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The Social Communications Commission of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) has expressed satisfaction over the way Catholic media houses in the country are responding to the audience research training they underwent in August this year.The National Communications Secretary, Fr. Godino Phokoso said this when he and Fr. Andrew Kaufa toured Radio Tuntufye of Karonga Diocese recently. Fathers Phokoso and Kaufa also visited Radio Tigabane FM of Mzuzu.The duo said following the training that was facilitated by Dr Nancy Booker and Graham Mytton from Kenya and the United Kingdom respectively Catholic media houses in Malawi are now able to conduct research and know for themselves how they are faring regarding audience and programming."The training that we went through is now bearing fruit. From our monitoring visit, things are moving on well, and by the end of this exercise our media houses should be able to compete on the market and produce content that is favourable for listen...
Kenya’s Catholic Bishops say they are concerned about the on-going strike action by doctors.The Bishops have said it is unfair for Kenyan doctors to abandon innocent patients and have called on the Government to resolve the stand-off quickly.Kenya’s medical professionals have downed tools citing government’s failure to honour the implementation of a Collective Bargaining Agreement. (Email: engafrica@vatiradio.va)Below is the full statement:Listen To The Voice Of The Suffering Poor“ ...... He took pity on them and healed their sick” (Mt. 14:14)Introduction We the Catholic Bishops of Kenya express our deep concern over the ongoing Doctors and Nurses strike that has caused the Kenyan citizens pain, misery and suffering of unimaginable proportions.Helpless sick and frail people, children and the elderly including premature babies and accident victims have been abandoned to suffer and die in horrifying conditions while medical professionals and G...
Vatican City, Dec 9, 2016 / 05:21 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Friday, the Vatican announced that Bishop John O. Barres of Allentown – who was baptized by the famed Archbishop Fulton Sheen – will be taking the helm in the Diocese of Rockville Centre.“I must…thank the priests and the entire people of God of the Diocese of Allentown, where I have had the great blessing of serving as bishop for the last seven-and-a-half years,” Bishop Barres said in a Dec. 9 press release announcing his appointment.“You will all always be in my heart, my memories, my prayers and my Masses as I remember our days of ‘holiness and mission’ together.”A native of Larchmont, N.Y., Bishop Barres, 56, has led the Diocese of Allentown since July 2009, and will take over in Rockville Centre for retiring Bishop William Murphy, who has reached the age limit of 75.His transfer will make him the first bishop of Allentown in their 55-year history to ever be transferre...
IMAGE: CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano, handoutBy Cindy WoodenROME (CNS) -- In two long interviews with Jesuitpublications, director Martin Scorsese described his new film"Silence" as a major stage in his pilgrimage of faith, a pilgrimagethat included flunking out of the minor seminary, investigating other religionsand recognizing that the Catholic Church was his home.Growing up in New York, "I was extraordinarily lucky,because I had a remarkable priest, Father (Frank) Principe. I learned so muchfrom him, and that includes mercy with oneself and with others," Scorsesetold Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, editor of the journal La Civilta Cattolica."This man was a real guide. He could talk tough, but henever actually forced you to do anything -- he guided you. Advised you. Cajoledyou. He had such extraordinary love," the director said in the interview,published Dec. 9.A day earlier, America magazine released an interview withScorsese conducted by Jesuit Father James Martin, who also pro...
By COLUMBUS, Ohio (CNS) -- Astronaut legend and decorated World War II pilot John H. Glenn, who served for 24 years in the U.S. Senate and inspired young people to pursue careers in sciences and engineering, died Dec. 8. He was 95. Born in Cambridge and raised in nearby New Concord, Glenn was propelled to fame after being one of seven military test pilots chosen as the country's first astronauts. He was the third American in space and the first to orbit earth when he flew aboard the Mercury Friendship 7 capsule, traversing the globe three times in a flight that lasted just less than five hours Feb. 20, 1962.Among those watching Glenn's first space flight was St. John XXIII, who asked to be kept regularly informed about the progress of flight.Glenn became the oldest man to fly in space, when at age 77 and still a senator, he blasted into orbit on the Space Shuttle Oct. 29, 1998, after lobbying the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for two years that he could serve as a "g...
DALLAS (AP) -- Actor Judge Reinhold says he's "embarrassed" that he was taken to jail after a confrontation with security agents at Dallas Love Field Airport....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Kirk Douglas is officially a centenarian....
NEW YORK (AP) -- With a DNA profile but no suspect to match in the strangling of a woman who went for a run and met a killer, authorities are looking to an emerging approach: using the DNA to look for the killer's relatives....
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Dylann Roof hesitated for about 20 seconds when an FBI agent asked him what he was doing on the night nine black church members were killed during Bible study....
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday that America will stick with Afghanistan for years to come as a new U.S. president takes over what is already America's longest war....
