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India: Mother Teresa Award
Conferred on Two Female Victims of the Taliban
The Fifth Mother Teresa International Award for Social Justice was conferred this year on Sima Samar, the former vice-president of Afghanistan, and on Mala Yousufzai, the Pakistani teenager who was shot by the Taliban for defending the rights of women. In bestowing the award, Abraham Mathai, president of the Harmony Foundation, which organizes this annual… Read more »
Message of the Pope for World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro
In his message for the next World Youth Day, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 23-28 July 2013 on the theme, Go and make disciples of all nations (Mt. 28:19), Pope Benedict XVI invites young people to be the first missionaries among their contemporaries, in particular in the world of the… Read more »
SOUTH AFRICA What Counts Is Faith
Il Giornalino Wins City of Chiavari Award
This year, the panel of judges for the National City of Chiavari Award conferred this prize on the Pauline publication, Il Giornalino, declaring it to be the best children’s magazine in the 7-11 age group thanks to “the incentive it offers children from the cultural and educational perspectives and also for the high quality of… Read more »
FSP Provincial Chapter Begins in Korea
The Daughters of St. Paul of Korea are celebrating their Provincial Chapter from 15-30 November. The event, which is being held in the city of Yeoju, focuses on the theme of our upcoming 10th General Chapter: “We believe and so we speak” (2 Co. 4:13). With bold and prophetic faith we offer everyone the charity… Read more »
International Congress at the Pontifical Gregorian University
Church, Mission and Theology 50 Years after Vatican Council II
The 80th anniversary of the foundation of the Pontifical Gregorian University’s Missiology Faculty (1932-2012) coincides with the 50th anniversary of the opening of Vatican Council II. To celebrate these two significant events and also offer those interested a chance to reflect on the insistent pleas that emerged in the recent Synod on the New Evangelization,… Read more »
Milan: Protagonist in Bookcity Celebration
From 16-18 November 2012, the capital city of Lombardy hosted a Bookcity celebration entitled Milan: City of Books and Reading. The program featured more than 350 events, including book presentations, the chance to meet and speak with authors, public reading sessions, exhibits, performances, dramatized readings, film clips and seminars in which many of the authors,… Read more »