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Hundreds of schoolchildren in the southern Philippines have fallen sick after eating durian-flavoured sweets, the provincial governor said Saturday.
During 2015, CREC will discover new horizons. This was the conclusion of the members of the general assembly, during their meeting on March 14, in Valpré (Ecully, Lyon) when they considered the programme of the coming training activities. Sessions will be conducted in Papua-New Guinea, in Tahiti, in Ukraine, in Tanzania, in the Philippines, even […]
How do you teach the Teachers?It’s not a question you get to ask very often.But then you don’t often get the chance to teach bishops, do you?It’s a serious question.Because a bishop, by definition, is someone who “governs”, “sanctifies” – and “teaches”, with all the power and authority of the Church behind him.And you don’t […]
Every year, members of the CREC trainers team are meeting in Rome to develop new programs and methodologies. This year, from June 26 to 29, they made an inventory of exercises used during the sessions. The inventory will be continued online in order to publish around September a new version of the CREC educational tools […]
Communicating is all about connecting. And good communication involves having good connections. Here’s an example from our most recent experience in Arua, Uganda. The Director of Radio Pacis (Fr Tonino Pasolini mccj), who is a Comboni missionary, connected with his Station Manager (Sherry Meyer), who is connected to just about everybody. She connected with our […]
Rome, February 25 : During the SIGNIS World Congress, held in Rome, a special tribute to Fr. Pierre Babin, omi, was organized by the members of CREC. Many former students and friends of P. Babin attended the ceremony. They remembered the influence of Pierre not only on their media activities but on their personnal spirituality […]
Imagine the scene…(and if you can’t, then look at the pictures accompanying this article). Imagine an emerald green subtropical garden bursting with vegetation, grass-covered open-air pavilions, the sound of running water and exotic bird cries, the smell of mangoes and adobo cooking in the kitchen… An oasis in an oasis: this is the Rogationist Center […]
I only met Nelson Mandela once.It was in Johannesburg – on September 16th 1995. I was travelling with Pope John Paul II, the same Pope who once said he would never visit South Africa until the country renounced the evil of racial segregation. It was a typically JPII three-nation tour that began in Cameroon and […]
ty·phoon: noun. A powerful tropical cyclone.(From the Greek “whirlwind”, and the Chinese “great wind”.) I can’t stop thinking about it: that “great wind”. And the more I think about it, the more the typhoon becomes the symbol for what I experienced (outwardly and inwardly) when I was in the Philippines recently. I was in Makati […]