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Church and World Events

The devastating wildfires that ravaged Hawaii and destroyed more than two thousand buildings in the town of Lahaina, on the island of Maui, inexplicably spared the Church of Maria Lanakila. “Nothing else but Maria Lanakila” is the phrase that was repeated on social media after a local resident posted a …
Editorial team - 30, September 2023

Church and World Events

This year Caritas Spain completes seventy-five years of service. The institution came into being in the difficult post-war period both nationally and worldwide, with a view to addressing the great hardships the population was facing at that time. In 1947, the founding statutes were drawn up, constituting Caritas as we …
Editorial team - 31, July 2022

Church and World Events

This year’s Círio de Nazaré procession, one of Brazil’s most important religious events, drew over two million devotees from all over the country. The float that carried the statue of Our Lady of Nazareth from the Metropolitan Cathedral of Belém to the Basilica of Nazareth took five hours to complete …
Editorial team - 30, November 2024

Church and World Events

Poland’s most popular Marian shrine, the Jasna Gora Monastery, is set to break yet another visitor record this year. According to its press service, between May and July alone, 112 groups of 14 thousand pilgrims had already flocked to the site to venerate the icon of the Black Madonna of …
Editorial team - 30, September 2024

Church and World Events

The members of France’s National Commission for Heritage and Architecture unanimously rejected the project to replace the medieval stained glass windows in the chapels on the south side of Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral with contemporary pieces. The decision that pushed back against the revolutionary proposal is based on the principles …
Editorial team - 31, August 2024

Church and World Events

Between February 23 and 25, the Rosary for Men movement held the traditional pilgrimage of its members to the National Shrine of Aparecida, the sixteenth edition of the event. According to the event’s organizers, the pilgrimage drew more than eighty thousand faithful from all over the country to the feet …
Editorial team - 30, April 2024

Church and World Events

On February 1, Ireland celebrated the 1500th anniversary of the death of St. Brigid of Kildare, one of this nation’s patron saints. Deceased in 524, she is considered by many to be the pioneer of female monastic life in the country, a notable figure for the authority she exercised there …
Editorial team - 31, March 2024

Church and World Events

The Catholic community in Bangladesh is experiencing a surge in devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Holy Rosary, thanks to various evangelizing initiatives of Holy Cross Family Ministries, present in the country’s eight dioceses. These include six hundred and eighty catechesis programmes on the Rosary, as well as …
Editorial team - 30, November 2023

Church and World Events

On one of the world’s most dangerous borders, a group of nuns from the Visitation Order prays daily for the conversion of North Korea, according to the report made by one of the Sisters from the community to the Spanish magazine Misión in its latest edition. Their monastery – located …
Editorial team - 31, October 2023

Church and World Events

On March 17, the pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fatima arrived in Lviv, in western Ukraine, and was welcomed by hundreds of faithful awaiting Her in the Church of the Nativity, where She began her visit to the city. Before the Russian invasion into Ukrainian territory, the Greek-Catholic Archbishop …
Editorial team - 30, April 2022

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