“To Revitalize Our Solidarity for Deeper Evangelization in Today’s Complex Reality”: this was the theme of the 17th Plenary Assembly of the Association of Consecrated Women in Eastern and Central Africa (ACWECA) held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from 26 August to 2 September. The theme of the Assembly, said Sr. Priscar Matenga, president of… Read more »
The first edition of the Italy’s National Mission Festival, entitled Mission Is Possible, organized by the Conference of Italian Missionary Institutes (CIMI), the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI) through the Missio Foundation, and the diocese of Brescia, will be held in Brescia from 12-15 October 2017. It is hoped that thousands of people will participate in… Read more »
This year, the prestigious peace prize awarded by the Abbey of the Dormition of Mary on Mount Zion, located in Jerusalem, and by the Mount Zion Foundation in Lucerne, Switzerland, was bestowed on Israeli writer Amos Oz. Born in 1939 in Jerusalem, he is one of the most-translated Israeli writers and also a supporter of… Read more »
The Asian Conference of Religions for Peace (ACRP) organized an International Conference of Women Empowerment Against Modern Day Slavery at the University of Santo Tomas in Sampaloc, Manila, from 20-22 July 2017, in preparation for the United Nations World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. At the meeting, representatives of various religious communities, faith-based organizations, and… Read more »
The Pontifical Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life now has an official website: www.laityfamilylife.va, which provides news about the Dicastery, updates on social happenings and videos. On the web site’s home page, we read: “Like our Dicastery, this site has just been born and is evolving.” The new web site features the logo of… Read more »
Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Challenge? This is the theme of a Conference organized by the Pontifical Council for Culture and held at the Italian Embassy to the Holy See. Philosophers, scientists and academics from all over the world attended the event. The purpose of the lively and fruitful encounter was to launch a reflection on the… Read more »
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is the largest film festival in the Czech Republic and the most prestigious one in Central and Eastern Europe. Every year, it presents some 200 films from around the world and regularly hosts famous and important filmmakers. This year, the 52nd edition of the event, the Czech movie Little… Read more »
The African Movement of Working Children and Youth (AMWCY) has made literacy possible for over half-a-million children and girls in Africa. The Movement was born in 1994 in the Ivory Coast when a group of illiterate girls living in extreme poverty and forced labor began gathering together and organizing themselves to claim their rights. They… Read more »
“Being a sign of hope in a dead city, destroyed and without a future, means to draw hope from the Source of Life and Hope that is Jesus Christ. Our eyes have seen the cruel reality. In these very difficult moments, only hope in God has given us the strength to move forward.” With these… Read more »
The Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops has announced the opening of a web site in preparation for the XV Ordinary General Assembly of Bishops on the theme: Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment. The Synod will be celebrated in October 2018 and its website is youth.synod2018.va. This web site, says the press… Read more »
