The Vatican cricket team is currently playing in Malta, promoting friendship through sport and giving concrete testimony to the Christian faith.
(Vatican News Network)The Vatican cricket team will play once morest local teams in Malta from July 1st to 10th, and will follow in the footsteps of St. Paul and Pope Francis, experience pilgrimages and witness in the parish community of Malta. This is an initiative in collaboration with the Archbishop of Malta, Charles Scicluna, who will receive the Vatican cricket team on the morning of July 9. As we all know, the Pope paid a pastoral visit to Malta from 2 to 3 April this year.
This is the eighth “Journey of the Light of Faith” by the Vatican Cricket Team. Like the previous seven “Journeys of the Light of Faith” in Argentina, the United Kingdom, Kenya, Portugal and Asia, this eighth event also competes with local teams in the parish of Malta. The members of the Vatican cricket team are students of various Pontifical Universities in Rome from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, England, Ireland and Australia. Leading them was Father Eamon O’Higgins.
Now, the Vatican cricket team is pushing a message of inclusion in Malta, conveying that “sports for all” is a peaceful experience. Pope Francis takes this very seriously. The cricket team won one and lost one of the two matches on July 5 and 6. There is another game on July 8. The outcome of the game doesn’t matter, what really matters is that through sport, friendships can be fostered and concrete testimony to the Christian faith can be made.
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