• Pope Francis has shifted the Catholic Church’s annual World Day of Migrants and Refugees from January to September, the Holy See spokesman, Greg Burke said in a statement on Tuesday. 

  “At the request of various Bishops’ Conferences, the Holy Father has moved the World Day of Migrants and Refugees to the last Sunday of September,” the statement read. “Thus, the next World Day of Migrants and Refugees, the 105 th , will be celebrated on Sunday 29 September 2019.”  “As usual, the text of the Holy Father’s Message will be released some months before the World Day,” Burke added…

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• Il-Ħadd, 18 ta’ Novembru 2018, 14-il adolexxent mill-parroċċa tas-Sacro Cuor f’Tas-Sliema rċevew is-Sagrament tal-Griżma mill-Isqof Awżiljarju Joseph Galea-Curimi. 

   

• L-għoti tas-Sagrament tal-Griżma tal-Isqof fil-parroċċa tas-Sacro Cuor

   

• Ir-ritratti huma aċċessibbli fuq il-websajt tar-Ritratti Uffiċjali tal-Arċidjoċesi ta’ Malta.

   

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• Imagine being in a strange land, arrested by security forces and thrown into a cold, dark cell. You are in solitary and do not know what your fate will be. You fear the executioner will be coming for you.

  A few frightening days pass, and you hear footsteps approaching. Outside your cell door, muffled voices can be heard…

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• Messaġġ tal-Papa Franġisku fil-Jum Dinji tal-Foqra 2018

   

• 1.  “Dan il-fqajjar sejjaħ u l-Mulej semgħu,” (Salm 34:6). Il-kliem tas-Salmista jsir tagħna kull meta aħna niġu msejħa biex niltaqgħu ma’ sitwazzjonijiet differenti ta’ tbatija u emarġinazzjoni li jgħaddu minnha ħafna minn ħutna li aħna mdorrijin inlaqqmuhom bħala “l-fqar”. Is-salmista mhux sajjem mit-tbatija; imma bil-maqlub. Hu għandu esperjenza diretta tal-faqar u minkejja dan jittrasforma t-tbatija f’innu ta’ tifħir u ringrazzjament lil Alla. Illum, Salm 34 jippermettilna, imdawrin kif aħna b’diversi forom ta’ tbatija, li nagħrfu lil dawk li huma tassew foqra…

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• The two-day symposium which ended Friday has been organized by the Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation. Among those taking part is Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal, Pietro Parolin, as well as, Princeton Professor Robert George, and Harvard Professor, Mary Ann Glendon. In an address to the meeting on Friday, Professor Glendon spoke on the “universal dimension of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its effective application.”

  Pick and choose attitude to rights

  During her speech, the Harvard Professor spoke of a “pick and choose attitude to rights” and said that Human Rights ideas have become a victim of their own success…

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