– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro To a Portuguese, like Cacela, hearing about grapes certainly attracted his attention and although this fruit did not grow in Bhutan but in another place across the border, “in a town called Compo, which is…
Month: August 2019
NEWS BRIEFS
– Tej Francis MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA FIRST PERMIT ISSUED UNDER AUSTRALIAN STATE’S ASSISTED SUICIDE, EUTHANASIA LAW (CNA) The first permit for medically assisted death in Victoria was issued in recent weeks, less than a month after the Australian state’s legalization of…
CARDINAL FERNANDO FILONI – New seminary a “fruit of apostolic creativity and the desire to be a Church that goes forth”
Cardinal Fernando Filoni delivers the homily in the Mass he celebrated at the University of St Joseph during his visit to Macau in March of this year A new seminary directly depending on the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples…
ANTIQUES EXPERT MARINELLA VERONESI – Italy, 80% of art in the world is concentrated here, mostly religious art
– ROBAIRD O’CEARBHAILL Hong Kong Correspondent Italy shares with China top spot for UNESCO World Heritage Sites’ longest list at 55. In 2005 Macau’s historic center was chronologically the 35th site in China. Item (1), of the cultural criteria, for…
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES ROUND TABLE – The Sacred and the Everyday
The Faculty of Religious Studies of the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) was joined by the Renmin University of China’s School of Liberal Arts in hosting the Comparative Literature and Religious Studies round table of the XXII Congress of the…
MACAU CHURCH HERITAGE – The Guia Chapel
– Maria Sheli Kwak Situated at the highest point in Macau, the Capelinha de Nossa Senhora das Neves (Guia Chapel) stands inside the Fortaleza da Guia (Guia Fortress). Popularly known as Guia Chapel derived from the fortress and the lighthouse…
CHANCERY NOTICE
CN/14/017/2019 Pastoral Appointments Bishop Stephen LEE has made the following appointments, effective 1 September 2019: Rev. Jojo Peter ANCHERIL, CMF, ceases to be Parish Priest in St. Lawrence Parish and Procurator of St. Joseph Seminary; he will be given a…
“MLADIFEST 2019” – YOUTH FESTIVAL – Medjugorje embraces the world
– Miguel Augusto (*) The 30th edition of “Mladifest” started yesterday in Medjugorje. The Youth Festival had been taking place since 1989 in the small Franciscan parish village of Bosnia and Herzegovina, today a Marian Shrine. Father Danko Perutina, former…
WAHN TIHNG CENTER PROMOTES ANNUAL ACTIVITIES FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS WITH OPUS DEI SPIRITUALITY – Winners of cooking competition visit O Clarim
– Miguel Augusto Last Monday, O Clarim was visited by three young girls between the ages of ten and thirteen, winners of the 2019 Cooking Competition, part of the “Art of Living” (AOL) project, guided and organized by the Wahn…
24TH WORLD SCOUT JAMBOREE ENDS TODAY – Macau scouts live American dream in West Virginia
– Marco Carvalho Three Pioneers and one of the leaders of GELMac – Lusophone Scouts Group of Macau – are among the 45,000 scouts from around the world that took part in the 24th World Scout Jamboree. The largest scout…