Monthly Archives: March 2023

Flimkien

About 60 delegates from various church backgrounds met in Rome from 12 to 15 March to prepare the event “TOGETHER | Gathering of the People of God”. This ecumenical gathering will take place on the weekend of 30 September in Rome, in advance of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, which will discuss the theme of Synodality.

Daniel Darmanin, President of the local Justice & Peace Commission and member of the Executive Committee of Justice & Peace Europe took part in this preparatory meeting which ended with a private audience with Pope Francis… Kompli aqra »

El Hiblu 3: Erba’ snin wara

On 28 March 2019, Abdalla, Amara, and Kader, known as the El Hiblu 3, first set foot in Malta. They could have never imagined that, four years on, they would still be stuck in legal limbo. The nine preliminary charges against them, including hijacking a vessel, threatening its crew, and engaging in terrorist activities, still hang over them, preventing them from living dignified lives in freedom… Kompli aqra »

L-ospitalità u l-barrani

Dan l-aħħar iltqajt mal-istorja ta’ Najib Nasary, refuġjat mill-Afganistan li ħalla art twelidu biex ifittex bidu ġdid fi Franza. Ma kellu xejn, ma kien jaf lil ħadd, u ffaċċja t-theddida ta’ deportazzjoni. Imma meta n-nies ta’ raħal fil-muntanji Cévennes ta’ Franza laqgħuh, fl-aħħar sab dar ġdida u skopra fih ukoll passjoni ġdida għall-ħajja.

It-triq ma kinetx facli ghal Najib. Wara li wasal Franza, Najib iffaċċja ħafna sfidi hekk kif ipprova jibni ħajja ġdida għalih innifsu f’pajjiż barrani… Kompli aqra »

In-numri u r-reżistenza għall-bidla

“Humanity is called to recognize the need for changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat this warming or at least the human causes which produce or aggravate it. Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.”

(Pope Francis, LS. 23. 204)

Numbers are not everything… Kompli aqra »

Governanza tajba

Jekk “l-onestà, il-ġustizzja, is-sens tad-dmir u t-trasparenza huma pilastri essenzjali ta’ soċjetà ċivilment avvanzata” (il-Papa Franġisku f’Malta fis diskors lill-Awtoritajiet, lis-Soċjetà ċivili, u lill-Korp Diplomatiku), kif sejra Malta f’dan il-qasam? Filwaqt li kulħadd donnu jaqbel li Malta jeħtieġ li tħaddan dawn il-prinċipji ta’ governanza tajba, in-nuqqas ta’ fiduċja u ċ-ċiniżmu li n-nies juru lejn dak kollu li hu politiku qed jiżdied b’rata allarmanti.

Ma’ Dr Lawrence Gonzi, li kien prim ministru ta’ Malta, u Dr Evarist Bartolo, li kien ministru ta’ l-edukazzjoni u ta’ l-affarijiet barranin, niddiskutu r-realtà kumplessa tal-ħajja politika f’Malta… Kompli aqra »