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The message which carries the meaningful title of “All the Churches for All the World,” invites the local Churches of every continent “to a shared awareness of the urgent need to relaunch missionary action in the face of the many serious challenges of our time.”
Bombay archdiocese in western India plans to launch a campaign against tax evasion. Father Anthony Charanghat, the archdiocesan spokesperson, said the world’s “socially unjust” tax havens, along with tax evasion by wealthy firms and individuals, directly affect the welfare of the poor.
“In some of the poorest countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, there are no toilets – private or public” said the London-based NGO End Water Poverty, after a survey and the world campaign ‘Water and Sanitation for Everyone’.
The environmental magazine Grist has rated Pope Benedict, who rides an electric popemobile and has installed solar power at the Vatican, as among the world’s top religious leaders on “green” issues.
Benedict XVI said, in a meeting with volunteers that closed his trip to Austria, that human societies need volunteerism. “Love of neighbor is not something that can be delegated,” the Pontiff said. “The state and the political order, properly concerned with the relief of the needy and the provision of social services, cannot take its place.”
For his pivotal role in the integral growth of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC), the Ateneo de Manila conferred the Bukas Palad Award upon Fr. Edward F. Malone, a Maryknoll Missionary.
The therapeutic potential of spirituality has always been a point of discussion. It emerged from the results of a recent survey published in ‘Archives of Internal Medicine’ magazine that one third of Americans turn to prayer as a source of good health.
In a 13-page report, the Fides news agency of the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples takes a look at the death penalty, calling it “cruel and unnecessary.”
To supply modern lighting to over 250 million Sub-Saharan Africans by 2030 in an ecological and inexpensive manner without the use of fossil fuel is the goal of a ‘Lighting Africa’ initiative launched with the contribution of the World Bank.
St. Jude Thaddeus, the intercessor for desperate situations, forgotten causes, hospital workers, is called the Patron of Hopeless and Desperate Cases. A young devotion in the Philippines, is becoming more and more popular. His countless devotees attest that he truly is the Saint of Last Resort.
