TESTIMONY - Dear Brothers and Sisters, Warm greetings from Rome! After the hectic activity of our Jubilee Year, we are now trying to follow up on the many new commitments we have made! One of the recurrent themes from our Jubilee was the importance of us renewing our preaching to be advocates of peace (like Dominic)...
TESTIMONY - The liturgical memory of Mother Teresa of Calcutta fell on 5 September. Sisters brought rice, red lentils, biscuits, and clothes to 130 Christian families, an example of Mother Teresa's real love to the needy in the slums. On 5 September, the day of the liturgical memory of Mother Teresa of Kolkata (Calcutta), the Missionaries of Charity of Odisha...
NEWS 2017 - On presenting the Vatican’s drugstore, in its Italian edition of Saturday, August 19, 2017, L’Osservatore Romano paid tribute to the generations of Religious of the Order of Saint John of God, who have carried out this service since 1874. From restructuring the perfumery to the equipping of the laboratory “with modern technologies...
TESTIMONY - During the past ten years, children in the Central African Republic have grown up in the context of almost permanent war. They have been recruited by the various militias as well as by the regular forces and then been sent as cannon fodder to the front lines, forced to fight for one side or the other, to carry out the most appalling atrocities...
TESTIMONY - Entrusted to the Salesian Province of the Southern Philippines, the Salesian presence in Pakistan continues to flourish. At the exact anniversary of Fr Noble Lal's priesthood ordination, the first Pakistani Salesian priest, which took place in Lahore on the occasion of the Feast of Mary Help of Christians, a new Salesian of Pakistan...
MESSAGES - It isn’t possible to «understand» anything of God without experiencing grace, love and communion. I say experience in the most human and intricate meaning of this word. To have the experience of grace means being capable of offering yourself freely as Jesus did in the Incarnation emptying himself and assuming a condition as a slave...
TESTIMONY - Newark – Beneath the curved wooden ceiling at Bethany Baptist Church, New Jersey’s faith leaders Thursday night vowed to stand alongside those targeted under the White House agenda — and build their own wall of resistance to President Trump’s policies. “Not on our watch will anyone have to stand or fight alone,” said the church’s pastor...
TESTIMONY - A group of young Comboni missionaries who evangelize in different missions across South Sudan has attended a five days workshop on “personal integration of values and communication dynamics in the mission”. The group of young evangelisers, brothers and priests, meets every other year to share missionary experiences and reflect...
TESTIMONY - Like nuns everywhere, the Benebikira Sisters, the oldest indigenous congregation in Rwanda, have sisters who are teachers, nurses, pharmacists, formators and administrators. But they also have religious with a unique title: Sister Listeners. "The genocide created many problems...
TESTIMONY - Fr. Philipp Renczes SJ, Director of the Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. Father Philipp Renczes is professor in systematic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Since 2011, Father Philipp has been the director of the Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies...
NEWS 2017 - Sr. Kathleen Melia is recovering in a Manila hospital after she was attacked outside her convent in a remote island in the southern Philippines on March 1. She underwent surgery to repair a broken leg, suffered in the attack in Midsalip on the island of Mindanao. She is already starting physical therapy...
