The ICMA Mediterranean, Black Sea and Middle East Region is to present its regional conference in Odessa from 8th to 11th of April 2013. The Regional Conference was announced this week by the region’s coordinator, Deacon Ricardo Rodriguez-Martos, from Stella Maris Barcelona. The conference is made possible by a generous grant received from the ITF [...]
Pope Benedict XVI blessed the Catholic ministry to seafarers at the largest ever World Congress of the Apostleship of the Sea, held last month in the Vatican City. In the first audience with a pope since the dedication of the AoS 90 years ago, the more than 400 delegates and guests of the 23rd Congress [...]
The International Christian Maritime Association relies heavily on its regional coordinators to connect with its frontline providers of care to seafarers. Boet van Schalkwyk has excelled in leading the Southern Africa and Indian Ocean Region of ICMA. His brother, Steve van Schalkwyk, has now been elected to succeed Boet as ICMA’s regional coordinator in the [...]
The 23rd World Congress of the Apostleship of the Sea is set to take place in Rome. God willing, this World Congress, the largest in recent times, will take place in the Catholic Church’s Synod Hall, Vatican City, from 19th to 23rd November 2012. The Congress is themed “New Evangelisation in the maritime world”. [...]
The Chairman of International Christian Maritime Association, Mr. Douglas B. Stevenson, has encouraged members to attend ICMA’s senior representatives consultation to be held in Rome from 13th to 16th September 2012. In a letter to members Stevenson wrote: Greetings from New York. I am writing to all of the ICMA member societies encouraging them [...]
The Apostleship of the Sea USA has announced its new administrative Board. Father Sinclair K. Oubre has been elected President of the Board. Father Sinclair is a priest of the Diocese of Beaumont. He currently serves as Pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church in Port Arthur. He is the Diocesan Director of the Apostleship [...]
Ms Apinya Tajit, renowned port welfare provider from Thailand and part of the Stella Maris network of ICMA member the Apostleship of the Sea, addressed the Seafarers Welfare Seminar held in Thailand on the 2nd of March. Ms Tajit, lovingly known by seafarers and ICMA members alike as “Jam”, addressed the seminar on occurrences of [...]
The tenth ICMA World Conference has concluded with a deeply moving ecumenical service On Tuesday morning, delegates gathered to give thanks for a successful conference. The service was celebrated in the light-filled, baroque elegance of St Michael’s Church, close to the Krayencamp Seafarers’ Centre. Appropriately, the theme was “Unity in Diversity”. Acting bishop of Hamburg, [...]
ICMA General Secretary Rev Hennie la Grange received the only standing ovation of the ICMA World Conference when he delivered a speech entitled ‘Maritime theology and the reality of ICMA’. The third day of the ICMA World Conference was devoted to the theme of “Understanding one another”. Delegates heard presentations on the subjects of ecumenism [...]
Delegates at the tenth ICMA World Conference are fully engaged in conference proceedings The theme of the first day of the World Conference was “Understanding the workplace”. The Maritime Labour Convention 2006 was the subject of the morning’s presentations and of subsequent lively discussions. In the afternoon, presentations covered various aspects of the economic situation [...]
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