Opus Dei

Bishop Javier Echevarría ordained seven new priests, from five countries, in a ceremony at the sanctuary of Torreciudad, on Sunday, August 31.

Josephine Darang writes about a new book in her column “Purely Personal” in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

For the past 16 years, a group of volunteers have been carrying out various programs of nutrition, hygiene and literacy in Santo Tomé, a city of 43,000 where 65% of the people are living under the poverty line.

An account from BusinessWorld of a summer leadership-outreach seminar for teenagers in a Tanza slum of Iloilo City. The seminar was sponsored by the Daguiao Foundation, a non-governmental organization established by some members of Opus Dei that promotes educational and social projects in and for the island of Panay.

“On October 7,” said John Paul II, “I count on going, please God, to the Shrine of Pompei. It will be a particularly significant moment in the Year of the Rosary, inaugurated last 16 October with the signing in St Peter's Square of my Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae.”

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.