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Returned Missionaries programme 2012
Returned Missionaries programme 2012
The IMU Returned Missionaries office has just published its programme for 2012. We look forward to seeing all our Returned Lay and Religious Missionaries attend many of the events. Please download the programme here
Vatican Awards Sr. Pat (84)
The Pact of the Catacombs (61)Mission Alive Competiton 2011
Essay Prize
1st Emma Synnott c/o Ms D. Buckley, St. Mary’s college, Arklow, Co Wicklow
2nd Aoife Lafferty c/o Ms Staunton, St. Nathy’s College, Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon
Creative Prize
1st Orla Kelleher c/o Ms H. Vaughan, Colasite Treasa, Kanturk, Cork
2nd Prize Ciara Walsh c/o Ms Mc Loughlin, St. Louis HS, Rathmines D. 6
Photographic Prize
Antonina Bugla c/o Ms McLoughlin, St. Louis HS, Rathmines D.6
Special Prizes
Andrew Mc Keown, c/o Ms Reynolds, St Mary’s College, Dundalk, Co. Louth.
Laura Donnelly, c/o Ms Cullen, Presentation Sch, Grogan’s Road, Wexford.
Class prize - 5B c/o Ms Fitzgerald, Mt Anville, Mt Anville Rd., D.14
School prize - St. Louis HS, Rathmines D. 6 (Ms Mc Loughlin)
IMU Retreat & Courses 2012
Not our Debt
The Irish Missionary Union and African European Faith and Justice Network- Irish Antenna support the Not our Debt campaign. Click here for the website and facebook page
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Prayer ResourcesThe Mission Alive desk in the IMU reflects on what our Christian faith informs us about "Mission". Mission Alive hopes to create awareness of what ... Read more |
Pope prayers intentions for 2012VATICAN - The Intentions entrusted to the Apostleship of Prayer for 2012 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Following are the Intentions that the Holy Father Benedict XV... Read more |
Fruitful reading of the BibleFruitful Reading of the Bible The Bible is all around us. People hear Scripture readings in church. We have Good Samaritan (Luke 10) laws, welcome home ... Read more |
The Missionary RosaryTHE MISSIONARY ROSARY Missionaries consider themselves mandated to bring the message of the Gospel to the whole world, especially in view of promoting peace, justice and ... Read more |
Climate Change Day of Prayer on October 4thA Climate Change Day of Prayer on October 4th - St Francis' Day, has been initiated by the Environmental Issues Network of Churches Together in ... Read more |
Prayer Service to end PovertyEvery year Missionaries and supporters of missionaries over ireland and over the world remember October as mission month. As we start October we call on al... Read more |
Returned Missionaries programme 2012
The IMU Returned Missionaries office has just published its programme for 2012. We look forward to seeing all our Returned Lay and Religious Missionaries attend many of the events. Please download the programme here
News Blog
Australia Day 2012 and Irish Sisters
Australia Day 2012, the nation celebrates and reflects and we as Sisters honour ...
Mission Alive
Message of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2012
Message of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI for the World Day of Migrants and Refu...
Justice Office
Letter to Minister ;Access to quality medicines in developing countries
25th January 2012
Access to quality medicines in developing countries: The Anti-C...
Mission Today
India becomes a global mission sending Church
India becomes a global mission sending church
Indian Missionaries in 166 countri...
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AFRICA/SENEGAL - The campaign has started: the opposition is divided and concerns about the stability of the Country 7 Feb 2012 | 8:00 am Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "The election campaign began last Sunday in a minor tone and there were no major clashes" say Church sources to Fides from Dakar, Senegal's capital, where on February 5 the campaign for the presidential elections officially started, preceded by violence linked to the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the outgoing president, Abdoulaye Wade, to compete for a third term (see Fides 02/02/2012).
"At the election campaign candidates participate but do not accept the candidacy of President Wade, and here ambiguous scenarios open, because they seem to reserve the card of not recognizing a possible re-election of the... READMORE_FEED |
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ASIA/CHINA - The path of Evangelization continues waiting for the Year of Faith 7 Feb 2012 | 8:00 am Lin He (Agenzia Fides) - Continue to pursue the path of evangelization to welcome the Year of Faith: was the central theme of the second meeting of the parish of Lin He, in Inner Mongolia, which was held on Sunday, February 5 . According to what Faith of He Bei refers to Fides, during the meeting the pastor summed up the pastoral work carried out in the past year. According to the pastor "the parish has multiplied the announcement and formation in the field of liturgy and catechism; the welcoming of the faithful and the unfaithful was re-organized, to... READMORE_FEED |
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AFRICA/GHANA - Appointment of National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies 7 Feb 2012 | 8:00 am Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on March 3, 2011 appointed Rev. John Addae-Boateng, of the diocesan clergy of Sunyani as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Ghana for the years 2011-2016, the.
The new National Director was born in Abesim on April 19, 1954. After his primary and secondary education in Abesim, he attended the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Knust) in Kumasi, he studied theology in Legon ext, then at the Cape Coast University. Among the positions held: Chaplain and Tutor at St. Joseph's... READMORE_FEED |
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AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Bishop of Santa Rosa: "I am here with you because the pastor, Father David Donis is not here anymore, unfortunately he was killed " 7 Feb 2012 | 8:00 am Cuilapa (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Bernabe de Jesus Sagastume Lemus, O.F.M .Cap., Bishop of St. Rose of Lima, in Guatemala, celebrated Mass in the Church of the Holy Family in memory of the priest, Father David Donis, who was assassinated on 27 January. The celebration in memory of Fr. Donis began on Sunday morning, on February 5, at 10, in a symbolic way, a commitment was maintained that the priest had every Sunday with the faithful, including the marriage of a young couple belonging to his parish, in the village of El Guayabo. The Bishop also celebrated the baptisms according... READMORE_FEED |
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ASIA/INDONESIA - More than 1,000 Catholic children from East Timorese "stolen" and Islamized 7 Feb 2012 | 8:00 am Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - A thousand Catholic children from East Timor, taken away from their families over ten years ago, are being held by force in Indonesia, converted to Islam, educated in Islamic colleges and nationalized. Today, most of them are in schools and shelters in the area of West Java, in the hands of Muslim "educators" who refuse to return them to their families. This is the story Fides learns from Indonesian Church sources, confirmed by some Catholics humanitarian workers who have tried to bring them back, without success, to their families of origin in East Timor
Among the 250... READMORE_FEED |
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AMERICA/MEXICO - The Tarahumara commit suicide because of despair, because they have nothing to eat 7 Feb 2012 | 8:00 am Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Deaths caused by starvation registered among the Tarahumara population, who reside in the current Mexican territory of Chihuahua and other places in the country, where 28 million Mexicans survive are not able to feed themselves appropriately due to weather disasters, drought or frost. According to data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), 58.5 million Mexicans suffer from extreme poverty. In particular, this is caused by "food poverty", ie they have nothing to eat. The Consejo Nacional de Politica de Desarrollo (Coneval) reported an increase of 12.5 million poor in the last six... READMORE_FEED |
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Charles Dickens celebrated at Westminster Abbey 7 Feb 2012 | 4:28 pm Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall attended a ceremony at Westminster Abbey this morning to celebrate the life and work of Charles Dickens on the 200th anniversary of his birth. The great Victorian writer was buried in the South Transept of Westminster Abbey on 14 June 1870. In his Welcome, the Dean of Westminster, the READMORE_FEED |
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Syria: Christians flee Homs as crisis deepens 7 Feb 2012 | 3:56 pm As the government bombarded of Homs entered its fifth day today, the Missionary New Service report that most Christian families have now left the city. This is not because they have received threats - so most churches and places of worship has escaped attack - but because the situation generally is "becoming more dangerous by the hour." READMORE_FEED |
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Vatican: symposium on support for abuse victims 7 Feb 2012 | 3:30 pm An international symposium entitled 'Towards Healing and Renewal' began on Monday evening in the Gregorian University in Rome. The event, which will run until 9 February and brings together bishops and religious superiors from all over the world, aims to relaunch the Church's commitment to protecting minors and vulnerable people from abuse. During the READMORE_FEED |
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Call for law to protect children from on-line porn 7 Feb 2012 | 12:18 pm “Giving porn to a teenage boy is like giving crack to a baby. Addiction is almost guaranteed. No wonder boys aged 12-17 are the porn industry’s core target." Premier Christian Media Trust today launched a campaign urging government to introduce legislation for internet service providers [ISPs] to demand that pornography is filtered at source. READMORE_FEED |
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Somerset: plans for multi-church Academy School unveiled 7 Feb 2012 | 11:47 am An ecumenical Christian Academy School for 4-16 years olds could be launched later this year, if plans by teachers and parents in north Somerset approved. The group are getting ready to submit an application to open a Free School in Weston-super-Mare. They hope to base the school in the Weston library, thus saving this historic building and keeping it as a centre of learning. READMORE_FEED |
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Think about having five meaningful conversations a day 7 Feb 2012 | 8:11 am At the opening of the Mental Health Conference in Leeds last weekend, delegates were asked to think about having five meaningful conversations a day, in addition to the daily intake of five fruit and vegetables. Participants came from across the country to showcase the 11 mental health projects, funded by Day for Life – the day dedicated to celebrating READMORE_FEED |
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Conflict Between Jesus And The Pharisees 7 Feb 2012 | 12:00 pm Throughout the Gospels the Pharisees are presented as being antagonistic to Jesus and his message. We generally think of them as vain and conceited, hypocritical, and the term ‘pharisee’ today has negative connotations. So it may come as a surprise to know that the Pharisees were actually the ‘good people’ of that day. That they were intelligent, righteous, and observant of the Law in every detail.
In fact, they were so righteous that they became self-righteous. They felt they had no need of God’s mercy or forgiveness, for they performed well all that was required of them. Their rituals saved them,... READMORE_FEED |
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Jesuit school helps students celebrate roots 7 Feb 2012 | 5:24 am St Xavier’s Collegiate school in Kolkata has set up a club to help students to immerse themselves in the culture and traditions of West Bengal. According to Father Sebastian James SJ, the school’s vice principal, one of its aims is to train them to be “agents of cultural traditions.”
“Most people think there is no scope for nurturing cultural traditions in Church-run English schools and we wanted to break this myth,” said Fr James, adding that “60 percent of the students now belong to the group.”
The school’s most famous alumnus is the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The students and teachers recently... READMORE_FEED |
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Confict ‘encourages rights abuses’ 7 Feb 2012 | 5:09 am Human rights violations in Kachin state will continue unless there is a negotiated ceasefire, said a member of the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission yesterday.
“As the conflict in Kachin state continues … rights violations will exist. [They] may be the result of a lack of knowledge of human rights,” U Tun Aung Chaing, who is also a retired professor from Yangon Arts and Sciences University, said.
He added that rights violations have decreased in areas where ceasefires have been negotiated or where negotiations for peace have started.
Lahpai Zaw, 38, said he fled with his family from Kachin state to a refugee... READMORE_FEED |
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‘Underground’ administrator dies 7 Feb 2012 | 4:40 am Father Lawrence Zhang Wenchang, apostolic administrator of the three ecclesiastical territories in southwestern Yunnan province – Kunming, Dali and Zhaotong – has died aged 92.
He was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in October and died in his home town in Shilin Yi autonomous county on Sunday.
The Sani-ethnic priest’s body will be on view for seven days so people can pay their last respects according to tribal custom of Sani, a subgroup of Yi-ethnic.
The “underground” administrator, who had no affiliation with the government-sanctioned “open” Church, had lived in Kunming city under police surveillance for years.
Kunming diocese has had no legitimate bishop for... READMORE_FEED |
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Bishop calls for health act revision 7 Feb 2012 | 4:35 am A Catholic bishop yesterday called on the government to amend a reproductive health law that he said encourages women to have abortions.
Bishop Gabriel Chang Bong-hun of Cheongju, president of the Bioethics Committee of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea objected specifically to Article 14 of the Mother and Child Health Act, which was passed in 1973.
“Article 14 … should be abolished because the clause encourages women to have an abortion,” Bishop Chang said during a Mass at Myeongdong Cathedral.
The Bishops’ Conference holds a Mass on the nearest Monday to February 8 each year, which was the date on which the... READMORE_FEED |
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Twitter difficult to block, says priest 7 Feb 2012 | 4:30 am A Catholic priest says the government is wasting its time if it thinks it can censor social networking sites like Twitter to stop people abusing others or committing online crime.
“Twitter is difficult to monitor because anonymous users can simply open another account in other names,” Father Antonius Benny Susetyo, who has 1,485 followers, said today.
Many users of social media use slang words, he added. “So, what kind of mechanism will [the government] use to conduct the censorship?” he asked.
He was responding to a statement issued yesterday by Tifatul Sembiring, minister of communication and information technology, who said his ministry is monitoring... READMORE_FEED |
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Journalist, John Cunningham, dies at 66 7 Feb 2012 | 8:00 pm The death has taken place, after a long illness, of the West of Ireland journalist, John Cunningham. READMORE_FEED |
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Six held arrested Dublin drug seizures 7 Feb 2012 | 7:14 pm Six men have been arrested after the seizure of around €1.5m worth of drugs in two separate garda operations in Dublin. READMORE_FEED |
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Argentina to complain to UN over Falklands 7 Feb 2012 | 6:57 pm Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner said it will present a formal complaint at the UN over Britain's "militarisation" of the situation in the Falkland Islands. READMORE_FEED |
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'Flexible' approach to CE scheme funding 7 Feb 2012 | 6:39 pm The Minister for Social Protection has said her officials were adopting a flexible approach to funding for Community Employment Schemes. READMORE_FEED |
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Govt approves promotions for 33 senior gardaí 7 Feb 2012 | 6:30 pm The Government has approved appointments to 33 top positions in An Garda Síochána to fill gaps left by retirements. READMORE_FEED |
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Marie Collins details abuse at Rome symposium 7 Feb 2012 | 6:24 pm Irish abuse survivor Marie Collins has told a symposium in Rome of the abuse she suffered as a 13-year-old at the hands of a paedophile priest, and the subsequent cover-up. READMORE_FEED |
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VIDEO: Syria risks 'slide into civil war' 7 Feb 2012 | 5:33 pm As Syrian government forces continue their fierce assault on the restive city of Homs, the BBC's Jeremy Bowen says it risks sliding into civil war. READMORE_FEED |
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VIDEO: Nigeria's lead poisoning epidemic 7 Feb 2012 | 5:21 pm Some four hundred children have been killed and many more are at risk after the world's worst lead poisoning epidemic in northern Nigeria. READMORE_FEED |
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VIDEO: Syria's first lady stands by husband 7 Feb 2012 | 1:41 pm The wife of Syria's president Bashar al-Assad has spoken out to defend her husband in a letter to a British newspaper. READMORE_FEED |
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VIDEO: Woman found alive in Lahore rubble 7 Feb 2012 | 1:08 pm Rescue workers in Pakistan have found a 65-year-old woman alive in the rubble of a Lahore factory, 31 hours after the building collapsed. READMORE_FEED |
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VIDEO: Skydiver: My mum's still scared 7 Feb 2012 | 12:42 pm An Austrian adventurer planning the highest skydive in history has announced he will make the attempt later this year. READMORE_FEED |
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VIDEO: Displaced Somalis return home 7 Feb 2012 | 12:30 pm Tens of thousands of Somalis are returning home after fleeing severe droughts in southern parts of the country. READMORE_FEED |
