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The Vatican released the logo and motto for Pope Francis’ September trip to Kazakhstan Tuesday. The motto of the September 13-15 visit, “Messengers of Peace and Unity,” is written in Kazakh across the top of the logo and Russian across the bottom. Russian and Kazakh are the two official languages of the Central Asian country. Pope Francis will travel to the city of Nur-Sultan for the VII Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions. The sky blue and yellow logo includes two hands forming the image of a dove with an olive branch. The blue and yellow of the logo are the colors of the Kazakhstan flag. A heart on the dove's wing “represents love, fruit of reciprocal understanding, cooperation, and dialogue.” The olive branch has been drawn in the shape of a typical Kazakh Ornament, a type of ancient folk art.
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The Committee for Life, the Laity, and the Family of the Argentine Bishops’ Conference expressed its opposition to four bills introduced in Congress to legalize euthanasia. The committee said the country is facing “a new manifestation of the culture of death and the throwaway culture.” In an August 18 statement, the committee said that “the Gospel commits us not to be indifferent in the face of discussions on the beginning and end of life.” There are currently four bills to legalize euthanasia: two introduced last year and two this year. In its statement, the Church in Argentina warned that “we are facing a new manifestation of the culture of death and the throwaway culture” and at the same time, “we are a people that wants such important needs as health, work, housing, and land” to be taken care of.” In its statement, the Committee for Life, the Laity, and the Family pointed out that “even in cases of diseases that have no cure, all patients must be cared for and accompanied so that their lives are respected until natural death. We are not the masters of life and therefore we place ourselves at its service.”
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Today, the Church celebrates Saint Rose of Lima. Born in Lima, Peru in 1586, at a very young age she chose to consecrate her life to God. She practiced very intense prayer and penance daily, sometimes depriving herself of food and sleep. She joined the Third Order of Saint Dominic and lived in a little hut in her parents' garden, working to help support them. She was canonized by Pope Clement X in 1671, and was the first saint of the Americas.
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