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The Church has inaugurated a new shelter for women who were victims of domestic violence and their children.
The inauguration held on Mother’s Day was presided over by Archbishop Charles Scicluna.
Il-Milja, a second stage shelter which will be run by Fondazzjoni Sebħ, will welcome women who have experienced abuse or violence including victims of domestic violence, victims of human trafficking, women forced into prostitution or forced to have an abortion.
The second-stage shelter includes 12 apartments which will welcome a total of 36 individuals and is located within Dar Ġesù Nazzarenu in Żejtun.
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Conference to debate sexual abuse of young deaf Catholics
People with disabilities are sexually assaulted at nearly three times the rate of people without disabilities
Updated: May 04, 2021 05:34 AM GMT
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The first international conference on sexual abuse of young deaf Catholics will take place May 7 and May 21 during webinars organized by the Deaf Catholic Youth Initiative for the Americas.
The first international conference on sexual abuse of young deaf Catholics will take place May 7 and May 21 during webinars organized by the Deaf Catholic Youth Initiative for the Americas.
Father Joe Mulcrone, director of the Archdiocese of Chicago s Office of the Deaf, and one of the founders of Deaf Catholic Youth Initiative for the Americas, said this is the first time an event like this is happening.
Conference will examine sexual abuse of young deaf Catholics
May 4, 2021 catholic news service
Father Joe Mulcrone celebrates Mass at the St. Francis Borgia Deaf Center in Chicago Aug. 16, 2020. (Credit: Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic via CNS.)
The first international conference on sexual abuse of young deaf Catholics will take place May 7 and May 21 during webinars organized by the Deaf Catholic Youth Initiative for the Americas.
CHICAGO The first international conference on sexual abuse of young deaf Catholics will take place May 7 and May 21 during webinars organized by the Deaf Catholic Youth Initiative for the Americas.
Father Joe Mulcrone, director of the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office of the Deaf, and one of the founders of Deaf Catholic Youth Initiative for the Americas, said this is the first time an event like this is happening.
New saint a ‘great blessing’ for persons with disabilities, say local advocates
A statue of St. Margaret of Castello at St. Patrick Church in Columbus, Ohio. (Nheyob via Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0).
By Gina Christian • Posted May 4, 2021
Local disability advocates are hailing the recent canonization of a 14th-century lay Dominican as a “great blessing.”
On April 24, Pope Francis declared Margaret of Castello a saint through a process called “equipollent (equivalent) canonization,” which recognizes longstanding devotion to the individual, enduring virtues and a legacy of miraculous intercession. St. Hildegard of Bingen and St. Francois de Laval are among those who have been elevated through the procedure.
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