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ReachOut! in inner city Manchester

University Students have been working for ten years now, in one of the most disadvantaged areas of Manchester. The project consists of several educational programmes of a voluntary nature.

Social initiatives

A medical clinic in Mexico

Every Sunday at the crack of dawn, scores of indigenous Mazahuas and Otomíes gather at the old hacienda of San José de Toshi to receive medical treatment, participate in a training workshop, pick up a food ration or attend a Christian doctrine class.

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Dagatan Family Farm School

Dagatan opened in 1988 with 35 students. As of 2003, there were five more family farm schools in the Philippines, offering children of farmers the possibility of alternating studies and field work to help their families improve their economic situation.

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“We need you, Elisabeth”

Elisabeth has become a Catholic. She went for a year as an exchange student from Sweden to Cordoba, Spain, and studied at the Zalima High School, an apostolic work of Opus Dei. Now she has returned to her country to study nursing.

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Put Christ back into European life

After praying the Angelus with the faithful present at Castelgandolfo on Sunday, July 13, John Paul II spoke of the future of Europe.

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John Paul II: Unflagging defender of truth

Bishop Javier Echevarría, prelate of Opus Dei, discusses the twenty-five years of John Paul II’s pontificate, the Christian roots of Europe and the prospects for peace in Holy Land. An interview with Paolo Cavallo.

From the Prelate

A saint for our times

From many points of view the most important – or at least the most decisive – day of our lives is, paradoxically, the day we die. It is the end of our life in this world and the beginning of our eternal life.

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“Harambee 2002” funds 18 educational projects in Africa

Project Harambee announced its grant awards on June 23, including a program of social reintegration for former child-soldiers in Sierra Leone, a new library for a Ugandan school, and a farm for families taking in Rwandan orphans. Its press release follows.

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New Saint Josemaría website

A web page dedicated to St. Josemaría will be on-line on June 26. The site’s launching is timed to coincide with the first celebration of the feast day of Opus Dei’s founder.

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The Home and the School of Communion

In the World Day of Prayer for the sanctification of priests, Pope John Paul II reiterated that the great challenge of the new millennium is “to make the Church the home and the school of communion.”

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