South Sudan: Kuron Peace Village – Devastating Floods
St Joseph’s Advocate Ireland – Autumn 2020
Autumn 2020
India: Bishops of Jharkhand Support Recognition of Tribal Religion
“We are campaigning for the cause of the Sarna code and our people are going from village to village to make people understand the importance of this campaign,” Santosh Tirkey, general secretary of Ranchi’s Kendriya Sarna Samiti, told UCA News. “There are around 150 million followers of Sarna in India and we have been demanding recognition…
Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer
A new national landmark which aims to profile a million answered prayers has been given the go ahead to be built on a site near Coleshill on the outskirts of Birmingham. The Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer, which will eclipse the size of the Angel of the North, will stand at 169 feet and is expected…
Basankusu DR Congo: Ordination Patrick Lonkoy Bolengu MHM
Today, Sunday 20th September 2020, the Catholic community of Basankusu, DR Congo, joyfully celebrated the priestly ordination of Patrick Lonkoy Bolengu MHM together with diocesan candidate Sillas Bangamba Bondola by the local ordinary, bishop Joseph Mokobe Ndjoku. The ordination took place at the Cathedral of St Peter and Paul in Basankusu, DR Congo. Two local…
Getting the Point: The Parable of the Labourers in the Vinyard
One thing we have to realise often about the parables Jesus tells is that he is not necessarily approving of the behaviour of the lead character in the story, far less adopting the political, economic or social policy which the central figure may be shown to be putting into practice. Jesus might identify God with…
Human agency – not divine intercession – will beat virus
India is one of the countries hardest-hit by Covid-19 with more than 4.8 million recorded cases and over 79,000 deaths. The Indian Catholic Bishops Conference has organised “web prayer meetings” in response. A bishop declared that Pope Francis had called for such prayer on May 3rd last. The aim of the meeting, the spokesman claimed,…
Father Cas Rietbergen MHM has died. RIP
It is with regret that we inform you of the death on the 16th day of September, 2020 in the Missiehuis Vrijland, Oosterbeek, at the age of 86 of Father Cas Rietbergen Mill Hill Missionary May he rest in peace Cas, as we knew him affectionately in Mill Hill, was born on the 25th of…
Malaysia: Floods Wreak Havoc in Sarawak
It has happened again: exactly 10 years down the line. And it has come without mercy. The last time Sarawak experienced heavy floods like the current one was in September 2010. Indeed the flood in most parts of Sarawak wreaked havoc and rendered many homeless and without basic needs. Most of the places that are…
Cameroon: ‘Perspective of Growing Chaos’ – Bishop Abraham Kome.
There has been a tense political atmosphere in Cameroon after President Paul Biya announced the first Regional Elections scheduled to take place on December 6 in the Central African nation, according to a local media report September 7. Regional elections in Cameroon are provided for in the 1996 Constitution but have never taken place. The anticipated…
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The Magazine of the Mill Hill Missionaries in Scotland Autumn/Winter Edition
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