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Vatican City, Oct 7, 2016 / 07:59 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After electing their new General Superior, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate had a meeting with Pope Francis, who told them that in the midst of a rapidly changing world, humanity needs missionaries filled love and zeal for the Gospel.“Today, every land is 'mission territory,' every dimension of the human being is mission territory, awaiting the announcement of the Gospel,” he said Oct. 6.“The field of the mission today seems to expand every day” with men and women in desperate situations, he said. “Therefore there is need of you, of your missionary courage, your willingness to take to all the Good News that liberates and consoles.”Pope Francis met with the Missionary Oblates exactly one week after they held elections for their next Superior General in Rome, as well as in honor of the 200th Jubilee of their founding, which is being celebrated throughout 2016.On Sept. 30th, the ...
By Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Wherever public policy, communitiesand even religions may have failed, sports and recreation are ready and set tolift wounded spirits and build cooperation and peace in the world, said anumber of speakers at a Vatican conference."Sport is the medicine my mother couldn't giveme" to counteract the bullying and exclusion growing up in York,Pennsylvania, one Special Olympic champion said.Despite growing up poor, partially blind and mentallychallenged, "I could do Double Dutch like no one else" with jump-ropes and could run faster than the others, Loretta Claiborne said during aglobal conference on "Sport at the Service of Humanity," hosted bythe Pontifical Council for Culture Oct. 6-7.Maria Toorpakay Wazir -- a professional squash player whogrew up in the Taliban's "hotbed of terrorism" tribal regions ofPakistan -- told the audience "it was an accident" and a blessing"I got into sports.""When I realized at 4 years old, boys have morefreedom than girl...
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's parliament ratified a treaty with Syria on Friday that allows Russian troops to stay indefinitely in the Mideast country, a show of support for embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State John Kerry called Friday for Russia and Syria to face a war crimes investigation for their attacks on Syrian civilians, further illustrating the downward spiral in relations between Washington and Moscow....
BEAUMONT, Haiti (AP) -- People across southwest Haiti were digging through the wreckage of their homes Friday, salvaging what they could from a deadly and devastating encountered with the full force of Hurricane Matthew....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Hurricane Matthew scraped Florida's Atlantic coast early Friday, toppling trees onto homes and knocking out power to more than a half-million people but sparing some of the most heavily populated stretches of shoreline the catastrophic blow many had feared....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Citing a Border Patrol union leader, Donald Trump said Friday that agents have been told to allow immigrants into the United States illegally "so they can vote in the election." But he offered no evidence to support his most recent claim that presidential voting may be tainted by fraud....
After six days of prayer, reflection, testimonies, catechesis and a 3-day live-in programme, the curtain came down on the Second Indonesian Youth Day (IYD2) with a Mass Thursday night in Manado. The animated concluding Mass, Oct. 6, at the ‘Amphitheatre’ of the Catholic Youth Centre at Lotta, was followed by a programme of speeches, songs, dances and entertainment by the various diocesan regions of the nation, that dragged late into the night. The IYD, Oct. 1-6, had as its theme, “The Joy of Gospel amidst a Plural Society in Indonesia”. Bishop Pius Prabdi of Ketapang, the chairman of the Youth Commission of the Indonesian Bishops’ Conference, presided over the concelebrated Mass in which 17 other bishops joined him at the altar, while over a 100 priests concelebrated a little away from the altar. Many of them helped in distributing Holy Communion. Numerous IYD2 participants turned up in their ethnic costumes or IYD T-shirt...
(Vatican Radio) One of the participants at the ongoing Vatican conference on Sport and Faith is a refugee athlete from South Sudan who brings his own personal witness of how his participation in the 2016 Olympics as part of the first-ever ‘refugee team’ to compete in the Games allowed him to represent refugees across the world and shine the light on their stories and on one of the major challenges of our time. The ‘Sport at the Service of Humanity’ global Conference is hosted by the Pontifical Council for Culture and sponsored with the collaboration of Allianz. The event, which is supported by the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee, is being attended by leading figures in religion and sports. Their goal is to discuss how faith and sport can work together to promote positive values, with the intention of gaining actionable results. Paulo Amotun Lokoro, a member of the Summer 2016 Refugee Olympic Team, is a track and f...
(Vatican Radio) Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos has won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the 52-year conflict with the Marxist FARC rebels. It was seen as a surprise choice after Colombians narrowly voted in a referendum last week to reject the peace deal signed by Santos and the rebels.The Nobel Committee said Santos had brought one of the longest civil wars in modern history significantly closer to a peaceful solution but there was still a real danger the peace process could come to a halt and that war could flare up again.Santos has promised to revive the peace plan despite the outcome of the referendum and said the Nobel peace prize award was "of invaluable importance" to further the peace process.Colombia’s Catholic Church played a key role as a mediator between the two sides during the long-running peace negotiations and has been at the forefront of trying to promote reconciliation.
