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(Vatican Radio) Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, has given statements at two panels during the International Dialogue on Migration (IDM). The IDM is the International Organization for Migration’s principal forum for migration policy dialogue.Addressing a panel on “Implementing the SDGs [sustainable development goals] and Other Major Frameworks,” Abp Auza said, “At the heart of forced migration is lack of solidarity and often wilful neglect of our neighbors’ most basic needs, such as access to quality education, decent work, adequate housing and primary health-care.” For this reason, he said, “our first and most basic work must be to answer the basic needs of our brothers and sisters and to ensure their peace and security at home. This is also the fundamental purpose of the Goals we set out for ourselves in the 2030 Agenda.”At a second panel focussed on &ldq...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has written a letter of encouragement to the Marist Brothers who are celebrating the bicentenary of their foundation.Remarking on their primary mission which is the education of young people, the Pope said “an educator’s work is one of constant devotedness demanding sacrifice; but, education is a work of the heart and that is what makes it both different and sublime.”Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni:  In his letter addressed to the Superior General of the Marist Brothers, a religious community of more than 3,000 Brothers working to impart an education to some 600,000 young people in Marist schools around the world each year, Pope Francis reflected on the Order’s two centuries of existence, which he said,  have been transformed into a great story of devotedness to children and young people welcomed from over the five continents, forming them into good citizens and, in particular, into good Christians.However, ...
Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle has urged his faithful to fill the ‘spaces’ that the risen Lord provides to fill them with light, love and mission, stressing that money could not corrupt the truth about Jesus’ Resurrection.  “For Christians, the Risen Jesus provides the sure hope that justice, mercy and love are stronger than evil and death,” the Archbishop of Manila said in his homily on Easter Sunday.  He focused on two perspectives of the Resurrection.Commenting on Matthew’s Easter narration, the prelate said that the soldiers guarding the tomb were bribed to spread the lie that the body of Jesus was stolen by his disciples.  “This mode of acting sadly continues in our world,” the cardinal lamented saying “hope in Jesus is forcibly discredited by offers of other sources of security and hope that money could buy.”  “But,” he noted, “this only leads to greed, corruption, manip...
The Latin rite archbishop of Kerala, in a letter dated April 15 has urged the Government not to interfere in the administration of church properties. Archbishop M. Soosa Pakiam, president of Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council (KCBC), wrote to the secretary of the Kerala State Minority Commission to assert the fundamental right of Christians to manage and administer church property.The prelate was responding to an email letter the secretary sent to KCBC seeking its response to the Kerala Christian Church Properties and Institutions Trust Bill 2009. Bishop Pakiam said he has consulted all dioceses, religious congregations and lay organization.Quoting article 26 of the Constitution and what it entails the prelate asserts that the right to maintain included the right to administer the institutions. The article 26 guarantees not only the right to own and acquire movable and immovable properties but also the right to administer such property in accordance with law, he adds.The ...
The Indonesian Diocese of Ruteng in the predominantly Catholic island of Flores, has vowed to step up its fight against the government issuing the license to a Chinese company to mine gold in a popular tourist destination.  Grand Nusantara Group won the license in 2016 from the East Nusa Tenggara provincial government to mine 2,831 hectares of a coastal area in Batu Gosok, Labuan Bajo. According to the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry there are 300,000 tons of gold deposited there.  The company recently held a meeting in Labuan Bajo with locals and activists, a process that they must go through before starting to mine.  However, locals walked out of the meeting and rejected the company's plan.  Acep, who goes by one name, a representative of Grand Nusantara Group, said they want to hold another meeting and hope their efforts will be welcomed.However,  Bishop Hubertus Leteng of Ruteng, popular for his long-standing opposition to the project, urged ...
By VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- If U.S. President Donald Trumprequests a meeting with Pope Francis in May, the Vatican will try to make itwork, a top Vatican official said."Pope Francis always is willing to welcome heads ofstate who ask," ArchbishopAngelo Becciu, Vatican substitute secretary of state, told the Italiannews agency ANSA April 19.Trump is scheduled to be in Taormina, in southern Italy, May 26-27 for a summit of G-7leaders and representatives of the European Union.SeanSpicer, White House spokesman, told reporters April 19, "We will bereaching out to the Vatican to see if a meeting, an audience with the pope canbe accommodated. We'll have further details on that. Obviously, we would behonored to have an audience with his holiness."Every U.S. president since Dwight D. Eisenhower has visited the Vatican to meetthe pope. Eisenhower met St. JohnXXIII at the Vatican in December1959.But WoodrowWilson was the first sitting U.S. president to meet a pope at the Vatican. He metwith Pope B...
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) -- A Soyuz space capsule on Thursday safely delivered an American astronaut making his first space flight and a veteran Russian cosmonaut to the International Space Station....
BOSTON (AP) -- Aaron Hernandez's apparent suicide in prison - just days after the former NFL star was cleared of additional murder charges - remains shrouded in mystery....
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