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WORLD DEBT
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Who is affected by the International Debt? The Debt........it's a killer |
Pope John Paul II and Debt Relief The Last Look |
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A New Year, Full of Hope,
Full of Promise Uncover Your Face Reverence for the Earth |
Reflections from the Frontier Let God Easter in Us Reverence for the Earth |
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JPIC
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PERU: No mea culpa for Camisea MANILA: Payatas revisited |
Murky origins
take glitz off Easter Bunny's eggs Jim Mulroney SSC [Hong Kong] |
MISSION |
MISSION: Mother of the Church and of Theology
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Pope Benedict's Address to Diplomatic Corps - 2006
IRELAND: Witnesses to the Faith
The
Elderly and Society
Cardinal Migliore at the UN
HOMILY of Cardinal Keith Patrick
O'Brien at
RED MASS, St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh
"Mission ...today more
than ever"
Late Fr Niall O'Brien SSC
WORLD
MISSION SUNDAY
Link to PMS Website for Mission Sunday
MISSION SUNDAY 2005
Message prepared by Pope John Paul II
UN General Assembly: Gender Equality, Development and Peace in the 21st century
MYANMAR: ASEAN leaders want Suu Kyi freed
Rioters clash with police over unpaid wages
Vatican approves government-appointed Bishop in Shanghai
Improving Relations - China and Vatican [UCAN]
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Dublin
Faced With This Crisis
George Monbiot
Walking Forward by Kevin O'Rourke SSC
World Bank urged to take its own advice
Africa's new best friends
George Monbiot
May we stand idly by?
Cyril Lovett SSC
Bards of the powerful
George Monbiot [The Guardian 21/06/05]
Faith in Europe - Lecture
Series
At the invitation of His Eminence, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, leading
politicians, thinkers and campaigners share their vision of Europe for
the 21st Century. [Courtesy of Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster]
The Noodle Man
Warren Kinne SSC [Far East Magazine]
Brazil Bishops send appeal to Vatican
Christianity and Paganism
Sean O'Conaill [Far East Magazine]
Apocalyptic Spirituality: Soul
of the Mission
Jose Cristo Rey Pardes CMF [SEDOS]
BRAZIL: Struggle for the 'Promised Land' continues [Latinamerica Press]
PHILIPPINES: Greenpeace hits Bt corn
anew
[GM Watch]
PAKISTAN: Ministries of Women in the Church
IRELAND: 'Send illegal GM maize back to US': says GM-Free Ireland Network [....continue]
MYANMAR: "The Blacksmith
of God" [Asianews]
Piero Gheddo
Divided Families
Two items by Fr Bobbie Gilmore SSC illustrates the pain and anguish of
being a migrant.
Colours of Mission
Gloria Canama SSC-LM
New Hope for Prisoners
Sr Angela McKeever SSC
Action for Reach Out
Action for Reach Out was officially set up in
1993 as a charity to help women working in the sex industry in Hong Kong.
Columban Sister Ann Gray writes
about the project...
Ministry among
the Subaanen
Frank Hoare SSC describes the ministry of Brendan Kelly SSC among the
Subaanen people, Philippines
Four more chemicals to be added to the 'dirty dozen'
A Game of Double Bluff
George Monbiot [THE GUARDIAN]
Andean Potatoes in Europe
Andres Gaudin
Indigenous Women organize
in Ecuadorian Forest
Luis Angel Saavedra
Eucharist in Fiji
Pat Colgan SSC
Does this shock you?
Reflection: Columban Sr Redempta Twomey asks the question - Is attending
Sunday Mass simply something Catholics do?
"Only God could inspire such foolishness"
Harry O'Carroll SSC tells us how perpetual Adoration flourishes in Japanese
parishes.
PHILIPPINES: Deeds needed to prevent
violence
The "reality"
that Filipinos are getting "poorer and angrier" has led Bishops
Labayen, Iniguez and Tobias to push for "concrete alternatives"
espite the risk of criticism from outside and inside the Church.
PAKISTAN: Archbishop Saldhana welcomes 'fatwa' by Muslim clerics against suicide attacks.
Can Genetically Modified food
harm your health?
Sean McDonagh SSC asks serious questions about the danger and points to
the fact that sufficient research has not been carried out on the potential
health risks...
Junk Science
George Monbiot refutes David Belllamy's theory that the world's glaciers
are growing and consequently there is no global warming...
The Contribution of Christianity
to the Future of Europe
Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP [ICN]
A Journey of Hope
The millions of people around the world who have left their
home countries in search of work are largely driven by a combination of
poverty and insecurity.
By Bobby Gilmore SSC, Director of the MIGRANT RIGHTS CENTRE IRELAND, 3
Beresfort Place, Dublin 1
Surrogate Mothers
by Bobbie Gilmore SSC
Divided Families
by Bobbie Gilmore SSC
THE FIRST WORD THE CHILDREN LEARN TO
SPEAK IS 'AGUA'
Presentations Sisters Eileen Kearney and Marg Kehoe who live with 4,000
Peruvian families tell us about the their 'water problems'.
ADDRESS
OF JOHN PAUL II
to
H.E. Mrs Leonida L. Vera Philippine Ambassador to Holy SEE
A Very Good Spot to be in...
Ed O'Connell SSC writes about life in Peru.
An Idol Thought
Harry O'Carroll writes about his
parishoner, Tera Toko-san,
who provided a replacement for the wayside shrine in Japan
Another World is Possible
by
John McLaughlin SSC writes abouit the Third
World Social Forum, held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2003.
Are
We Missing the Real Story - Christian - Muslim Relations
by Tom Michel
SJ
A Theology of Environment
by
Paul McCartin SSC
Will Biotech Agriculture Feed
the World?
by Sean McDonagh SSC
...we are
More Than just Consumers
by Brendan Lovett SSC
The
Bottom of the Barrel
by George Monbiot
A Pillar
of Community
by Pat McCaffrey SSC
China
Calling
by Nicholas Murray SSC
SABAKAN:
Place of the Sacred Story
Sr
Breda Noonan SSC
Women
of Peru
Leo
Donnelly SSC
Briared
Daffodil
Des Hartford SSC
Building
Bridges in Puente Alto
by Columban Sisters and Priests and Associates
Called
to Give Light
Report of the Mission Week to celebrate Columban Golden Jubille
in Peru
Preaching Hope from Prison
Cardinal
Van Thuan, Vietnam
Mission? ...today more than
Ever
Niall O'Brien SSC
Pre-emptive Strike
for Peace
Niall O'Brien SSC
Farmers'
Day - Philippines
Bishop D. Gutierrez, CBCP - Commission on Social Action,
Justice and Peace
"Insensitive to their deplorable plight, government
has enacted laws and other measures that expose Filipino farmers to the claws
of globalization." NASSA
A
Bitter Harvest
Fr Tom Browning SSC tells of seven mountain
villages
in Taiwan who struggle with the
'agriculture progress' imposed by the outside
world.
Church
Condemns Torture of Youth - UCANews
Death
of Christian Youth in Forced Conversion Case.
Surrogate
Mothers and Divided Famillies
Fr Bobby
Gilmore SSC illustrates the pain and anguish of being a migrant.
Defending
the Defenceless
Fr Peter O'Neill discovers the pain of an Indonesian Migrant
worker in Taiwan.
GM
Corn threatens Mexican Farm Economy
A panel convened by a watchdog group
created by NAFTA warns that Mexico's fields have been contaminated with GM corn,
posing a risk to the country's 60 varieties of maize.
International
Religious Communities in a Multicultural World
Antonio
Pernia, SVD - Superior General
Wheat
Biopiracy
Vandana
Shiva ZNet
Homily by Fr Cyril Lovett at Funeral Mass of Niall O'Brien - Dalgan Park
Homily by Fr Colm McKeating at Removal
Christian Brothers protest at Australian claim to East Timor oil
This
is What We Paid For
George Monbiot shows
how foreign aid can benefit the donor countries more than the recipients.
Surrogate
Mothers and Divided Famillies
Fr Bobby
Gilmore SSC illustrates the pain and anguish of being a migrant.
"The
Most Dangerous Woman in the United States"
Mary Harris Jones when
aged 72 was so described by a Federal Representative.
Bearing
Witness
Eight Columban Lay Missionaries describe something of their missionary
experience in Lima, Peru.
Death of a Child
Poem
by Fr Thomas O'Brien SSC (1918 - 1995)
To participate in MEDIA ACTION
in behalf of the Environment go to
Rainforest
Action Network
World Ruled by Transnational
Corporations
by Sean McDonagh SSC
Tuning
into God
by Sr Redempta Twomey SSC -
Our desire, our willingness to spend even a little time each day quietening down,
creating space for Him, will sharpen our focus and move us to a new level of living
Looking
for Something More
Sr
Redempta Twomey SSC
Partnership
in Practice
Sr Redempta Twomey SSC
"No matter what else is going
on in our lives, or in the world, we always remember how much we need one another"
Honduras:
Thousands march to save environment
10,000 march to save the forest.
Statement
by H.E.Mary Ann Glendon to ECOSOC
UN meeting Re Action for Least Developed
Countries
GM CORN threatens Mexican farm economy
Philippine Bishops plan assistance for Myanmar Church
The
Redemption of Monica
Columban Sister Angela McKeever relates the story
of Monica who cried "Please do not close the door to me...."
Filipino
Migrants
Fr Shay Cullen SSC writes about Filipino migrants "who brave
the waves and travel into the unknown world of diverse cultures".
Citizenship
in a Global Economy:
Why exclude the Weak?
Bobbie Gilmore SSC
Why
do Missionaries get involved in Justice and Peace Issues?
Fr
Brendan Lovett
Women need empowerment for Effective
Social Change
Social change can happen
only with the participation of women, asserts Archbishop Pakiam, India.
Parishes
are Schools of Formation
Fr Ed O'Connell SSC addresses the National Justice
and
Peace Network in London
The Pros and Cons of
GE food
Fr Sean McDonagh SSC
"Genetic engineering has the potential
to threaten the very diversity of life on our planet."
War
on 4 x 4
George Monbiot
"Switching from an average car to a big
4x4, the Sierra Club calculates, uses as much extra energy in twelve months as
leaving your television on for 28 years"
The
Asian Family towards a Culture of Life
Working Paper - FABC 8th Plenary
Session
August 17 - 22 Daejeon, Korea
"Beautiful
but Confusing"
Parliament of World Religions - Muslim Christian Relations
Citizenship
in a Global Economy:
Why exclude the Weak?
Bobbie Gilmore SSC
IMF
and World Bank must cancel their Debt
While
claiming to fight poverty the IMF and World Bank are draining the lifeblood out
of the poorest countries in debt payments. The IMF and World Bank are the most
significant creditors of the poorest countries in our world.
Scraps
from the Streets of Lima
Fr Ned Crosby sees the consequences of Debt every
day on the streets of Lima. Peru
Archbishop Robert Sarah addresses FABC
Cardinal Man of Ho Chi Minh City addresses FABC
Poverty
seen as Bases for Asian Theologizing
An
FABC colloquium has affirmed an Asian way of theologizing that proceeds from local
experience in an overall context conditioned by pluralism and common factors such
as poverty.
FROM CORK TO PERU and
BACK
Dermot Carthy SSC
CORRESPONDENCE relating to item GOODBYE, KIND WORLD [below] - George Monbiot and David Bellamy
GOODBYE, KIND WORLD
George
Monbiot writes "the party is over. We've never had it so good, and we never
will again.
RICE:FOOD FOR THE POOR
Cyril
Lovett SSC
REVERENCE FOR RICE and LIFE
Barry
Cairns SSC
BACK AFTER 38 YEARS
Sr Bernadine
Rush SSC
"STORIES HOLD and CRADLE US"
Sr
Redempta Twomey SSC
MISSIO DEI and THE PROJECT
OF JESUS
Paulo Suess
Jesuits in Zambia critique Vatican - US Conference
IRISH
GOVERNMENTS'S U-TURN ON INTRODUCTION OF CARBON TAX
Sean McDonagh's Letter
to Irish Times
25 Years after Puebla
Fr
Peter Hughes SSC reflects on how the
Church in Latin America has changed in the 25 years since the Third General Conference
of LA Bishops 1979
[FAR
EAST Magazine]
The Negros Nine Revisited - 20 Years
later
Interview with Frs Niall O'Brien and Brian Gore
Partnership in Practice
Sr Redempta Twomey SSC offers some good advice for sustaining relationships
PAKISTAN: Desecration of Churches at Sangla Hill, Lahore
"If I had a hundred lives... I'd still
be a missionary"
Columban Sister Marie Fay
Volunteer for China? ....at my
age?
Hugh McMahon SSC
Covert biotech war
George Monbiot
Feeding the Hungry or Corporate Greed?
Sean McDonagh SSC
Facing the dictatorship of
relativism
Sean O'Conaill
Women are the backbone of the Philippine
nation
Fr Robert Reyes [Sunday Examiner]
Flight into Ireland
By Siobhan O'Donoghue (MRCI)
A New Year's Revelation
Columban Sr Rebecca Conlon
Beautiful Lotus
Columban Sr Ann Gray
PAKISTAN: Seminar on protection for religious minorities [Fides]
INDIA: Farmers call to stop BT Brinjal [GM Watch]
Mons Silvano Tomasi addresses the 93rd ILO Conference
PHILIPPINES: Bishop suggests closure of Rapu-Rapu mining operaton [UCAN]
Church leaders rally against Constitutional Change [UCAN]
Lumad people want their farmlands back [Mindanews]A Dream Come True
Ollie McCrossan SSC