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(Vatican Radio) Judges from across the globe gather in the Vatican this week to discuss ways to combat human trafficking, mafias, drug trafficking, and the exploitation of prostitution and of minors, migrants and displaced persons. Organized and promoted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the event entitled “Summit of Judges on human trafficking and organized crime” is scheduled to take place on June 3 and 4.Among the problems identified are the gaps in national and international legislation designed to combat organized crime at the global level and its “structures of sin.”Participants are also scheduled to be received in audience by Pope Francis. Invited to give life to the event are over one hundred magistrates, prosecutors, representatives of judicial organizations and institutions around the world, who are engaged in the fight against various criminal activities.Discussions in the Casina Pio IV venue will focus on a number of current...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis sent a Message to the participants of a European meeting of prison chaplains taking place in Strasbourg discussing radicalization in prisons.The message, sent by the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said Pope Francis “wishes to assure all who are serving prison communities of his prayerful solidarity and deep gratitude for their efforts in upholding the human dignity of all those incarcerated.”The full message is belowPope’s Message to the participants of the European meeting of prison ChaplainsHis Holiness Pope Francis was pleased to learn of the European meeting of prison chaplains, entitled “Radicalisation in prisons: a pastoral view”, to be held at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg from 30 May to 1 June 2016. With appreciation to the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences, the International Commission of Catholic Prison Pastoral Care and the Permanent Mission of the Holy See for organizing ...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday thanked the Jain community for its commitment to protect “our sister Earth.”The Pope’s words came as he received members of the Institute of Jainology in private audience in the Vatican before leading the weekly General Audience in St. Peter’s Square.Expressing his joy for the encounter, Pope Francis welcomed the Jains saying that “this encounter nurtures our responsibility to care for creation”, and calling creation a “gift that we have all received” he said “creation is God’s mirror, the mirror of the Creator, the mirror of nature, and it is our mirror too.”“We all love mother Earth, because she is the one who has given us life and safeguards us; I would also call her sister Earth, who accompanies us during the journey of our existence. Our duty is to take care of her just as we would take care of a mother or of a sister, with responsibility, with tenderness and with...
(Vatican Radio) After nearly two decades of construction, Switzerland is set to officially inaugurate the world’s largest railway tunnel which has been built into the heart of the Swiss Alps.Listen to Ann Schneible’s report: The project has taken 17 years to complete and cost billions in Swiss francs. But, the 57 kilometer Gotthard Base tunnel through the Swiss Alps promises to help better connect northern and southern Europe.After it officially opens for commercial service in December following numerous tests to ensure its safety, as many as 260 freight trains and 65 passenger trains will pass through the tunnel per day.It is hoped that the tunnel will take pressure off the roadway traffic, amid concerns that the local ecosystem is being damaged by the pollution.A grand opening for the new railway is scheduled for Wednesday, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi are expected to join Swiss of...
Bishop Angelo Pagano was last Sunday consecrated as the Vicar Apostolic of Harar in Ethiopia. The colourful ceremony took place at Diredawa St. Augustine Catholic Church. The new Bishop was welcomed to his Vicariate on 28 May at the Diredawa airport by the Archbishop of Addis Ababa, Cardinal Berhaneyesus, C.M., and Archbishop Luigi Bianco, the Apostolic Nuncio to Ethiopia. Also present were other Catholic Bishops of Ethiopia, the Mayor of Diredawa City Administration, students of Diredawa and hundreds of Catholics as well as people of good will.On the occasion of his consecration Bishop Angelo, who has chosen “Love one another” (Jn 15:12-17) as his Episcopal motto, asked the congregation present to support him in his ministry with prayer.“I humbly ask you to pray for the Christian community in the Apostolic Vicariate of Harar and for me so that God may give me a heart able to love and give consolation to his flock according to the feelings and will of Jesus the g...
Rome, Italy, Jun 1, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Irene Bertoni was 18 years-old during World War II. And it was at this tumultuous time that she discovered God's vocational call for her to be a mother.She adopted two abandoned children, and with the blessing of her bishop founded the Catholic charitable work Nomadelfia, along with a priest named Father Zeno Saltini.Mama Irene fully lived out her calling and died on May 15, the Solemnity of Pentecost, at 93 years-old. She was the adoptive mother of 58 children and an example for dozens of women who followed in her path.Irene died in the home that Blessed Paul VI donated to her in the 1960s. Hundreds of people, including Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, attended the funeral which was held at the Nomadelfia community, founded in 1948 and which currently is comprised of more than 50 families that take in abandoned children as their own.Saint John Paul II visited this community in 1989 and praised their way of life, saying it reminded ...
BUENG KAN, Thailand (AP) -- As Thailand's ousted prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra made her way through a line of fans, some cried, others screamed and a few embraced her....
HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) -- A New Jersey doctor says a baby born to a mother with the Zika (ZEE'-kuh) virus appears to be affected by the disease....
BERLIN (AP) -- Nine months ago, after the Syrian army razed his neighborhood, Mohammed was desperate to make his way to Germany....
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt said Wednesday that a French ship has picked up signals from deep under the Mediterranean Sea, presumed to be from black boxes of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month, killing all 66 passengers and crew on board....
