Young Gather for WorldPeace

About 250 young people from various faiths gathered recently for an interfaith youth forum to gain a better understanding of their different religions and to work together for a more peaceful world.
The Shalom Foundation’s Interfaith Youth Cooperative Action for Peace (IYCAP) wing and a Buddhist monk from Wailuwon monastery in Bago Township organized the event called “Meeting towards cooperative action” at the Wailuwon monastery on September 24.

CARDINAL GEORGE ISSUES ‘CHALLENGE OF MISSION’ TO YOUNG PEOPLE

Madrid, Spain, Aug 18, 2011 / 02:54 am (CNA).- Cardinal Francis George of Chicago has challenged World Youth Day pilgrims to respond to the initiative that God has already taken in their life.

“I want to tell young people that faith is a response to God’s initiative and that his initiative in creation and in history culminates in Jesus Christ who give us a name that enables us to enter into friendship with God,” Cardinal George told CNA during a morning catechesis session for English-speaking pilgrims on Aug. 17.

“And I want to tell them they should figure out their response in their own life – a response to evil, a response to the challenge of mission,” he added.

Cardinal George addressed over 1,000 youngsters at the Church of St. Teresa and St. Joseph in central Madrid’s Plaza de Espana. With all the pews taken, pilgrims found whatever space they could on the church floor, balcony or even the street outside.

In the Jungle of Myanmar. The Story of a Missionary Proclaimed Blessed

ROME, May 23, 2011 – The beatification of John Paul II has rocked the whole world like a hurricane. "But there are also other exemplary witnesses of Christ, much less known, whom the Church joyfully points out for the veneration of the faithful": this is what Benedict XVI said at the "Regina Cæli" two Sundays ago.

Humble, ordinary saints – including those who will never get a halo – are a key theme in the preaching of pope Joseph Ratzinger. For him, the saints are "the greatest apologia for our faith." Together with art and music, he has often added; and much more than the arguments of reason.

Myanmar Catholic Community Gathering, Philippines

Quake victims to get new homes

Karuna Kengtung Social Service says it will start a housing plan after the rainy season to accommodate victims of the March earthquake in the northern Shan state.
But those affected and made homeless may have to wait up to a year in temporary shelters.
Quake victims’ main concerns are for their livelihood and the education of their children and psychological scars remain, according to Father Stephen Ano, the service’s director.



source:uccanews

Pope Benedict XVI's Palm Sunday Proclamation: With the Lord to the Heights

Beatification of Fr Clemente Vismara, PIME missionary, “Patriarch of Burma”

Milan (Agenzia Fides) – The Beatification of Father Clemente Vismara, PIME (Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions), will be celebrated in Piazza del Duomo in Milan, Sunday, 26 June. He is known as the “Patriarch of Burma” for having been there 65 years and contributing decisively to the evangelisation of the Nation. Also to be beatified are two other sons of the Ambrosian region: Don Serafino Morazzone and Sister Enrichetta Alfieri. The announcement was made by the Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, with a letter to the diocese, in which he writes: “The next three Blesseds are a wonderful confirmation that God never tires of loving man, who created us with love and from love.