António dos Santos Sometimes forgotten and little talked about, men and women have risked their lives for the sake of others. Today we remember one of these men, the Belgian priest Jozef De Veuster who volunteered to help the lepers on the island of Molokai (Hawaii). Despite the awareness of the danger he was in, the love he had for…
In the wake of the second wave of the pandemic in India, Mother’s Meal has started the distribution of hot food in the city of Bangalore. Since April 26, we have launched a program called “Food at your door steps” and started a kitchen in the beginning to supply food. Yesterday we commissioned the third kitchen and distributed 870 meals.…
Fr Leonard E Dollentas “I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already!” (Luke 12:49) On December 11, 1821, Father Laurent Ilbert, a French Catholic priest of the Paris Foreign Missions Society (MEP), was the first Catholic priest to set foot on Singapore’s shore to minister to the country’s growing population. This…
9 May 2021 – 6th Sunday of Easter- Year BJn. 15: 9-17 Fr. Jijo Kandamkulathy CMFClaretian Publications, Macau The letter of Saint John we read today is a commentary to the gospel, in which he explains love is of God and makes a crescendo in that sequence to tell that God is love.
Marco Carvalho If there were any doubts remaining, Alexandre Lebel dispelled them. The Canadian researcher, who earlier this week defended, at the University of Saint Joseph (USJ), his doctoral dissertation in the area of creolistics, managed to prove through a phylogenetic approach that the functionally extinct Luso-Asian Creole of Macau – the patois – is closer to kristang – and,…
Tej Francis (CNA) An MP in Finland is facing jail over a social media post that included a quotation from the Bible.
Tej Francis (CNS) A Venezuelan doctor who treated patients during the Spanish flu pandemic and was one of the first to introduce microscopes to his nation’s hospitals was beatified April 30 in an austere ceremony held in Caracas, the city where he spent much of his life tending to the sick.
Tej Francis (CNA) The Society of Priest of St. Jacques announced this Friday, April 30th, that the remaining seven of the 10 Catholic leaders kidnapped in Haiti on April 11 have been released and are in good health.
Jasmin Yiu On “Good Shepherd Sunday,” the fourth Sunday of Easter, and the 58th World Day of Prayer for Vocations, the Catholic Diocese of Macau and the Serra Club dedicated a Mass, celebrated by His Excellency Bishop Stephen Lee, to pray for more vocations in the Church. The Eucharist was held at St Joseph Seminary Church, which had nurtured numerous…
Dear Brothers and Sisters, (Vatican VA) In our Lenten journey towards Easter, let us remember the One who “humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross” (Phil 2:8). During this season of conversion, let us renew our faith, draw from the “living water” of hope, and receive with open hearts the love of God, who makes…