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Malolos Diocese in Philippines had their annual Youth Congress on Oct. 14 at the Sports and Convention Centre with the theme “The Modern Youth and the Christian Family’s Active Role in the Eucharist”.During Mass to open the event, Msgr. Bartolome Santos, Vicar General of the Diocese of Malolos, urged the participants to be “Eucharistic persons” and explained to them the three important characteristics of being Eucharistic persons namely, prayerful, thankful, and communal. He called them to live out these qualities despite their youth.Organized by the Diocesan Campus Ministry (DCM) of the Diocese of Malolos , the congress included two keynote speakers, Bro. Alvin Barcelona and Rita Cusio. Barcelona spoke about the topic “21st Century Youth Leader: Media, Technology, and the Youth of Today”. Meanwhile, Cusio gave a talk on “Awakening the Greatness Within: It Takes a Leader to Raise Up a Leader”.Some 600 st...
(Vatican Radio) As Iraqi troops move on Mosul to liberate the strategic city from the so-called Islamic State, the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, has called for peace and national unity in Iraq.Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: In an appeal shared with AsiaNews, His Beatitude Louis Raphael Sako says he would like to “speak from the bottom of his heart to our Iraqi family as a whole”.In such difficult and exceptional circumstances, he says, he feels the need to address common concerns and worries and warns that if “the voices of division, inflexibility and break up begin to rise, they may obstruct the operations of release”.“I strongly believe – Patriarch Sako says – that we Iraqis are one family despite our different affiliations”.And he calls on all to avoid accusations and blame and urges everyone to put an end to disputes and factional interests.“Only by upholding the good of all Iraqis – he says - &nb...
New York City, N.Y., Oct 19, 2016 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The apostolic nuncio to the United Nations again stressed the need for nuclear weapons disarmament on Monday, with the worldwide adherence to the non-proliferation treaty a step to this goal.“Nuclear arms offer a false sense of security and the uneasy peace promised by nuclear deterrence is a tragic illusion.” Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the apostolic nuncio heading the Holy See’s permanent observer mission to the United Nations, said Oct. 17.“Nuclear weapons cannot create a stable and secure world. Peace and international stability cannot be established on mutually assured destruction or on the threat of total annihilation. Lasting peace cannot be guaranteed by the maintenance of a balance of terror,” he added.Instead, peace must be based on justice, socio-economic development, freedom, human rights, and building trust between peoples, the archbishop told a session of the U.N. General Assem...
By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS)-- While donation campaigns and charitable contributions for the needy areimportant, true Christian charity involves a more personal touch, Pope Francis said.Coming face to facewith the poor may pose a challenge and tempt people to turn the other way and give in to"the habit of fleeing from needy people and not approach them or disguisea bit the reality of the needy," the pope said Oct. 19 during his generalaudience in St. Peter's Square."Poverty in theabstract does not challenge us. It may make us think, it may make us complain,but when you see poverty in the flesh of a man, a woman a child; this (certainly)challenges us!" he said.Thousands packed thesquare for the weekly audience, many of whom attended the Oct. 16 canonizationMass of seven new saints. Among the pilgrims was a group from the pope's native Argentina whosang folk music and dressed in traditional ponchos.After his address,the pope greeted the group and blessed a life-sized sta...
BERLIN (AP) -- The European Space Agency planned to land an experimental probe on Mars Wednesday as part of an international mission to analyze the red planet's atmosphere and hunt for signs of life....
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A man accused of setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York, injuring more than 30 people, has been moved from a hospital to a state prison....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Latest on the developments in Iraq as government forces and their allies press ahead in the battle for IS-held city of Mosul (all times local):...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday said access to food and water is a basic human right, and called on believers and people of good will everywhaere to take personal responsibility for the needs of their neighbors. The appeal came during the Holy Father's weekly General Audience in St. Peter’s Square. The Pope focused on feeding the hungry – the first of the Corporal Works of Mercy – during the catechetical portion of the event.Below, please find the official English-language summary read out following the main catechesis in Italian***************************************************Dear Brothers and Sisters: In our catechesis for this Holy Year of Mercy, we have reflected on God’s mercy and our own responsibility, as followers of Jesus, to be “merciful like the Father”. Among the corporal works of mercy, the first is that of feeding the hungry. Access to food and water is a basic human right, yet so many members of our hum...
(Vatican Radio) A letter from the Holy See regarding the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has been published on the website of the UN General Assembly.The letter, dated 25 September 2016 and signed by Archbishop Bernadito Auza, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN, evaluates the Agenda and makes some considerations regarding the Agenda in light of Pope Francis’ address to the United Nations when he travelled to New York in September 2015 and of other principles.You can find the full text of Holy See’s letter to the UN General Assembly here.Below, is the synopsis of the letter provided by the United Nations:On October 5, The United Nations General Assembly published on its website a September 25, 2016 letter from the Holy See regarding the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development on the first anniversary of the adoption of the 2030 Agenda. The UN published it as an annex to Agenda Items 13 and 117 of the 71st Session of the General Ass...
