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FAITH Friday, August 26, 2016 East Oregonian Page 7A Catholic youths make pilgrimage to Poland Community By TAMMY MALGESINI East Oregonian A group of 18 youths and leaders from the Baker Diocese — including eight from St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Pendleton and six from St. Andrews Mission — recently returned from a 10-day pilgrimage to Kraków, Poland. Referred to as pilgrims, the participants walked a total of 70 miles, slept an average of three-four hours per night and attended six mass celebrations during the World Youth Day event, said Jacquie Hitzman, youth minister and group leader for WYD 2016. Typically organized every three years by the Catholic church, more than 2.5 million youths from across the globe were in attendance. Highlights included sessions with Pope Francis, a Stations of the Cross re-enactment and visiting places that are signiicant to the Catholic church as well as historical sites. Participants brought prayer intentions from their hometown parishes and they left them at the altar in the Chapel of the miraculous image of the Merciful Jesus and the tomb of St. Faustina. In a garden area outside the chapel, there was a large image of the Merciful Jesus. It was created with selies St. Johns Episcopal Church Join Us On Our Journey With Jesus. Scripture, Tradition and Reason Family service 9am Sunday N.E. Gladys Ave & 7th, Hermiston Fr. Dan Lediard, Priest. PH: 567-6672 We are an all inclusive Church who welcomes all. P eace L utheran C hurch 210 NW 9th, Pendleton ELCA Photo contributed by Jacquie Hitzman that youths from around the world sent in prior to World Youth Day event. “They were turned into this beautiful work of art,” Hitzman said. Prior to the inal mass, the group trekked 10 miles to Campus Misericordiae (Field of Mercy) for an evening vigil with Pope Francis. After camping out with more than 2 million youths, the pilgrims gained words of encouragement the following morning from the pope. In addition, he announced the next World Youth Day would take place in 2019 in Panama. Father Kumar Udagandla of St. Mary’s, also on the pilgrimage, celebrated a mass in Portland before departing for Poland. In addition, he made arrangements to use a chapel in Poland’s Rzeszow airport for a mass and to bless religious souvenirs before lying home. World Youth Day was established in 1985 by Pope John Paul II. Its purpose is to encourage and support the church’s younger generation. For more information, visit www.worldyouthday.com. ——— Contact Community Editor Tammy Malgesini at tmalgesini@eastoregonian. com or 541-564-4539 ~Come and be at Peace ~ on 1290 KUMA noon each Sunday pendletonfaithcenter.org NEW HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH Seventh-Day Adventist Church 9:30 Sunday Worship 9:30 am am Sunday Worship 10:30 am Fellowship Refreshments 10:30 am 11:00 am Sunday School & Adult Class 1350 S. Highway 395, Hermiston Sunday Worship Services English- Pastor Dave Andrus 9:00 & 10:45 am Spanish- Pastor Genaro Loredo 9:00 & 10:15 am Classes for kids during all services For more information call 541-567-8441 Community Presbyterian Church BOARDMAN’S LIMEY PASTOR 14 Martin Drive, Umatilla, OR 922-3250 When the light grows dim and the truth is hidden Worship: 10 AM Sunday School at 11:30 I ran into an evangelist friend The majority religion of I know this last week. He the Russian people is the was walking with his wife, Russian Orthodox tradition. coming out of a Pentecostal A somber, beautiful faith, it church meeting. He is a global seems clear that Vladimir Putin traveler. He has traveled is taking upon himself the role through Africa on many of defender of the Orthodox occasions, and he has just come churches. But in doing so he back from an evangelizing visit is taking a sharp turn away Colin to Russia. He shared with me from the rich freedoms of the Brown that he thought this would be West, which offer so much Faith his last trip there due to the experimental and thoughtful closing of freedom there. variation — that offered a The Russian government is coming dynamic expansion of faith and joy to down and arresting members of what the people. I remember the hope we are considered to be dangerous outsider all felt in Europe when the Berlin Wall religions, such as the sect of Jehovah’s fell, pulled apart by the German people Witnesses, imprisoning its members — pieces of it being sold and given and seizing their property. Religions away all over the world. Everyone such as the Witnesses are seen as helped pull down that wall. Thanks antithetical to the core faith of Russia, President Reagan! against its historical groundings. Of I visited the former Soviet Union course, militant Islam biting at the before it fell, in October 1980, when I southern lanks of Russia is a spur to was 24, visiting Moscow, where I had these crackdowns, no doubt. a slight run-in with the KGB due to Other institutions that are suffering some reading material I had. I visited organizational persecution are Leningrad and Communist Party Seventh-day Adventists, Mormons, headquarters there, where a boyish Baptists, Pentecostals and others. Putin was at the time. The party’s All of these seen as evangelizing, committee and my troupe of British as moving in on Orthodox turf and travelers had a fairly wide-ranging causing the loss of the inherent discussion about the changes of national depth of ancient Russian openness that were coming to them. Christianity. We said to them that if they gave people freedom they would not wish to leave, they would stay and thrive. Leningrad, now returned to its former name of St. Petersburg, is possibly one of the prettiest cities in Europe. It was certain that freedoms would not cause a rush to leave, but would open up the doors to modernity and also a lowering of traditional life — which is what happened. In my visit, I also visited Soviet Armenia, where there is a fabulous ancient monastic tradition, and the oil-rich state of Azerbaijan on the border of Iran. I also visited Tblisi, the capital of Soviet Georgia, which was, for some reason, a knock-off of California with champagne parties going on under the stars. Russia was about to bloom! So I am very sad that the curtain of darkness is descending again in the former Soviet empire. Although it sometimes has an effect of awakening a longing for freedom that has been submerged (sometimes this can happen), I pray that Americans will raise up Russia in their prayers and honor our own churches by attending them. It can go dark very quickly sometimes. ■ Pastor Colin Brown of Boardman’s Good Shepherd Lutheran Church on Locust Road. 2 nuns killed in Mississippi; signs point to home break-in DURANT, Miss. (AP) — Two nuns who worked as nurses and helped the poor in rural Mississippi were found slain in their home, perhaps victims of a break-in and vehicle theft, oficials said Thursday. Authorities would not say if they have a suspect or what kind of vehicle was missing from the home. They also did not release a cause of death, but the Rev. Greg Plata said police told him the sisters were stabbed. The nuns were identiied as Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill, both 68. Their bodies were taken to a state crime lab for autopsies. The women, both nurse practitioners, were found Thursday morning when they didn’t report to work at a nearby clinic, where they provided lu shots, insulin and other medical care for children and adults who couldn’t afford it. “They were two of the sweetest, most gentle women you can imagine. Their vocation was helping the poor,” said Plata, who oversees a 35-member Catholic church the sisters attended. Maureen Smith, a spokeswoman for the Catholic Diocese of Jackson, said there were signs of a break-in at the home and the nuns’ vehicle is missing. Authorities didn’t release a motive and it wasn’t clear if the nuns’ religious work had anything to do with the slayings. “I have an awful feeling in the pit of my stomach,” said Durant Assistant Police Chief James Lee, who is Catholic. Police Chief John Haynes said oficers are canvassing the area and checking video from surveillance cameras in town to see if they spot anything unusual. Merrill had worked in Mississippi for more than 30 years, according to the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Kentucky. She was from Massachusetts and joined the order in 1979. Nonbelievers sue over Pennsylvania House’s opening prayers HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A group of people who don’t believe in God iled a federal lawsuit on Thursday seeking to change how prayers are handled before sessions of the state House of Representatives. The lawsuit in Harrisburg federal court said House oficials have denied their requests to make an opening invocation, arguing nonbelievers are treated like a disfavored minority who can be discriminated against. “Like theists, the plaintiffs are capable of giving inspiring and moving invocations, similar to nontheistic invocations that have been given in other communities across the United States,” the lawsuit said. “There is just one signiicant difference between people whom the defendants allow to give opening invocations and the plaintiffs: the former believe in God, while the plaintiffs do not.” Five people and three organizations — the Pennsylvania Nonbelievers Inc., the Dillsburg Area Freethinkers and the Lancaster Freethought Society — sued House Speaker Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, House Parliamentarian Clancy Myer and ive lawmakers who represent districts where the plaintiffs live or meet. A spokesman for the Republicans who have majority control of the House said they believe their policy is constitutional and comports with U.S. Supreme Court rulings about prayer during government meetings. None of the ive lawmaker defendants returned phone messages Thursday. The plaintiffs also said two of them were pressured by the speaker and security oficers to stand during an opening prayer. The policy of making people stand, they said, violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution’s First Amendment by coercing people to participate in prayer. French lawyers seek overturn on burkini bans; verdict Friday PARIS (AP) — Human rights groups challenged the legality of municipal bans on full-body burkini swimsuits before France’s highest administrative court Thursday, a practice that one lawyer iercely denounced as relecting “a relex of fear.” The three-judge Council of State heard arguments from both sides and said it would issue its ruling Friday over whether to overturn the locally ordered bans. They have elicited shock and anger worldwide after photos this week appeared to show police instructing one Muslim sunbather to remove her body-concealing tunic in Nice, scene of last month’s truck slaughter. The legal ight over the right of Muslim women to wear burkinis has ired a national debate over the place of Islam in France, a strictly secular country, and fueled concerns at home and abroad that some French mayors are overstepping their powers. 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