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(Vatican Radio) Young pilgrims from 187 different countries are in Poland this week to see Pope Francis and to take part in the World Youth Day celebrations. Lydia O’Kane caught up with some of them to find out what drives people from so many different backgrounds to come together for this six day event.Listen to Lydia’s conversation with Julia, a Dominican sister from southern India, Jim, a youth group chaperon from Minneapolis in the United States, and Sommer, one of a large group of young people from all over Jordan.
(Vatican Radio) Millions of Vatican Radio listeners knew this voice and the man behind the voice: “This is Gordon Martin for Vatican Radio in Geneva”Listen to the report by Christian Peschken: On Wednesday, here at the UN Geneva we, his colleagues where saddened to learn from his wife, that Gordon had passed away the day earlier on Tuesday July 26, at 9PM in his Geneva home, following a heart attack. The President of the United Nations Correspondent Association ACANU , Jan Dirk Herbermann:“Gordon Martin was certainly one of our most esteemed colleagues; he was famous for his anecdotes, for his jokes, for his very good sense of humour. This is certainly a great loss for the Geneva press corps. He was also a personal friend as it is always sad to lose personal friends and esteemed colleagues like Gordon” he said. UN Geneva Director General Michael Moller in his official commemorative statement this morning acknowledged Gordon Mar...
Krakow, Poland, Jul 28, 2016 / 03:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pilgrims from across the globe travel to World Youth Day by plane, train and automobile. But not Victor Jacquemont, Antoine Lescuyer, and Humbert Canot.The three young men, all in their early twenties, traveled from Paris to Krakow by biking 1,134 miles.Their 18-day journey – starting on July 4 – took them across France, Germany, Czech Republic, and Prague.The men told CNA they had a small tent in tow but also asked for “hospitality” from local churches and met many people along the way.Originally from Cergy, a suburb of Paris, the men said the idea was to bike from their school’s chapel to the international youth gathering in Poland. The three attend ESSEC, an international business school in Europe.One of the reasons they chose to bike was because, “it’s not just a trip. It was kind of a pilgrimage,” Canot said.He explained that they wanted to make some effort, “some phy...
Czestochowa, Poland, Jul 28, 2016 / 04:44 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Those who embrace their own littleness become the “spokespersons” of God, Pope Francis said during Mass at the shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, celebrating the 1050 anniversary of Poland becoming a Christian nation. It was the first major event of the Pope's trip to the country for the 31st World Youth Day.“To be attracted by power, by grandeur, by appearances, is tragically human,” the pontiff said in his homily. “But to give oneself to others, eliminating distances, dwelling in littleness and living the reality of one’s everyday life: this is exquisitely divine.”“The little ones speak (God's) own language, that of the humble love that brings freedom,” he said. “So he calls the simple and receptive to be his spokespersons; he entrusts to them the revelation of his name and the secrets of his heart.”According to official estimates, some 500,000 p...
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CZESTOCHOWA, Poland (AP) -- Pope Francis, visiting a shrine cherished by Poles, praised native son St. John Paul II on Thursday as a "meek and powerful" herald of mercy, and honored the countless "ordinary yet remarkable people" in Poland who held firm to their Catholic faith throughout adversity in the former Communist nation....
PARIS (AP) -- Officials on Thursday identified the second man who attacked a Normandy church during a morning Mass this week, saying he is a 19-year-old from eastern France who was spotted last month in Turkey as he supposedly headed to Syria - but who returned to France instead....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Eight years ago, Barack Obama cast himself as the rare candidate who could transcend the polarizing "politics of the past" and bridge divides that had left Washington barely functioning for years. Ultimately, the gulf was too wide - if anything, the political climate in the United States worsened....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis was scheduled on Thursday to visit Jasna Góra Monastery in Czestochowa, Poland, to celebrate a Mass commemorating the 1050th anniversary of the Baptism of Poland.The Monastery is the location of the famous icon, the Black Madonna of Czestochowa. There is a legend the image was made by St. Luke, and the icon has become a symbol of Poland, and revered especially by the Polish diaspora around the world.The Monastery is home to the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit, or the Pauline Fathers.“The icon, the blessed Madonna, is venerated not only by the Polish people, but the faithful from all the world, which was many times highlighted by John Paul II, it is still a recognizable sign of the Polish people living in many places around the world,” explained the Father General of the Order, Fr. Arnold Chrapkowski, OSPPE.Listen to the interview by Lydia O’Kane with Fr. Arnold Chrapkowski, OSPPE: This international outreach has had an eff...
