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They call on Congolese citizens to “peacefully resist the balkanization of our country, depopulation and occupation of the land through national cohesion and the refusal of treason, favoring the surge of patriotism alongside our Armed Forces.” The Bishops also express their concerns about gross human right abuses in the Central African nation saying, “The impetus…
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Oran (Agenzia Fides) – “I symbolize the mission in Algeria which I have been experiencing for more than 10 years, like a jug full of fresh water representing the love of God with which we are filled and the way in which He offers himself to the people we meet”, writes to Agenzia Fides Sister…
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However, what is significant is that you are more likely to be persecuted if you are poor and politically weak. Since most Christians in South Asia are such, they become a ‘soft target’ for criminal or terrorist gangs who use religion as a cloak for their violence. How often today have you heard of the…
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Our two Mill Hill missionaries in Cambodia, Glenn Diaz en Jacob Chilka sent this picture.
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“I am walking to pray and plead on the one hand for dialogue, justice, peace and reconciliation in the North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon and on the other hand to do penance for the reparation of crimes against human dignity committed in these regions,” Fr. Ludovic says. He adds, “I walk so that human…
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“Where the most vulnerable and needy are, there are also the missionaries”
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Pluscarden Abbey is a remote Benedictine monastery on the edge of the Scottish Highlands in Moray and is home to 21 monks. It is the oldest practising monastery in the United Kingdom, dating back to the medieval era. The monks live by the 6th-century Rule of St Benedict and life has changed little in hundreds…
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The community of Poor Clares of Arundel – long time friends of mine – have recorded an album featuring beautiful plainchant melodies. It comes with my heartfelt recommendation! Fons Eppink The album features original chants set to music composed by James Morgan and Juliette Pochin. Buy or Listen
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Reflecting on the theme, the Ugandan Cleric says, “God is asking, whom shall I send, even in this time of COVID-19. Our response should be, here am I, send me.” On her part, the National Secretary of the PMS of St. Peter the Apostle in Uganda, Sr. Stella Maris Niwagira says that donations collected on…
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Cardinal Ambongo Besungu of Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is the most recent addition to the group of Cardinal Advisors tasked with assisting the Pope in the government of the Universal Church and in the drafting and revision of the new Apostolic Constitution that will replace the Constitution Pastor Bonus promulgated by Pope Saint John…
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Pope Francis, within the first few paragraphs of his newly published encyclical ‘Fratelli Tutti’, informs us that “millions of people today…are deprived of freedom and forced to live in conditions akin to slavery” #24. With over 27 million people currently in slavery worldwide, it is easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the…
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