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Misnomer of the year

Sunday, 8 January 2017, 08:15 Last update: about 11 years ago

The ‘Year of Mercy’ was the misnomer of the year. At the start of the ‘Holy Year’, we were told by a local priest that the ‘floodgates’ of Divine Mercy would be...

Donation from Mission Fund Mosta

Sunday, 8 January 2017, 08:14 Last update: about 11 years ago

I am very grateful to the Mission Fund Mosta for sending me €2,000 to help mein providing assistance in the form of scholarships for tertiary education to young girls in this rural area of Santal...

Natural gas is lighter than air

Saturday, 7 January 2017, 08:27 Last update: about 11 years ago

Charles Flores’s lament for the Nationalist Opposition (TMIS 1 Jan. 2017) has some qualities to commend it, but balanced analysis and accurate information are not among them. Take his...

Mission Fund’s New Year’s Day message

Sunday, 1 January 2017, 09:24 Last update: about 11 years ago

It has been a jolly season here at Mission Fund so far. We look forward to the New Year with new exciting prospects and live in the hope to be able to be more successful, to reach out to more people....

The under-investigated ‘High Place’ in Gozo

Sunday, 1 January 2017, 08:37 Last update: about 11 years ago

At the Ta' Cenc and Is-Sanap heights in south Gozo, the Jesuit archaeologist Fr Emmanuel Magri drew the attention of Bavarian Dr Albert Mayr to the "High Place" in 1897-8, mentioned as having been...

Open letter to Prime Minister Dr Joseph Muscat

Sunday, 1 January 2017, 08:35 Last update: about 11 years ago

The European Union is at a crossroads. We, the National Youth Council of Malta, and the European Youth Forum, believe that the only direction to take is the one where young people are included in its...

Nonviolence: our way of living for 2017

Sunday, 1 January 2017, 08:34 Last update: about 11 years ago

It is always a joy to read Pope Francis’ documents because they grasp that Gospel vitality which we and our society sorely need. A case in point is this year’s Peace Message which is...

Vladimir Putin

Sunday, 1 January 2017, 08:33 Last update: about 11 years ago

It's absolutely amazing! The name Vladimir Putin is never far from the lips of every honest citizen across the globe. Whether it's Crimea, Ukraine, the mass murder of innocent victims in Syria or the...

Her Excellency's appeal quickly forgotten by PN

Sunday, 1 January 2017, 08:32 Last update: about 11 years ago

Dr Beppe Fenech Adami has quickly forgotten what the President had said about political “mud-slinging” in her Republic Day Investiture speech.  Just a few days later in Parliament,...

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