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 Disinformation, defamation, slander are Sins, a slap in the face of Jesus: Pope
Vatican City, 18 May 2013: A Christian must overcome the temptation to "interfere in the lives of others," Pope Francis exhorted at his May 18 daily Mass at Casa Santa Marta. The Pope also stressed that talk and envy do so much harm to the Christian community. Saturday’s mass was concelebrated by Father Daniel Grech of the Vicariate of Rome, attended by a group of students of the Lateran, led by its rector Msgr. Enrico Dal Covolo, and others.
"What is it to you?" Pope Francis began his homily with this question that Jesus asked to Peter when he had meddled in the life of the disciple John, ‘whom Jesus loved.’ Peter, pointed out the Pope, had ‘a dialogue of love’ with Jesus, but then the dialogue is diverted to another track. He suffers from a temptation: ‘to interfere in the lives o ...»
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 Pope receives German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Vatican City, 18 May 2013: Pope Francis received Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany on Saturday in the Vatican Apostolic palace. The German Chacellor later met with the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Dominique Mamberti.
During the cordial conversations, the long history of relations between the Holy See and
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Pope urges imitation of Mary in his tweet
Vatican City, 18 May 2013: Pope Francis urged the faithful to imitate Mary in her discipleship of Christ, in a tweet published on Saturday morning.
“We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life’, wrote the Pontiff.
The Pope has more than six million followers on Twitter, among whom 2.5 million are English-speaking. The Pope’s Twitte ...»
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 Pope Francis calls Ecclesial Movements to Rome for Pentecost Vigil
Vatican City, 18 May 2013: Tens of thousands of men, women and children descend on the Vatican to celebrate the Pentecost Vigil together with Pope Francis on Saturday. Pope Francis has called the New Movements and Ecclesial Communities to Rome to invoke the Holy Spirit upon them and their continued mission in the life of the Church. Similar celebrations had also taken place during the time o ...»
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The problem is not with being a sinner, but with being humble and repenting, says Pope
17 May, 2013 - The fact that we all are sinners is not the problem. The real problem is not allowing ourselves to be transformed by the love of Christ. This was the gist of the homily of Pope Francis at Mass Friday morning in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta residence in the Vatican. He was reflecting on the relationship between Jesus and Peter, starting from the day’s Gospel reading where th ...»
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 Pope addresses Pontifical Mission Societies
17 May, 2013 - Pope Francis on Friday met the national directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) from more than 120 countries, and spoke to them of the urgency of finding new ways to help God’s grace touch the heart of every man and woman. The four Pontifical Mission Societies, namely, Propagation of the Faith, St. Peter the Apostle, Holy Childhood and Missionary Union, that functio ...»
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 Islamist judges and blasphemy charges, new weapons against Christians
Cairo, 18 May 2013: Judges affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist imams are jeopardising the safety and survival of Egypt's Coptic Christians, sources, anonymous for security reasons, told AsiaNews. Backed by controversial Attorney General Talaat Abdhallah, more and more judges are in fact accepting allegations of blasphemy and insults to religion.
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Trafficking gang 'smuggled Bangladeshis into Brazil'
17 May, 2013 - Brazilian police say they have identified a gang specialising in trafficking Bangladeshi nationals into the country. According to BBC. About 80 workers have been lured by their own countrymen with promises of earning up to $1,500 a month. But they ended up as slave labour in order to pay their smugglers nearly $10,000, police say. South America's biggest economy has recently seen ...»
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 ‘Outraged’ by rising death toll in Syria, UN demands halt to all violence
May 16, 2013: Expressing grave concern at the continuing escalation of violence in Syria, the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, adopted a resolution reiterating its call for rapid progress on a political transition, “which represents the best opportunity to resolve the situation […] peacefully.”
Adopted by a vote of 107 in favour to 12 against, with 59 abstentions, the Assembly tex ...»
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UN’s Ban urges ‘holistic approach’ to fight terrorism in Africa
May 14, 2013: From the Horn of Africa in the east and across the Sahel to the west, terrorism continues to pose a threat to the continent’s peace, security and development, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday as he warned that Africa was facing a rise in the presence of extremist groups and terrorist entities.
In remarks delivered to the United Nations Security Council’s open debate o ...»
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 Pope to visit Italy’s Sardinia island
Sedoc - Pope Francis on Wednesday announced he would visit the Italian island of Sardinia, probably in September.” Addressing a group of Sardinian pilgrims and bishops present at his weekly general audience the Pope said he will pray at the sanctuary of Our Lady of Bonaria in the regional capital, Cagliari.
In announcing his visit, for which a date has not been announced, the Argentine Pop ...»
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The Vatican Radio started its English broadcast for South Asia in 1958, with a weekly 10-minute news transmission. Jesuit Father Thomas O’Donnell was its first Director and the broadcast was specially made for India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. In 1964 South Asia got a boost when Pope Paul VI visited Bombay, India for the World Eucharistic Congress from 2nd to 5th of December. Consequently, in 196 ...» |
Pope Francis on 18 May 2013
We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life.
Pope Francis on 17 May 2013
Are our lives truly filled with the presence of God? How many things take the place of God in my life each day?
Pope Francis on 16 May 2013
We cannot be part-time Christians! We should seek to live our faith at every moment of every day.
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Vatican City, 18 May 2013: With the touch of an iPad, Pope Francis became the first pontiff to unlock a new smartphone application and expanded the Church’s footprint in the digital world.
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Vatican City, 18 May 2013: Christians should become more actively engaged in the post Arab Spring political process taking place in their country, said Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, the former Vatican ambassador to Egypt. He was speaking to Vatica ...» |
May 15, 2013: Hundreds of worshippers attended Wednesday’s Divine Liturgy officiated by Kirill, the patriarch of Moscow, in Shanghai's Mother of God Surety of Sinners Orthodox Cathedral. It was the first religious service in the church for over 5 ...» |
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May 15, 2013: On Tuesday, May 21 Christians in Amman will start off a silent march with candles to demand the release of the two bishops of Aleppo, Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim (Syrian Orthodox) and Boulos al-Yazigi (Greek Orthodox) in the hands o ...» |
May 15, 2013: The beating of a Coptic Orthodox priest on 4 May only a few metres from the Holy Sepulchre, during Holy Saturday celebrations, has become a major issue after an amateur video surfaced online, later posted on the Jerusalem Post website ...» |
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| The Faithful Witness -Year of Faith Sp. |
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Acts 2:1-11; 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13; Jn 20: 9-23
More than a century ago, a great sailing ship was stranded off the coast of South America. Week after week the ship lay there in the still waters with not a hint of a breeze. The captain was desperate ...» |
Acts 1: 1-11; Eph 1: 17-23; Lk 24: 46-53
Leonardo da Vinci had started to work on a large canvas in his studio. For a while he worked at it – choosing the subject, planning the perspective, sketching the outline, applying the colors, with his ow ...» |
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Acts 15:1-2, 22-29; Rev. 21: 10-14, 22-23; John 14: 23-29 St. Francis of Assisi was an ardent advocate of the doctrine of the indwelling of God in man. It enabled him to love every one equally whatever his status in life. One day he met a fellow wh ...» |
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Bhubaneswar, India, 18 May 2013: Nearly 14 years after Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons were burnt to death by a mob in Odisha 
17 May, 2013 - Building the Body of Christ. This will be the motto of Fr. John Rodrigues, whom Pope Francis on Wednesday appointed one of the tw 
Quetta – 
(May 15, 2013) Pope Francis on Wednesday appointed two Aux. Bishops for the Archdiocese of Bombay in western India’s Maharashtra State. They are Fr 
May 14, 2013: A law introduced three years ago to ensure universal education for all children violates minority rights and it needs to be amended 