https://acnmalta.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/42-2015-pastorali-santa-marija-2015-booklet.pdf Din l-Ittra Pastorali, li hi t’importanza kbira għall-familja u għas-soċjetà, qed tiġi ppublikata bil-kortesija tal-E.T. Mons. Mario Grech JCD, JUL, Isqof ta’ Għawdex. https://acnmalta.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/42-2015-pastoral-letter-assumption-2015-balm-of-mercy-for-the-family.pdf This Pastoral Letter is being published with the courtesy of H.G. Mgr. Mario Grech JCD, JUL, Bishop of Gozo.

Sierra Leone                                                                                                                 20.08.2015Sierra Leone is a nation that has seen its share of hardship, suffering through both a ten-year civil war ending in 2002 and the recent Ebola crisis. Mons. Henry Aruna , National Director of the Pontifical Mission in Sierra Leone,  spoke of this hardship and other concerns on [...]

Hakha, Myanmar                                                                                                          17.08.2015 After large floods, a cyclone and landslides in parts of Myanmar, Aid to the Church in Need expresses its solidarity with Myanmar’s flood victims.Königstein, 17.08.2015. The Catholic aid organisation Aid to the Church in Need has promised prayers and emergency aid on a case by case basis for [...]

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Iraq  06.08.2015- 120,000 baptized are still living as refugees after a year of the invasion of their peoples Daesh (Islamic State) Behnam Benoka is a young Syrian Catholic priest of Ankawa, the Christian Quarter of Erbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. On the night of 6 to 7 August last year [...]

Ukraine 13.08.2015When the massive statue of Lenin in Kharkiv was to be demolished, it was feared that it would topple over and its weight would break through the ground, beneath which ran the underground railway. But when the statue was broken up into many pieces, the truth was revealed: it [...]

Al Qaryatqyn, Syria 10.08.2015There is great concern in Syria following the kidnapping of dozens of Christians by the terror group “Islamic State”Homs/Königstein,  10.08.2015. “We do not know what ‘Islamic State’ intends to do with the hostages,” Father Jihad Youssef, a member of a Syrian-Catholic religious order, told the Catholic pastoral [...]

August 13, 2015Cardinal John Tong Hon brands removal campaign in Zhejiang 'illegal'Cardinal John Tong Hon of Hong Kong has issued an “urgent appeal” to Communist Party chiefs in Beijing, calling on them to order a halt to an ongoing cross-removal campaign in Zhejiang province.“I sincerely and urgently appealed to the [...]

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China July 31, 2015Ceremony seen as possible benchmark for state of Vatican-China relationsWhen Father Joseph Zhang Yinlin is ordained bishop of Anyang in Henan province on August 4, he will become the first publicly ordained Chinese bishop in three years and the first since the Vatican and China restarted its dialogue [...]