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(Vatican Radio) The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (PCPM) met in Plenary Assembly last week, September 8-11 focusing their attention on the three key areas of education, a Day of Prayer and the Holy Father's MOTU PROPRIO “As a Loving Mother”, on the accountability of Church leadership. The Plenary also recognised the importance of digital technology and have announced the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors will be going live with its own website.The Working Group meetings focused on the updates for current projects, and developing draft proposals for Pope Francis. Lydia O'Kane spoke to Commission member Gabriel Dy-Liacco from the Philippines about the Commissions work.Listen: Please find below the full press statement from the Commission:The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors [PCPM] works throughout the year and came together in Rome from September 5 through 11 for a w...
(Vatican Radio) Divisions destroy the Church, and the devil seeks to attack the root of unity: the celebration of the Eucharist. That was the message of Pope Francis on Monday morning at the daily Mass at the Casa Santa Marta, on the feast of the Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary.Commenting on the reading from the First Letter to the Corinthians — where St Paul rebuked the Corinthians for their contentiousness — Pope Francis said, “The devil has two very powerful weapons to destroy the Church: divisions and money.” And this has happened from the beginning: “ideological, theological divisions that lacerate the Church. The devil sows jealousy, ambitions, ideas, but to divide! Or greed.” And, as happens after a war, “everything is destroyed. And the devil is pleased. And we, naïve as we are, are his game.” “It is a dirty war, that of divisions,” he repeated. “It’s like terrorism,” the war ...
The third Pan-African Congress on Divine Mercy, which started at the weekend, is underway in the Rwandese town of Kabuga at the Shrine of Divine Mercy. Kabuga is located less than thirty minutes away from the Rwandese capital of Kigali.Present at the weeekend official ceremonies were 3 African Cardinals namely, the Special envoy of Pope Francis to the Congress, Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya; Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and Cardinal Philippe Ouédraogo, the Archbishop of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. Also present were ten Archbishops and Bishops; several priests, the religious and the Catholic faithful from all over Africa.In his welcome address to participants, Nigerian Bishop, Martin Igwe Uzoukwu of Minna Diocese gave the history of the Congress on Divine Mercy in Africa. He outlined how it all started and how the Congress has been growing over the years. Bishop Uzoukwu spoke about the ...
The funerals of some of the dead from Tanzania’ Saturday earthquake have been held in Bukoba’s Kaitaba stadium on Sunday. Bukoba, the city worst-hit by the quake is part of Tanzania’s Kagera province which borders Uganda and Rwanda.By Monday, the death toll of people killed in the quake stood at 15. This is according to the Spanish EFE news agency. The agency quoting local police sources also said 253 people were reported injured others seriously. The earthquake, with a magnitude of 5.9 degrees on the Richter scale was also followed by Aftershocks Sunday night. Several families are said to have spent nights in the open. About 850 houses have been destroyed while several buildings collapsed; Twitter pictures show main roads with huge craters and many houses in the area have large cracks.83 patients have been discharged from hospital after treatment, and the local government has appealed to citizens to donate blood to help the wounded in critical conditi...
CAIRO (AP) -- Muslims worldwide are celebrating the first day of Eid al-Adha, or "Feast of Sacrifice," the most important Islamic holiday that commemorates the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim - also known as Abraham to Christians and Jews - to sacrifice his son before God stayed his hand....
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities in Florida are investigating an early Monday fire at the mosque that was attended by the Orlando nightclub shooter as a possible arson....
TOKYO (AP) -- North Korea is mobilizing to deal with a disastrous flood that killed more than 130 people, destroyed tens of thousands of homes and crippled infrastructure in its northern-most province....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea is capable of detonating another nuclear device at its main atomic test site any time it chooses, Seoul officials said Monday, as the United States reportedly planned to send two nuclear-capable supersonic bombers to the South in a show of force against Pyongyang....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Latest on developments in the civil war in Syria where a cease-fire brokered by the United States and Russia is due to start at sundown (all times local):...
(Vatican Radio) Initial results show conservatives have received most votes in Sunday's early election in Croatia, winning about 62 seats ' in the 151-seat parliament, but not enough to rule alone. Its rival left-leaning People's Coalition, which include the Social Democrats, won 53. Third-placed are kingmakers Most, or Bridge, with 12 seats, raising fears of more political uncertainty in the new European Union member state. Listen to Stefan Bos' reports Yet, supporters of the conservative Croatian Democratic Union, or HDZ, celebrated as their party received more votes than expected.The results present a major success for the HDZ party, which also led the previous right-wing government that collapsed in June after less than six monthsin power amid infighting and scandals. That triggered the worst political turmoil in the country since it joined the European Union in 2013. Though HDZ did better than expected, analysts say tt will need smal...
