Follow up World Communications Day : Malawi _______________________________________ Malawi “Radio Tigabane”: pastoral and social programmes for northern Malawi Reinhard Backes, ACN International Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN Canada Malawi is one of the world’s poorest countries. On the United Nations Development Programme’s 2011 human development index, this south-east African state ranks […]
Bangladesh “It is intended to trigger chaos by means of violence” Reinhard Backes, ACN International Adapted by Robert Lalonde, ACN Canada The violent excesses committed by Islamist groups in Dhaka on May 5th, last Sunday, have given rise to great concern among many Bangladeshis. The Archbishop of Dhaka, Patrick D’Rozario, explained this in […]
For the next three days, our focus will be on World Communications Day, the official day being May 12, 2013 and which is an invitation to believers from every diocese to pray for the work done by the Catholic Media and offer a donation to assist them. Today, media presence is necessary for the work […]
ACN International Adapted by Robert Lalonde, ACN Canada Nigeria is going through a time of trial and horror – and not only since the attacks by the Islamist terror group Boko Haram. For years now a succession of conflicts has torn at this vast West African nation. Everywhere, among ordinary people, there is a longing […]
By ACN International Adapted by Amanda Bridget Griffin, ACN Canada Montreal, May 7, 2013 – “Growing corruption and religious violence jeopardise the West African country of Nigeria.” This stark warning by Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja, was given during his recent presentation to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament in Brussels. Cardinal […]
Sister Maria, you have been consecrated to the religious life for over 10 years. Can you tell us about the journey you took to make this important decision? In my village, there is a grotto with a statue of the Virgin Mary. Each year, in the month of February, pilgrims gather to spend a week […]
Now that you have become acquainted with IFHIM’s Student Choir by listening to their interpretation of the Prayer of Saint Francis – we would like you to see a dance offered by some of the African sisters from the institute and interpreted to a musical piece sung by the same choir entitled: MAGNIFICAT MÉSI BONDYE . […]
In yesterday’s article titled The Builders of Bridges, we summarized what took place at the evening of peace and gratitude, organize by the students of l’Institut de formation humaine intégrale de Montréal (IFHIM). In this article, we told you about a choir whose song was the Prayer of Saint Francis, sung in the Portuguese language. […]
On April 6th, I had the privilege of attending an evening performance expressing the peace and gratitude of the students from l’Institut de fomation humaine integrale de Montréal (IFHIM) (Institute of Human Integral Training) to all of their benefactors, of whom you are included. This week we would like to offer you this article about the evening […]
Help for the training of seminarians Thanks to the generosity of ACN’s benefactors, eight seminarians from the diocese of Santarém are able to continue their studies. “The fact that we can count on such people who help us so generously, without expecting anything from us, fills me with great joy,” writes one seminarian. “I […]
