On November 3-6, 2022, Pope Francis made his 39th apostolic trip to the Kingdom of Bahrain, an island located in the Gulf between Saudi Arabia and Qatar. He was thus responding to the invitation of the civil and religious authorities, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and the Muslim Council of Elders, to attend the “Bahrain Forum for Dialogue: East and West for Human Coexistence.”
Nuns film short musical comedy to help raise money for wheelchair facilities
29 December 2020
By Connexion journalist
Sisters from Saône-et-Loire have set up a musical to finance arrangements to keep elderly nuns in their convent.
The nuns created the online musical comedy in order to finance the necessary arrangements to help elderly nuns stay at the convent.
After one of the sisters had to go to a nursing home, the nuns decided to raise funds to for wheelchair access.
The musical clip of the Apostolic Sisters of Saint-Jean, in the village of Semur-en-Brionnais was posted on December 10.
Today, the video been watched more than 106,000 times on YouTube and has raised more than €135,000 of its €150,000 target.
People participate in a March 23, 2019, procession to commemorate the 39th anniversary of the murder of St. Oscar Romero in San Salvador, El Salvador. The Salvadoran saint was shot and killed March 24, 1980, as he celebrated Mass. (CNS/Reuters/Jose Cabezas)
As El Salvador President Nayib Bukele s administration faces more and more international criticism for alleged authoritarianism and for putting the country s young democracy in danger, a movement of young activists is seeking inspiration from St. Óscar Romero in denouncing injustice and opening new ways toward social change.
Generación Romero (Generation Romero, in Spanish) was created in 2015 as a network of faith communities, social movements and groups of young activists who identify with the prophetic voice of Romero, the archbishop of the capital of San Salvador, who was murdered in 1980.