have been dependent on the mother provinces for finances, but as you know funds in Europe are dwindling, so our meeting is trying to see how to sustain ourselves,” He noted.
Order of Friars Minor Capuchin of Eastern African Capuchin Conference (EACC) consists of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Africa, Malawi, Kenya and Madagascar. Others are Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia and Mozambique.
(Zambia Episcopal Conference)
Email: engafrica@vatiradio.va
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has urged Christians to follow the indications provided in the Beatitudes in order to avoid taking the path of greed, vanity and egoism.Speaking on Monday morning during Mass at the Casa Santa Marta the Pope drew inspiration from the Gospel of Matthew and said the Beatitudes can be used as “navigators” that shine the light on the pathway of Christian life. Reflecting on the famous Sermon on the Mount, Pope Francis said Jesus’ teaching on that occasion did not erase the old law; rather it ‘perfected’ it bringing it to its fullness: "This is the new law, the one we call ‘the Beatitudes’. It’s the Lord’s new law for us”.He described it as the roadmap for Christian life which gives us the indications to move forward on the right path.The Pope continued his homily commenting on the words of the evangelist Luke who also speaks of the Beatitudes and lists what he calls the ...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has urged Christians to follow the indications provided in the Beatitudes in order to avoid taking the path of greed, vanity and egoism.
Speaking on Monday morning during Mass at the Casa Santa Marta the Pope drew inspiration from the Gospel of Matthew and said the Beatitudes can be used as “navigators” that shine the light on the pathway of Christian life.
Reflecting on the famous Sermon on the Mount, Pope Francis said Jesus’ teaching on that occasion did not erase the old law; rather it ‘perfected’ it bringing it to its fullness:
"This is the new law, the one we call ‘the Beatitudes’. It’s the Lord’s new law for us”.
He described it as the roadmap for Christian life which gives us the indications to move forward on the right path.
The Pope continued his homily commenting on the words of the evangelist Luke who also speaks of the Beatitudes and lists what he calls the ‘four woes’: ‘Woe to the rich, to the satiated, to those who laugh now, to you when all speak well of you’.
And recalling the fact that many times he has said that riches are good, what’s bad the Pope reminded us is ‘the attachment to riches’ which becomes idolatry.
"This is the anti-law, the wrong navigator. The three slippery steps that lead to perdition, just as the Beatitudes are the steps that take us forward in life” he said.
And elaborating on that thought the Pope said the three steps that lead to perdition are:
“the attachment to riches, because I need nothing;”
“Vanity – that all must speak well of me, making me feel important, making too much of a fuss… and I am convinced to be in the right” he said, referring also the parable of the self-righteous Pharisee and the Tax Collector: “O God I thank you that I am such a good Catholic, not like my neighbor…”
“The third – he said – is pride, the satiation and the laughter that closes one’s heart”.
Of all the Beatitudes – the Pope said there is one in particular: “I’m not saying it is the key to all of them, but it induces us to much reflection and it is: Blessed are the meek. Meekness”.
“Jesus says of himself: ‘learn from me for I am meek of heart’, I am humble and gentle at heart. To be meek is a way of being that brings us close to Jesus” he said.
“The opposite attitude, Pope Francis concluded, always causes enmities and wars…lots of bad things that happen. But meekness, meekness of heart which is not foolishness, no: it’s something else. It’s the capacity to be deep and to understand the greatness of God, and worship Him”.
MOSCOW (AP) -- Ukraine's intelligence agency SBU said on Monday it has thwarted a plot to attack soccer's European Championships in France by arresting a Frenchman who wanted to cross from Ukraine into the European Union armed to the teeth....
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Afghan president on Monday condemned the killing of David Gilkey, a veteran news photographer and video editor for National Public Radio, and an Afghan translator, Zabihullah Tamanna, who died in an insurgent ambush the day before while on assignment in southern Afghanistan....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Two months before Joe Clark died of colon cancer at age 31, a doctor gently told him it was time to stop treatment....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Islamic State group has been shooting at civilians as they try to flee the nearly two-week battle between Iraqi government forces and IS militants in the city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, an international aid organization and Iraqi military say....
