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Secretary General of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU) Fr. Fabrizio Meroni (PIME) has visited Zambia and held a meeting with Priests, Religious, Lay faithful and the Catholic Secretariat staff.And in a meeting with Zambia Catholic Secretariat staff, Fr. Meroni said his reason of visiting is for PMU to be open and be available to listen to the local Church and pay attention to Christian experience in terms of missionary evangelisation.“I [have] come to visit the local Church in order to be helped by your experience to understand if it is possible to reform this pontifical society I have been responsible of for the last 18 months,” he explained.And in the same meeting, the local church representatives noted various challenges faced by the church in Zambia in evangelisation at diocesan and parish levels.The PMU Secretary general is also expected to meet the Association of Zambian Diocesan Catholic Clergy (AZADCC) that will be meeting in Mongu diocese, Religious Men an...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The celebrations of the 100thanniversary Blessed Oscar Romero's birth should be a time to reflect on what itreally means to call someone a martyr, said Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez ofSan Salvador.Too many people in El Salvador "continue to callmartyrs those who picked up arms and died following an ideal" in the country's12-year-long civil war, the cardinal wrote in an article for L'OsservatoreRomano, the Vatican newspaper.The country's real martyrs, the cardinal said, "neverstained their hands with blood," and they were "men and women whostrove to love God and their neighbors."The real martyrs of El Salvador are Blessed Romero,"the assassinated priests and the four U.S. women -- three religious and alaywoman -- whose lives were taken in December 1980," he said, referringto Maryknoll Sisters Ita Ford and Maura Clarke, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazeland Jean Donovan, a laywoman.In addition, he wrote, "we all have a debt that we mustbegin to settle ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Country singer Brad Paisley can carry a tune, but can he land a punchline?...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Federal researchers studying critically endangered North Pacific right whales sometimes go years without finding their subjects. Over the weekend they got lucky....
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A Louisiana private investigator accused of trying to illegally obtain Donald Trump's tax returns before last year's U.S. presidential election has been arrested again....
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Marvin Strombo was behind Japanese enemy lines on a Pacific island during World War II when he realized the other five men in his squadron had moved on without him....
CHICAGO (AP) -- A hair stylist suffered more than 40 stab wounds to his upper body in a fatal attack last month in the high-rise Chicago condo of a Northwestern professor, police said Friday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hard-line conservatives began an uphill fight Friday to force a fresh House vote this fall on erasing much of President Barack Obama's health care law without an immediate replacement, the latest instance of Republican rifts in what's been a fractious week for the GOP....
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump is expected to come home to Trump Tower for a few days starting Sunday, the first time since his inauguration, and New York City police are planning a slight security clampdown in the area around the skyscraper for the duration of his visit....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's escalating feud with his top Senate partner undercuts the president's stalled agenda on tax overhaul and budget while prompting swift pushback from Republican senators who have lined up squarely behind Majority Leader Mitch McConnell....
