Cardinal Levada: 'We Should Hold Ourselves to a Higher Standard'

Xaverian Mission Newsletter - May 2010

Xaverian Mission Newsletter May 2010

Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars New Album

The Xaverian Missionaries have worked in Sierra Leone is 1951. During the war years from 1999-2002, the country suffered much. Yet, in the midst of great violence, redemptive voices arose like this fine group that taking the world music scene by storm. Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars is a band of musicians who started playing music together in refugee camps while their homeland was being racked by years of bloody warfare. The band members are broadly diverse in age and character but they all have struggled to survive in one of the world's poorest countries, and they share an unwavering belief in the transformative power of music.


Check out their music at this LINK

Glimpses of the Holy Days of Easter Around the World

A woman crucified in the Philippines. Notice the use of real nails in her hands. This practice, done yearly, is a way volunteers atone for their sins. The Church does not condone this however.

An old woman in Mexico during Stations of the Cross

Indonesian Woman at Good Friday Services 

Christians in Pakistan at Holy Thursday Mass

Stations of the Cross on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York

Images are courtesy of msnbc.com