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(Vatican Radio) Elizabeth Bettina Nicolosi puts everything down to a “miracle”. A miracle and a series of coincidences which saved her life after a brutal mugging in New York City one night before Christmas last year. In an apparent theft-turned- attempted murder, a man had followed her home and viciously attacked her in the vestibule downstairs. Elizabeth and her two rescuer-Good Samaritans, Jonny Lennon and Ashley Aversano, attended the Mass at Santa Marta and met Pope Francis on Tuesday. They shared their story with Tracey McClure:Listen “I think that this is all a miracle – it’s unbelievable how this all happened,” says Elizabeth. “I am so lucky that when I was being beaten for five minutes in the vestibule of my building, people who did not know me came down from the fifth floor and saved my life and they are the ultimate Good Samaritans and I couldn’t think of a better way to say thank you for saving my life than having t...
An Indian anti-mining activist in eastern India’s Odisha state, is among 6 winners of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize 2017, also known as the “Green Nobel.” Prafulla Samantara and five others were honoured at a special ceremony at the San Francisco Opera House, USA, on April 24. Samantara spent more than a decade battling the Odisha government and Vedanta Resources, a London-based mining corporation seeking to extract bauxite from an area belonging to the Dongria Kondh, an 8,000-member indigenous tribe in the state. The other winners of this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize are from Slovenia, the US, Guatemala, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Australia. The prize – which was first awarded in 1990 and focuses on grass-roots environmental activism – gives each of its recipients a $175,000 no-strings attached cash grant. “An iconic leader of social justice movements in India, Prafu...
Lima, Peru, Apr 25, 2017 / 06:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Archbishop José Antonio Eguren of Piura and Tumbes, Peru visited the inhabitants of one of the areas most affected by the recent floods in northern Peru, who asked him to help them get some Bibles.According to the Archdiocese of Piura, a group of victims from the Pedregal Chico settlement in Baja Piura approached the archbishop last week and asked him for some Bibles because the ones they had were lost in the flood.“They said that the Word of God is essential for them and for the continuity of their family catechetical programs and ongoing catechesis they have implemented in their village,” said a news brief from the archdiocese.Archbishop Eguren promised to get the Bibles and assured the victims that “the love of God does not abandon them nor has he forgotten them.”The archbishop, accompanied by volunteers and authorities from the charitable group Caritas, brought three tons of food supplies for th...
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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis celebrated the funeral rites for Cardinal Attilio Nicora in St. Peter’s Basilica on Monday.Cardinal Nicora, the former president of the Vatican’s Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA), died on Saturday at the age of 80.The funeral rites and homily were delivered by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Dean of the College of Cardinals.Cardinal Sodano recalled the long and generous service offered by Cardinal Nicora to the Holy See, saying he “was consecrated to the service of the Church”.During the Mass at the Altar of the Chair, Pope Francis presided over the rites of Commendatio and Valedictio.In a telegramme sent on Sunday, the Holy Father expressed his gratitude for the Cardinal’s precious service to the Church and to civil society in Italy, especially in the legal field, noting his contribution to the revision of the Lateran Pacts and later his work as President of APSA and AIF.
(Vatican Radio) The Holy See has called for governments to promote the “true development” of indigenous peoples, especially in “the harmonization of their right to cultural and social development alongside economic development”.Archbishop Bernardito Auza made the appeal on Monday to the UN’s permanent forum on indigenous issues, taking place on the 10th anniversary of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.He said economic activities should be planned with the “prior and informed consent” of indigenous peoples when those initiatives affect them.Archbishop Auza said the reason for this involvement is that “Indigenous communities are not merely one minority among others, but should be the principal dialogue partners when large projects affecting their ancestral lands are proposed.”He also recalled Pope Francis’ desire “to be a spokesman for the deepest longings of indigenous peoples”.The Holy ...
