WORLD MISSION RECEIVES AGAIN A CATHOLIC MASS MEDIA TROPHY

JUNE 2010 ISSUE

Victims and heroines

All around the developing world, women and girls are the pillars of their families and communities. As part of their daily tasks, they cook, clean, farm, collect wood and fetch water for their households; and provide them with health and hygienic care. Because of these roles, they are particularly vulnerable. In situations of conflict, they become more and more the main targets – through sexual assault and common violence. The importance of their role is their weakness. For the contenders, to humiliate and control them is a way to demoralize the “enemy.” Sometimes, they are also made pawns in a sadistic game of ethnic cleansing. Ironically, when we look closely at war zones and violent prone areas, we’ll see that most of the peacemakers, even in the remotest and harshest places, are also women. The Catholic nuns, who risk their own lives to help the victims and alleviate their burden, are among them. The courage and resilience they show is a lesson in humanity.

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WORLD MISSION RECEIVES AGAIN A CATHOLIC MASS MEDIA TROPHY

World Mission (WM) was awarded another trophy by the prestigious Catholic Mass Media Awards (CMMA) in its 31st edition. The magazine was distinguished as the Best Local Community/Parish Newspaper for the third consecutive year.

More than 50 mass media productions, individual and institutional, were distinguished for being the best value-oriented mass media projects in the country. According to the CMMA Secretariat, it received for this year a total of 537 entries for 47 categories in the fields of Print, Radio, Television, Advertising, Cinema, Music, Student CMMA and Internet.

WM was also a finalist in the Best Special Feature category with a prose titled The Dialogue Mission, a reportage made by the editor, Fr. José Rebelo, about Silsilah Dialogue Movement, a movement founded in Mindanao 25 years ago by PIME missionary Fr. Sebastiano D'Ambra. It, however, lost to a text published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer titled Life is a Wonderful Thing, a chronicle on the late action star Rudy Fernandez and his struggle against cancer.

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""Man is made to love; his life is fully realized only if he lives in love."

Pope Benedict XVI in a message

sent to Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko,

president of the Pontifical Council

for the Laity, and to the participants

of the 10th International Youth

Forum, held in Rocca di Papa.

"We, Christians, even lately, have often avoided the word 'penance.' Now, under the eyes of the world that speaks of our sins, we see that doing penance is grace and we see how penance is necessary."

Pope Benedict XVI in an

apparent reference to the sex-abuse

crisis, in a homily during a Mass

at the Pauline Chapel of the

papal palace, attended by members

of the Vatican's Bible Commission.

"The Pope and I are united on the relationship between reason and science, the necessity of dialogue between religions and the need for worldwide ethics, even if my hopes of a reformist course have not been fulfilled."

Hans Küng, a Roman Catholic priest,

Swiss-born theologian and Vatican critic,

in an interview conducted by

The European, a Berlin-based

online news service.

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