“Future Covid-19 vaccines should be available, affordable and accessible, especially for elderly people, ill persons and health workers”. This is one of the messages sent to the EU and its Member States by the Assembly of the COMECE Working Group on Ethics Kompli aqra », which gathered in video conference on Thursday 1 October 2020 to exchange on the “Ethical challenges of Europe in times of the Covid-19 pandemic”…

With COVID-19 fatigue setting in, uncertainty about the future, and frustration about not being able to see our loved ones and get back to life as we knew it, many of us may be feeling a little low.

Thankfully, today is the feast of the much-loved Polish pontiff, St. John Paul II, and the occasion provides us an opportunity to consider his wisdom. In his homilies, encyclicals, and books, John Paul II was quick to point out that in tough times there is always light, and with that light, there is hope. So look to the wise words of this great modern saint to motivate you and help you through these turbulent times… Kompli aqra »

The Provisional Agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China regarding the appointment of Bishops was signed in Beijing on September 22, 2018. That Agreement expires today since it went into effect one month later, with the term of two years ad experimentum. As this date drew near, the two parties evaluated various aspects of the Agreement’s application, and through an official exchange of Note Verbali, have agreed to prolong the term for another two years, until October 22, 2022… Kompli aqra »

Pope Francis and religious leaders of the major world religions gathered in Rome on Tuesday 20 October for an international and interreligious Meeting for Peace organized by the Community of Saint Egidio.

Present at the Meeting in Rome’s Capitoline Square, were also political leaders who symbolically received a text of the 2020 Appeal for Peace.

The 2020 Appeal for Peace

Gathered in Rome, in “the spirit of Assisi”, and spiritually united to believers worldwide and to all men and women of good will, we have prayed alongside one another to invoke upon our world the gift of peace.  We have called to mind the wounds of humanity, we are united with the silent prayers of so many of our suffering brothers and sisters, all too often nameless and unheard.  We now solemnly commit ourselves to make our own and to propose to the leaders of nations and the citizens of the world this Appeal for Peace… Kompli aqra »

Fl-okkażjoni tad-59 anniversarju mit-twaqqif tal-Awtorità tax-Xandir, iċ-Chairman tal-Awtorità, is-Sur Frank V. Farrugia flimkien mal-Kap Eżekuttiv, Dr Joanna Spiteri u l-Membri tal-Bord iltaqgħu mal-Arċisqof Charles Jude Scicluna, waqt laqgħa kordjali li saret fil-15 ta’ Ottubru 2020, fil-Kurja l-Furjana.

Matul il-laqgħa tkellmu dwar il-qagħda tal-istazzjonijiet u tax-xandir, kif ukoll dwar ir-rwol tar-regolatur f’soċjetà fejn il-midja dejjem qed tiżviluppa. Kien enfasizzat li l-Awtorità tax-Xandir qegħda hemm għall-ħarsien tal-interess pubbliku, tal-konsumaturi tal-midja u għall-protezzjoni tal-minuri u l-vulnerabbli… Kompli aqra »

Is-Soċjetà tad-Duttrina Nistranija, permezz ta’ Pubblikazzjoni Preca, ippubblikat dawn il-kotba li jistgħu jkunu utli għall-ħajja spiritwali u l-ministeru pastorali.

It-tentazzjoni u d-dixxerniment hu ktieb tat-teologu Ċilen Segundo Galilea li oriġinarjament kien ippublikat fl-1991. Għandu jinteressa lil dawk impenjati fil-Knisja għax jispjega b’mod prattiku u attwali kif nistgħu niddistingwu bejn it-tqanqil tal-Ispirtu s-Santu u dak li hu biss falsità.

Mingħajru ma nistgħu tagħmlu xejn: inkunu missjunarji fid-dinja tal-lum hu ktieb-intervista tal-Papa Franġisku mal-ġurnalista Taljan Gianni Valenti li oriġinarjament kien ippublikat fl-2019… Kompli aqra »

Għeżież ħuti,

Nixtieq nesprimi l-gratitudni tiegħi lejn Alla għall-impenn li bih il-Knisja kollha għexet ix-Xahar Missjunarju Straordinarju matul Ottubru li għadda. Konvint li t-triq indikata permezz tat-tema: “Mgħammda u mibgħuta: Il-Knisja ta’ Kristu f’missjoni fid-dinja” għenet biex titqanqal konverżjoni missjunarja f’ħafna komunitajiet. 

F’din is-sena mmarkata mit-tbatija u l-isfidi li ġabet magħha l-pandemija ta’ covid-19, il-mixja missjunarja tal-Knisja tkompli fid-dawl tal-kelma li nsibu fir-rakkont  dwar is-sejħa tal-profeta Isaija: «Hawn jien, ibgħat lili» (Is 6,8). Din hi tweġiba dejjem ġdida għal meta il-Mulej jistaqsi: «Lil min nibgħat?» (ibid… Kompli aqra »