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Hope is the central message of the new decree bearing the title Latin Spes non Confundit (“Hope does not disappoint”), with which Pope Francis solemnly proclaimed the upcoming Jubilee Year 2025.
At the seminary for the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSH) in Manila, thousands of plastic bottles and other plastics are being transformed into “ecobricks” that serve as building materials for projects around the grounds of MSC Scholasticate.
In a country devastated by a year of civil war, the Comboni Missionaries opened a place to help the terminally in Port Sudan.
The number of Catholics worldwide increased by 14 million in 2022, according to the Vatican’s 2022 Statistical Yearbook of the Church recently released.
Pope Francis will visit four Asian nations in September making it his 43rd Apostolic Journey abroad. He travels first to Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, where he will land on September 3. Pope Francis will then fly east to visit Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, and Vanimo. His next stop will be in Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste. From there, the pope will travel to Singapore. He will return to Rome on September 13.
A three-day Global Alliance for Banking on Values summit, with the participation of about 70 ethical banks from across the world, wrapped up in northern Italy with a call to embrace the principles of Ethical Finance for the good of humanity and the planet.
The Archdiocese of Colombo has the ardent desire to begin the process of canonization of 171 Catholic faithful killed in the terrorist attack on Easter Sunday 2019, in order to honor their “martyrs of the faith.”
“The intervention of the international community is urgent, otherwise a point of no return will be reached and the dead will be counted in the thousands,” said Father Massimo Miraglio, Camillian Missionary.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pasig has started the cause for beatification and canonization of Laureana “Ka Luring” Franco (in photo), a Filipina catechist with two supposed miracles already under her name.
Human Rights Watch, a global rights group, has slammed governments in Asia for an increase in repression and human rights violations in its World Report 2024. The report blasted Asian governments for various forms of human rights abuses.
