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Twenty young people from Laos who will join the Asian Youth Day in Indonesia in August, took part in a formation camp over the weekend in the Laotian capital Vientiane. Three Thai formators conducted the camp at the youth development center of the Sisters of Charity, June 17-18, where the young Catholics from three out of the country’s four ecclesiastical jurisdictions were given exercises in team-building and strengthening their English skills. A Filipina, who has volunteered at the development center for a year, also joined the camp.A volunteer youth leader Joseph said he is thrilled to have the chance to meet other young Catholics at the Asian Youth Day to be held in Yogyakarta in Semarang Archdiocese, July 30-August 6. He told UCANEWS the youth meet will “won't just be about our new Laotian cardinal or the 17 martyrs beatified last December that will make the Laotian faith community known to the universal Catholic Church." "The young peopl...
Caritas the social arm of the Catholic Church is supporting flood-hit villages in northeast India following heavy rains and landslides that hit more than 70,000 people. In response to the situation, Caritas India has rushed support to 12 villages in Lakhimpur district in the state of Assam. There, they organized free medical camps and distributed "hygiene kits" that include antibacterial soap, shampoo, toothpaste, to about 1,000 flood-affected families.A depression last week in the Bay of Bengal moved in to Bangladesh and beyond to northeast India bringing in torrential rains causing floods and landslides, especially in hilly areas. "We are also planning to distribute mosquito nets to the affected families," Thangsha Sebastian, state officer for northeastern unit of Caritas India, told UCANEWS on Tuesday. Sebastian said that in many places there is still a foot of stagnant water in village houses. "The situation is very unpredictable...
Sunday, the feast of Corpus Christi, or the Body of Christ, was solemnized in Bali, Indonesia, with 181 children receiving the First Holy Communion. Father Herman Yoseph Babey, parish priest of the Holy Spirit church in Denpasar, celebrated the Mass, in which the whole community participated with great enthusiasm. The children, who went through a five-year preparation, came from 18 different basic ecclesial communities, and were on an average ten years old. In his homily Fr. Babey said that after receiving the Body and the Blood of Jesus, the life of children can no longer be for themselves, but is to be shared and lived in the service of others. “We hope that after receiving the Eucharist, these children will let themselves become involved in the Church's various activities and that their parents will encourage them to do so," said Fr. Babey said. “First Communion for those who receive it is the beginning of par...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Tuesday travelled to two small towns in northern Italy to pay homage to two Italian parish priests of the past century who championed the poor and challenged powerful prelates to step outside their comfort zones. Arriving by helicopter in Lombardy town of Bozzolo to pray at the tomb of Don Primo Mazzolari, Pope Francis was greeted by Cremona Bishop Antonio Napolioni who announced the process to beatify Mazzolari will start on September 18th.Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: Don Mazzolari, who died in 1959, was the parish priest of Bozzolo. He was also a scholar who wrote about St. Francis and Blessed John Henry Newman, an anti-fascist activist who opposed the Mussolini regime and an ardent champion of the poor. Sanctioned for a time by diocesan authorities, Mazzolari was a friend of Pope John XXIII and praised by the future Pope Paul VI. Pope Francis’ lengthy tribute to Mazzolari – whom he described as Italy&rs...
Barbiana, Italy, Jun 20, 2017 / 05:55 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Tuesday Pope Francis made a pilgrimage to the graves of two 20th century Italian priests, reflecting on charity and education, and calling on adults to form their consciences well, so that they may teach young people to do the same.Addressing educators, Pope Francis said June 20, “Yours is a mission full of obstacles but also of joys. But above all it is a mission. A mission of love, because you cannot teach without love and without the awareness that what you give is only a right that you recognize, that of learning.”“This is an appeal to responsibility. An appeal to you, dear young people, but first of all, adults who are called to live the freedom of conscience in a genuine way, as a search for the true, the beautiful and the good, ready to pay the price that this entails.”The Pope’s June 20 pilgrimage to the small Italian towns of Bozzolo and Bariana took place in commemoration of the 50t...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler OrsburnBy Josephine von DohlenWASHINGTON(CNS) -- After almost 12 years as an Episcopal priest, Deacon Jonathan Erdmanentered into full communion with the Catholic Church along with his family in2016 and a year later, he is becoming a Catholic priest.Hewill be ordained a priest of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. PeterJune 29.Thisspring, 590 men entered the priesthood in dioceses throughout the United States,according to a report released by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops inWashington. The report is based on an annual study that the Center for Applied Research inthe Apostolate conducted for the USCCB.Leadingto his joining the Catholic Church, Deacon Erdman felt something in thebackground repeatedly calling him to the church, but he said he continuallyfound new ways to distract himself."Ithink often when one hears God calling, a response can be thinking of anexcuse," Deacon Erdman said in a phone interview with Catholic News ServiceJune 14. ...
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BEIRUT (AP) -- The U.S. military said it shot down an Iranian-made, armed drone in southern Syria on Tuesday, marking the third time this month that that the U.S. has downed aircraft affiliated with Syrian President Bashar Assad's government....
