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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
On 18 November 2012, the Bishops of the North African Episcopal Conference held their General Assembly for the first time in Sicily, Italy in response to the invitation of His Excellency Domenico Mogavero, Bishop of the Mazara del Vallo diocese. (Bishop Mogavero had already taken part in two preceding meetings of the Bishops of North… Read more »
With the Motu Proprio Latina Lingua, Benedict XVI has set up a Pontifical Latin Academy, dependent on the Pontifical Council for Culture. The purpose of the new Academy will be to promote and make the most of the Latin language and culture, in particular in Catholic educational institutions since, as the Pope said, knowledge of… Read more »
Pax Christi International, the worldwide peace movement, conferred its 2012 Peace Award on John Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja, Nigeria, for his efforts to promote understanding between people of different faiths in a country in which socio-political conflicts threaten to poison the traditional peaceful living together of Christians and Muslims. In a world in which religions… Read more »
The World Association of Community Radio Stations in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Latin American Radio Education Association and the Bostezo Cultural Association have invited community radio stations and popular educational broadcasting stations in Latin America and the Caribbean to participate in a radio contest entitled Disseminating Local Stories Abroad.The purpose of the contest… Read more »
The International Vittorino Colombo Prize was awarded this year to Fr. Bernardo Cervellera, Director of the AsiaNews Agency. Fr. Cervellera, a PIME religious, is passionately dedicated to his mission as a journalist and is deeply esteemed throughout the world for his news reports and profound analyses of the vast continent of Asia and its problems…. Read more »
