L-intraprenditur Paul Gauci offra 750,000 f’ishma lil Caritas Malta kif ukoll lid-Dar tal-Providenza 75% tal-ishma tiegħu minn PG plc, li jfisser li ż-żewġ entitajiet mhux biss se jirċievu l-valur tal-kapital f’ishma, imma wkoll żewġ dividendi fis-sena, skont il-prestazzjoni tal-kumpanija.

Għalkemm Caritas Malta u d-Dar tal-Providenza diġà jirċievu legati b’mod regolari, din id-donazzjoni hija kkunsidrata ogħla, peress li se tagħtihom iċ-ċans li jippjanaw bil-quddiem, xi ħaġa li normalment hija ferm diffiċli għall-entitajiet li jibbażaw ħafna l-ħidma tagħhom fuq ġbir ta’ fondi. 

“Xtaqt li nagħtihom siġra, siġra li tagħti l-frott kull sena,” spjega s-Sur Gauci mdawwar b’familtu, li kollha kienu b’appoġġ għal din id-donazzjoni…

Pope Francis has asked families to set aside time to pray both individually and together as a family.

His prayer intention for the month of August invites people to pray that “families, through their life of prayer and love, become ever more clearly schools of true human development.”

At the start of each month, the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network releases a short video of the pope offering his specific prayer intention at www.thepopevideo.org…

The Cardinal Vicar of Vatican City State announced Tuesday that “a public, permanent, and easily accessible system for reporting crimes and negligence in the area of child abuse and vulnerable adults” will be put in place by the end of the year…

Since it has become a fruitful tradition between the Christian Churches in Europe – the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) and the Conferences of European Churches (CEC) – they are uniting once again this year in one voice to re-affirm responsibility for creation and issue an invitation to prayer.

The Season of Creation, from 1 September until 4 October, is a special period in the liturgical calendars of an increasing number of Churches in Europe…