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(Vatican Radio) Zimbabwe is one of several Southern African countries affected by the El Niño weather system that’s led to unusual weather patterns and 21 million people in need of food aid.In some of the worst-hit parts of the country, between a half and two-thirds of households are going hungry. The situation is expected to get even worse in the coming months as the ‘lean’ season started months too early after crops failed in the devastating drought.Caritas is feeding school children and poor farming families in some of the worse hit regions. But – as Caritas Internationalis communications director, Patrick Nicholson, who recently travelled to some of those areas, explains: a lot more assistance is needed from outside the country to prevent hundreds of deaths by hunger…Listen to Linda Bordoni’s interview with Patrick Nicholson: “When you travel through Zimbabwe you just see field after field of burnt-out straw, all the maize...
Vice Chairman of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) – Family Life National Office (NFP), Bishop Alfred Rotich has said that there is the need to restore sexual sanity and morality to give marriage and family their rightful place and dignity. He was speaking at the weekend in Nairobi, during the African Regional Conference on Families. Bishop Rotich added that there is no better method of family planning than NFP for the 21st century and beyond.He emphasised that through NFP, society is assured of strengthening the institution of marriage, building up the human family, and nurturing children. “NFP is a method that respects the dignity of man, woman and life.” He said.The Bishop emphasised that the greatest benefit of NFP is that it calls for the same traits that are fundamental for marriage as a whole noting that, any teaching of NFP is always within the context of enhancing the marriage. NFP strengthens family bonds, promotes responsible parenthood a...
Archbishop Antonio Ledesma of Cagayan de Oro, Philippines said the archdiocese has joined a multisectoral group to help in preventing and treating drug abuse. He said that the archdiocese will collaborate with the government in providing a faith-based drug rehabilitation programme. He said the “Coalition for a Drug-free Society” was formed with the city government of Cagayan de Oro, the Department of Health, and various civil society groups.The prelate added that the coalition has three main advocacies composed of prevention, intervention, and community support.“So the Church will [take part in] the community support because we do not have the facilities for scientific rehabilitation,” Ledesma told Radio Veritas Tuesday.“But we can give community support in terms of counseling, spiritual healing, and also making available our parish halls and formation centers,” he said.The Jesuit archbishop has earlier called on the clergy to open th...
A workshop aimed at establishing a network of Small Christian Communities (SCCs) in Africa is scheduled to take place in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, next month.The weeklong conference, which will run from 20 to 27 October 2016, is being organised by Missio-Aachen and the Archdiocese of Kinshasa, under the patronage of Laurent Cardinal Monsengwo, the Archbishop of Kinshasa.According to a message sent to the Nairobi-based CANAA about the workshop, the network of SCCs to be established will provide a forum for sharing ideas, experiences, knowledge, and a wealth of relevant competencies around the reality of SCCs across Africa and in the diaspora.Creating and hosting a website to facilitate the sharing of information is one of the immediate objectives of the planned workshop, a forum that makes possible the networking of the different SCCs stakeholders.It is hoped that when the SCC network is created, members will gain access to other networks within th...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met with members of the World Jewish Congress on Monday evening.An article published on Tuesday by the Vatican newspaper, the 'Osservatore Romano', highlighted how the Holy Father spoke about a series of issues pertaining to inter faith relations and the current migration crisis on the European continent.“Europe often forgets that it has been enriched by migrants,” – Pope Francis said – “Europe is closing itself up. Europe is lacking creativity. Europe has a falling birth rate, and problems of high unemployment.”Pope Francis also spoke about migrants integrating into their new surroundings, which he called “important.”“The people who committed the terrorist attacks in Belgium were not properly integrated,” he said.Pope Francis also reiterated a good Christian could not be an anti-Semite, and said Christians and Jews must speak out against brutality in the world.“We need mor...
Vatican City, Sep 27, 2016 / 07:45 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican announced Tuesday that Pope Francis has named Msgr. Robert Milner Coerver, a parish priest from the Diocese of Dallas, as the new bishop-elect for Lubbock, Texas.Msgr. Coerver, pastor of St. Rita Parish in Dallas, will be taking over for Bishop Plácido Rodríguez, who has been leading the diocese since 1994, but who will now retire after having reached the age limit of 75.Born June 6, 1954, in Dallas, Msgr. Coerver grew up as part of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish before beginning his studies in philosophy at Dallas’ Holy Trinity Seminary.He was then sent to the Pontifical North American College in Rome to study theology, where he was also enrolled in courses at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas and the Pontifical Gregorian University.The bishop-elect was ordained a priest June 27, 1980, for the diocese of Dallas, and in 1981 received a Licentiate in Spiritual Theology from the Gregorian U...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Hans Deryk, ReutersBy Mark PattisonWASHINGTON(CNS) -- Benedictine Archabbot Douglas R. Nowicki of St. Vincent's Archabbey inLatrobe, Pennsylvania, was with Arnold Palmer when the golfing great died Sept.25 in Pittsburgh.It wasn'tthe first time Archabbot Nowicki had visited Palmer that day. Palmer, 87, wasin a hospital awaiting a heart operation scheduled for Sept. 26. "I went to saya prayer and give him a blessing. About an hour after I'd departed, I got a call"that Palmer's health was failing rapidly, the archabbot told Catholic NewsService in a Sept. 26 telephone interview.Eventhough Palmer was a lifelong Presbyterian, he'd had a relationship with St.Vincent's spanning more than 50 years, when Archabbot Nowicki himself was inthe high school at the archabbey.Palmerdid not let denominational differences deter him. "Arnie sort of appealed to everyone.There were no barriers, race, color, creed -- those were things that never enteredinto" his mind, Archabbot Nowicki s...
MIAMI (AP) -- As the baseball world mourned the death of Jose Fernandez, a beachgoer found a bag containing four baseballs signed by the Marlins 24-year-old pitcher....
Longtime customers of Target's pharmacies are finding a change in pill bottle design hard to swallow....
LONDON (AP) -- As investors and investigators weigh the damage of Yahoo's massive breach to the internet icon, information security experts worry that the record-breaking haul of password data could be used to open locks up and down the web....
