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"Missionary of Mercy" Fr. Panneer Selvam, part 1
This year’s Ash Wednesday and the Lenten Season have taken on a special connotation and colour, occurring during the Jubilee Year of Mercy. Pope Francis marked the beginning of the church's Lenten journey by sending off several hundred religious and diocesan priests on their own special path as "Missionaries of Mercy" in local dioceses and parishes. At the Feb. 10 Ash Wednesday Mass, the Pope officially commissioned 762 priests from around the world to go out as special Missionaries of Mercy, empowering them to forgive even the sins that are reserved for the Holy See to pardon.
India's church leaders criticize order to fly flag at universities
Indian church leaders have criticized the federal government's decision to require India's flag be displayed at universities to instill a sense of nationalism among students, saying the government misunderstands the issue. The federal ministry of human resource and development Feb. 18 asked the vice chancellors of 39 central universities to "prominently and proudly" display the flag at their respective campuses. The decision has come amid the backdrop of alleged anti-India slogans raised by students at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, forcing the government to press sedition charges against those accused.
Five years after Bahrain uprising hopes for justice, reform fading - AI
Five years after a wave of protests demanding widespread reform rocked Bahrain, hopes for progress on human rights and accountability for past and present abuses have faded, a leading human rights group has said. The mass protests which began on 14 February 2011 were met with violence by the security forces, who shot dead and injured protesters. Others died in custody after being tortured, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
The Polish Bishops in their Letter for the Beatification of Cardinal Wyszyński and Mother Czacka: They Were United by Holiness
May the servants of God Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński and Mother Elisabeth Czacka help us to read their prophetic intuitions when addressing the current pastoral challenges of Christ’s Church in Poland - wrote the Polish Bishops in a Letter on the occasion of the beatification of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski and Mother Elisabeth Rosa Czacka, which will be read in the churches on Sunday, September 5th.
Poland: Archbishop Gallagher appeals for freedom of religion and conscience
Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See's Secretary for Relations with States and International Organisations, addresses the Conference of the Senate of the Republic of Poland on “Freedom of Conscience and Religion in the Context of a Democratic State,” and, following the calls of recent Popes and Pope Francis, appeals for bolstering and encouraging these liberties.
ISKK: Aggression against clergy, places and objects of worship is on the rise in Poland
Half of the priests surveyed say they have experienced aggression in the past 12 months, according to a report by the Institute for Catholic Church Statistics entitled "Dangerous mission? Aggression against clergy, places and objects of worship in Poland", which was discussed by participants at a press conference on 3 April this year at the Secretariat of the Polish Bishops’ Conference in Warsaw.
Archbishop Szal at Jasna Góra: May Polish families be rich in love as the family of the Blessed Ulmas
May Polish families be rich in love as the family of the Blessed Ulmas. May they be for the young generation a catechesis about respect for parents, in-laws, and neighbours in need of help – said Archbishop Adam Szal, Metropolitan of Przemyśl, to the participants of the 39th National Pilgrimage of Married Couples and Families. The Mass was presided over by Bishop Wiesław Śmigiel, President of the Council for the Family of the Polish Bishops' Conference. The spouses traditionally renewed their wedding vows. The event launched a peregrination of the Blessed Ulma Family in the sign of their relics.
The President of the Polish Bishops’ Conference to the Orthodox and Catholic Bishops of Russia and Ukraine: Let us join spiritual efforts to avert the specter of another war
Let us unite the spiritual efforts of Christ’s followers of various denominations in Russia, Ukraine, and Poland to avert the specter of another war in our region – this was the appeal of Archbishop Stanislaw Gądecki, president of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, in a letter to the Orthodox and Catholic bishops of Russia and Ukraine, including the Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill.
