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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis will celebrate a special Liturgy of the Word in memory of the "New Martyrs" of the 20th and 21st centuries on Saturday, 22 April.A communique from the Holy See Press Office said the prayer will take place in the Basilica of St. Bartholomew on the Tiberian Island, which is located in the heart of Rome on the Tiber River.The Liturgy of the Word celebration is organized by the Sant'Egidio Community and takes place at 5 PM.A separate communique released by the Sant'Egidio Community said the Basilica of St. Bartholomew held special significance:"The Pope's prayer in a place, which - since the Jubilee of 2000, at John Paul II's behest - contains the memoirs of contemporary martyrs, takes on a very special significance in these times marked by the suffering of so many Christians in the world and by the light of Easter."
The discovery of the body of a 12-year-old Indian girl who was trafficked to work as a maid in southern city of Bengaluru, has raised fresh concerns about other children trapped in domestic servitude, police said on Tuesday. Preliminary investigations suggest the girl had fallen to her death from the ninth floor apartment where she had worked for two years after being sent to work for a couple in Bengaluru by a New Delhi-based agency, police said.The child's death has prompted police to launch an investigation across the southern state of Karnataka to find other girls who may have been recruited by the same agency to work as maids, senior police officer Hemant Nimbalkar said. "She was trafficked and our probe suggests that the placement agency that sent her to Bengaluru also sent many other young girls," Nimbalkar told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "There appears to be a big network operating." There are an estimated 50 million domestic w...
More than 800 Catholics held palms and sang songs in a procession to the St. Columban's Church compound in Myiktyina, the capital city of Myanmar’s conflict-stricken Kachin State, marking Palm Sunday on April 9. Bishop Francis Daw Tang of Myitkyina Diocese the Mass with priests and urged the faithful to reflect on the sins of pride and egocentricity before renewing themselves and their faith.Kachin State has been the scene of on-and-off civil wars since Myanmar gained independence from the British in 1948. Fighting resumed in 2011 in the Christian-majority region after a 17-year ceasefire broke down. Since then, more than 100,000 people have been forced into internally displaced people camps and many churches have been destroyed.State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi made a rare visit to Kachin State on March 28 to convince ethnic armed groups to sign a ceasefire ahead of the second Panglong peace conference in May. She also met with Christian leaders. "T...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday appointed 13 new Consulters for the Vatican's Secretariat for Communications.The appointments were released in a communique from the Holy See Press Office.These include:- Rev. Fr. Ivan Maffeis, under-secretary for the Italian Episcopal Conference;- Fr. José María La Porte, dean of the Faculty of Institutional Social Communication of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross;- Dr. Peter Gonsalves, S.D.B., dean of the Faculty of Social Communication Sciences of the Pontifical Salesian University;- Fr. Eric Salobir, O.P., Promoter General for social communications for the Order of Preachers;- Fr. James Martin, S.J., Jesuit Magazine America;- Fr. Jacquineau Azétsop, S.J., dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Pontifical Gregorian University;- Dr. Paolo Peverini, lecturer in Semiotics at the LUISS “Guido Carli”;- Dr. Fernando Giménez Barriocanal, president and delegator advisor of Radi...
