Dr. Priscilla Busingye has a God-given passion to improve maternal health across Uganda, particularly in rural places where women often can’t get specialized care and dignified treatment. For years, Busingye would wake up before 6 a.m. for morning devotions and mass before heading to work
“. . .and the night spreads a new lightthat no darkness can obscure, andperennial faith shines forth.” – St. Ambrose From the window it beckons: Come!Come, you who dwell in shadows.Come, you who slouch in despair.Come, you whose body is aging.Come, you who no longer care.Come,
A priest of the Congregation of Sons of Mary Mother of Mercy was kidnapped in Nigeria Tuesday while traveling to his father’s funeral. Fr. Valentine Ezeagu was driving in the southeastern Imo state of Nigeria Dec. 15 when four armed men came out from the
Hungary’s Parliament passed a law Tuesday defining the family as having a woman as the mother and a man as the father, effectively banning adoptions by same-sex couples and complicating adoptions by single people. The change is the latest of several to be made in
August 4th should have been the happiest day in the life of Jad, a young Lebanese man. It was the day when his wife Christelle gave birth to their son, Nabil, in St. George’s Hospital, in Beirut. Their happiness lasted just 15 minutes. For at
I grew up in a Muslim family on the coast of Kenya. My father served as an Imam, and I was one of the muezzins (Muslims who call others to pray five times a day) at a local mosque. The only school I ever attended
Marcus Roberts You are probably aware that Japan has some demographic challenges that it is grappling with. That is a bit of an understatement: Japan is having to deal with a rapidly falling birthrate, a continually ageing population and a shrinking workforce and overall population.
A month after the release of the McCarrick Report, some of the dust has settled, and it is possible to better digest the mass of information published. It is possible, then, to turn more soberly to the question of the impact of the McCarrick Report on
A ban on headscarves for elementary school students was discriminatory and unconstitutional because it singled out Muslim girls’ headscarves, the Austrian Constitutional Court has ruled. The court said the law banning headscarves for girls under 10 years old “contravened the principle of equality in relation
The Patron of the Universal Church is barely mentioned in the Gospels. In fact, John and Mark do not mention him at all, and Luke only refers to St. Joseph twice –once in Jesus’ genealogy, to establish his belonging to David’s bloodline, and once in the
Praying the Rosary
Familiarize yourself with the prayers of the rosary.
