Year: 2012

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 »

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 »