During Pope Francis' apostolic visit to Jakarta, Indonesia, from September 3 to 6, 2024, the Indonesia Bible Society (Lembaga Alkitab Indonesia [LAI], an Ecumenical Bible organization) and the Indonesian Bible Association ( Lembaga Biblika Indonesia [LBI], full member of Catholic Biblical Federation), represented by Rev. Dr. Henreitte T.H. Lebang (Chairperson of LAI) and Rev. Dr. Sigit Triyono (General Secretary of LAI), both Protestants, had the opportunity to meet with Pope Francis before he left Indonesia on September 6, 2024.
A note issued by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments provides instructions for the celebration of The Sunday of the Word of God.
On 24 May 2015 Pope Francis signed “Laudato si", the encyclical letter that called the world’s attention to the increasingly precarious state of “our common home”. Finding the encyclical even more relevant five years on, the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development has announced a Special “Laudato si" Anniversary Year from 24th May 2020 – 24th May 2021 with the hope that the anniversary year and the ensuing decade will indeed be a time of grace, a true Kairos experience and “Jubilee” time for the Earth, and for humanity, and for all God’s creatures.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Manila, Luis Antonio Tagle is the new Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The appointment of Pope Francis was announced today, Sunday 8 December.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Manila, Luis Antonio Tagle is the new Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The appointment of Pope Francis was announced today, Sunday 8 December.
Pope Francis, in his just published Apostolic Letter “Miericordia et Misera” to mark the end of the Year of Merccy has called for one Sunday each year in all Christian Communities around the World to be celebrated as “Bible Sunday” during which the “the Sunday be given over entirely to the word of God so as to appreciate the inexhaustible riches contained in that constant dialogue between the Lord and his people”. “Initiatives of this sort would certainly include the practice of Lectio Divina...”
