NEWS 2017 - “Being a sign of hope in a dead city, destroyed and without a future, means to draw hope from the Source of Life and Hope that is Jesus Christ. Our eyes have seen the cruel reality. In these very difficult moments, only hope in God has given us the strength to move forward.” With these words, Fr. Ibrahim Alsabagh, a 44-year-old Franciscan priest...
EWS 2017 - We have just received this sad news from the Comboni Missionaries Sisters: we invite you to pray for their families and for the Congregation. “Dear Sr. Patricia, I am writing to you on behalf of Sr. Luigia Coccia, Superior General of theComboni Missionary Sisters, and her Council to inform you and all the Religious Congregations about....
NEWS 2017 - “Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana” (DDU-GKY) is one of the programs of the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) – Government of India. These programs work with the vision of transforming poor rural youth into an economically independent and globally relevant workforce. These programs focus on poor rural...
NEWS 2017 - What motivated the Dominicans in the 18th century to establish a community at the heart of the Nineveh Plains? An exposition at the Dominican friary of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva in Rome, which runs until June 17, offers a collection of Iraqi manuscripts never shown to the public before—dating from between the 13th and 19th centuries...
NEWS 2017 - Preparations to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the arrival of the Gospel in the Philippines (in 1521) is underway throughout the country: "To prepare oneself properly for this important event, the Church in the Philippines in the Philippines has set a nine-year cycle (from 2013 to 2021) that will culminate with the anniversary of the Holy Year...
