Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared at Tepeyac in Mexico City to a 57-year-old Indian peasant Juan Diego on Dec 9, 1531. She identified herself as the pregnant Mother of God and instructed him to have the bishop build a church…
Day: September 7, 2019
WITNESSING EAST TIMOR’S MIRACLE ESCAPE – Highest genocide of the 20th century
– Robaird O’Cearbhaill Hong Kong Correspondent It took long weeks to get a seat on a flight to East Timor. All flights were full of UN, NGO staff, and volunteers flying in for a ballot on independence or autonomy from…
FATHER MIGUEL DIED IN 2001, BUT HIS FAME OF SANCTITY REMAINS ALIVE – In the border of sainthood, blessed by popular acclaim
– Marco Carvalho “Miracle worker”, “guardian angel”, “messenger of God”. The name of José Miguel Garcia Pereira – known all over Portugal simply as “Father Miguel” – still takes thousands of pilgrims to Soito, a small village in the municipality…
FORMER MAYOR OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF THE ISLANDS DIED ON SUNDAY – Gastão de Barros, founder of O Clarim, dead at 89
– Marco Carvalho Founder of O Clarim and a former administrator of Taipa Island during the later years of the Portuguese dictatorship, Gastão Humberto de Barros passed away on Sunday at the age of 89 due to complications associated with…