New challenges in Ukrain
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There have been huge changes, people started to be volunteer in social or medical activities. It is positive but at the same time it is a challenge for the movement. People felt that prayers and meditation are not enough, they need to do something more. The movement must find another direction. Members felt the necessity to commit themselves in fields linked to their professional expertise, for example in specialized NGOs. But there is no time enough to do everything.
Challenges of young people nowadays in Ukrain
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It is a difficult situation with the war in the East of Ukrain. It is very challenging for young people to continue the fight for freedom. It hurts a lot when you see that things don’t happen as you dreamed to. It is not easy to change. We understood that we had to change ourselves, to take responsibilities. Now it is very important to be heard by others and share experiences. Please read the full article.
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UN Advocacy team report
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Building on its previous years of hard work, the Pax Romana United Nations Advocacy Team is now more involved in UN processes than ever before. By engaging in advocacy through entities such as the UN Major Group for Children and Youth (UN MGCY) and the International Coordination Meeting of Youth Organizations (ICMYO) , for which the Team acts as formal Liaison to the UN, the Advocacy Team has fostered relationships within a wide range of UN processes ,
Rereading an event, a Christian path of initiation
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The social and historic shifts impacting our societies test something essential for the future of our humanity: transmission. Due to the extreme diversification of individual profiles and their great mobility, the usual means of transmission are helpless and the institutions that have traditionally ensured that transmission have become extremely fragile. According to Michel Foucault’s famous saying, we can say that we are going through “the shift from a society of prescription to a society of inscription.”
In the past, transmission was carried out as a form of prescription, i.e. “instructions” to be followed. Institutions as family, school, communities would prescribe individuals their rights and duties, that is to say the rules of living together. They would also give them the codes and practices, the meanings and rites concerning their growth in humanity that would help them forge a strong identity. This is no longer the case.
Spiritual experience in the PA2016
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"From indifference to mercy". During the assembly there will be times for debates, to open up ourselves to the richness and diversity of our international movement. But they will take their full meaning through times of silence, to contemplate what is happening, enter in ourselves and experience how God reveals his presence during these days. The space and time that we dedicate to this listening is fundamental. This time will take the following forms:
CoE: FlashNews - No hate speech movement
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Please, find hereafter a number of information and actions undertaken by the No Hate Speech Movement - Youth Department of the Council of Europe - European Youth Centre
Spiritual Animation Process in Dialogue
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As companions of Jesus sent into today´s world, a world characterized by religious pluralism, we have a special responsibility to promote interreligious dialogue. Thus keeping in mind the richness of the other faith traditions and in order to make it more practical for the young scholastics in the formation, a four day interfaith seminar was organized by Islamic Studies Association. It was held at Hyderabad in coordination with the Henry Martin Institute, International Center for Research, interfaith Relations and Reconciliation. Beside our daily Eucharist, every day the program began with interfaith prayer service conducted by our brothers and sisters of other faith. It was indeed an enriching experience to come together and pray to one God in Vedic, Islamic and Sikh faith traditions. Our spirits elevated and hearts were raised to praise God as we sat together under one roof.
Council of Europe 2012 - 2016
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1. The Conference of INGOs.
Since January 2015, the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe has elected a new President: Anna RURKA. This is a major and positive change in the management of the Conference. Anna’s programme is as follows:
1.1. Objectives and guidelines:
• “…. A Conference with the courage to express opposing arguments as a token of its strength and perceptive of complexity where others see mere complication.
• A Conference aiming at political, economic and strategic efficiency based on ethical principles.
• A conference armed with proposals, heeded, understood, intelligent in its diversity and respectful towards what all the policies in the world have in common: the human being”.
India: from indifference to mercy
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Pope Paul VI visited Mumbai, India, in 1964, for the Eucharistic Congress, as he walked down a park, with Fr Eustace D'Lima and others,they kept talking to the Pope. He suddenly stopped and said, "How indifferent can you all be?" And he added, "Are you not struck by the overwhelming poverty of the people?" Massive poverty of India and other Third World countries was well known to them so much that they passed by the poor without even noticing the poor.
Indifference, Nepal, Kenya, Indonesia, Sri Lanka
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Compilation of testimonies on indifference.
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Indifference: Dennis in Kenya
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Indifference is what has not been achieved by Pax Romana. We encourage our members to proactively participate in socio economic discussions. We also want to change mindsets, that is why we have a High school student program. Management of resources has always been the problem of Africa. Professionals have a role to play, identifying their own areas of indifferences and moving forward. PR members must redefine themselves as stakeholders in their own affairs, indentifying their own indifference regarding internal resources.
Indifference: Djamester in Indonesia
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Indifference means inequality of income between and inside countries. It leads to proverty. The poor people have no way to improve their income. They are lacking food, working places, clean water decent housing. The latest report form IMF shows that higher inequalities lead to lower growth. Indifference from powerful people means business as usual.
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Indifference: Prakash in Nepal
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Indifference often comes discrimination based on social economic, cultural backgrounds. Society treats you indifferently, according to your class, dividing people between powerful and powerless.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin bemoans lack of Catholic intellectuals in Ireland
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The Catholic Church in Ireland is “very lacking” in people of intellect who, educated in their faith, can address the pressing issues of the day, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has said.
He was “haunted” by a quote from Pope Benedict at the beatification of Cardinal Newman in 2010. “He said: ‘The service to which Blessed John Henry was called involved applying his keen intellect and his prolific pen to many of the most pressing ‘subjects of the day’,” the Archbishop recalled.
“If the place of the Church in the current social and political discussion in Ireland risks becoming increasingly marginal, this is not just due to some sort of external exclusion; it is also because the Church in Ireland is very lacking in ‘keen intellects and prolific pens addressing the pressing subjects of the day’,” said the Archbishop.
Indifference: Ruki (Sri Lanka)
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When we see sufferings and ignore it, that is indifference. We see but don’t want to be concerned. It is more comfortable, because there is no need to share, but it is unchristian. Being christian means to be disturbed by what is going on around you. Indifference can be individual and also collective. Movement activities must always be grounded on what is happening to those who suffer. (Click on the image for the video)
A minute for peace
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Once again we want to propose to all men and all women of good will “A MINUTE FOR PEACE” to unite our efforts and our prayer for peace, unfortunately broken or threatened in several regions of the world.
It will be held on June 8, 2016 at 1.00 PM (13h) on the occasion of the second anniversary of the historical meeting between Pope Francis and the presidents of Israel and Palestine, held in the Vatican.
Our proposal is that that day t 1.00 PM (13h), each of us can stop for a moment, for a minute, praying according to one’s own tradition.
We can do it alone or in groups, in our home or at work or studying, or by a celebration in a place of prayer.
We want to offer everyone the opportunity, this sign, to encourage continuous prayer and commitment for peace and mercy, with a special intention for refugees who suffer every day the consequences of violence.
Persecution of students in Java-Bali city Indonesia
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Central Executive Board of the Student Association of the Central Mountain Papua Indonesia strongly condemned the actions of the Police and Defence Forces who have breached the State's Constitution and democratic values of the country which known globally as a country upholds its democratic values.
Survey "themes and communication"
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We are on the way to the next plenary assembly, scheduled from October 28th to November 1st 2016 in Barcelona, on the theme: "From the indifference to mercy, which commitment?"
We start reflecting from now and we wish to do it interactively, through surveys and online interviews.
To begin, we would like to know better what is your movement working on.
Restoring humanity through acts of Mercy
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Here are reflections shared on my Facebook page "Face of Mercy"
I want to share with you about “Restoring Humanity”. These two powerful words I came across in the recent document of UN’s First World Humanitarian Summit, which took place in Istanbul, Turkey on 23rd May and 24th May 2016. Why we are called to restore humanity? , we restore something only when we have broken something or when we have taken it away from the place it truly belongs to. I feel we have broken the promise we made, the promise that we would love and care for our fellow human beings, that we would protect our planet. We all have forgotten the promise we had made as humans when this world was created. If human beings are so evolved than so many other species in the planet, then we must be responsible for all that we do.
The Churas of Pakistan: Alienated in Their Own Homeland
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Every early morning you find her there.
Day in, day out – Kiran Masih broom in hand is sweeping across Ayub Market, in F- 8 Markaz Islamabad.
The dust settles on her tired face with wrinkles and those sturdy callused hands, all while she shrugs off and brings back the dupatta to cover her hair.
