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Vatican: webinar on the challenge of new media and digital platforms

The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences promoted, starting on 12 May, a three-day online event on the theme Changing media in a changing world, involving media scholars, philosophers, anthropologists and economists. These days of reflection analysed the challenge for man and society posed by the new digital communication platforms, which, as the preparatory document of…

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The lay ministry of catechist 

Pope Francis instituted the Lay Ministry of catechist. “The reception of a lay ministry such as that of Catechist will emphasise even more the missionary commitment proper to every baptised person, a commitment that must however be carried out in a fully secular manner avoiding any form of clericalisation,” the Pontiff writes in the apostolic…

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ITALY
Communications Week and Festival 2021

From 1st to 16th May the Paulines SSP & FSP organised the sixteenth edition of the Communication Week with events entirely online. The aim is to talk about culture and communication, drawing inspiration from Pope Francis’ message for the 55th World Communications Day: ‘Come and see’ (Jn 1:46). Communicating by encountering people where and as

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World Book Day 2021

World Book and Copyright Day is celebrated every year on 23 April thanks to UNESCO, which sponsored the event to promote reading and book publishing. The Day was officially established in 1995, when during the 28th UNESCO General Conference in Paris, 12 countries proposed to launch the initiative. World Book Day aims to remind people… Read more »

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KOREA
Pauline Bookshop renovated in Daegu

There are 15 Pauline Book Centres throughout Korea. Among them, the Daegu Book Centre has been, since its inception in 1972, a place of meeting, prayer and support for the whole archdiocese. Thanks to God’s providence and the intuition of Fr. Peter Damiano SOHN Ki-cheol, director of Jeonin Hospital, some years ago, work of renovating… Read more »

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ITALY
2nd International Webinar: Scrutinising the Scriptures with the Fathers of the Church

The Central Commission for the Biblical Year, together with the Gruppo Editoriale San Paolo and the Department of Biblical Theology of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, proposes the 2nd international webinar dedicated to the “prayerful reading” of the Word: after the Jewish perspective explored in-depth last 26 November, focused on the Fathers of the…

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Rashtriya Gaurav Award to Sr Pauline Chakkalakal

INDIA

The India International Friendship Society, a leading Indian NGO, has conferred on Sr Pauline Chakkalakal, of the Daughters of St Paul, the prestigious Rashtriya Gaurav Award, in recognition of her achievements and contributions. The award was presented along with a Certificate of Excellence. Sr Pauline Chakkalakal is a founding member of the inter-religious programme…

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CONGO
Joy in Kisangani: the First Bible Week

The grace and joy of the Pauline Bible Year 2020-2021 have reached the equatorial forest in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the city of Kisangani. The community of the Daughters of St. Paul, three aspirants and the Pauline Cooperators, responding to the invitation of Fr Maximilien Lobanga, pastor of the Cathedral… Read more »

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