World Cup Soccer: The World Comes Together

JUNE 2010 

 

Have I a Dream?

As Americans gather around baseball, apple pie and summer musings of the next football season, the rest of the world gathers around the world series of soccer. The long-awaited beginning of the 2010 FIFA World Cup today has been met with enthusiasm and joy by many South Africans. Raymond Perrier describes the celebrations that have already taken place to welcome the tournament and asks: where do we find God in this celebration of 2010? More...

 

Soccer uncovering Problems of Africa

The celebrations in South Africa as the 2010 World Cup gets underway will be broadcast around the globe, but how much will we hear and read about the troubles that beset the country, some of which will be heightened by its hosting of the tournament? Graham Pugin SJ hopes that the Church can bear visible witness to the problems of trafficking, poverty and unemployment that the football may disguise. More...

 

The Pope's Message for Mission Sunday

Here is an early glimpse of the Pope's message to the global Catholic world for World Mission Sunday, October 2010. He says: "In a multi-ethnic society that experiences increasing forms of solitude and alarming indifference, Christians should learn to offer signs of hope and become universal brothers, cultivating the great ideals that transform history and, without false illusions or unnecessary fears, work to make the planet a home for all peoples."  More...

 

A Filipino Xaverian Missionary offers his Life by taking Final Vows

Patrick Santianez of the Philippines, recently took his final vows, and on June 12, his ordination to the Diaconate in Sierra Leone, West Africa. In every corner of the world people like Patrick are giving their lives to God, and sharing it with the world. Take a look at more pics...

 

World Culture: Staff Benda Bilili

Staff Benda Bilili, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, are street musicians from Kinshasa, many of them disabled by polio. They describe themselves as the 'true journalists of Kinshasa' in the using their songs to document how the city's street kids, orphans, prostitutes and war refugees are 'the true heroes of this country'. Check out this video.