(CNA) A conflict between the Ethiopian government and the government of Ethiopia’s Tigray region must halt immediately, or it will destroy more lives and turn the country into a “failure,” Ethiopia’s Catholic bishops have said.
Year: 2020
Encounter with Spain in the Forbidden City
/ November 21, 2020Maria Kwak In the year 1611, the funeral of Matteo Ricci took place at Zhalan on All Saint’s Day. Ricci was the first European to enter the Forbidden City in 1601 upon the invitation of Emperor Wanli (r. 1572-1620). Just like a picturesque three-fold panel, the Jesuits witnessed the dedication and opening of the Zhalan compound being commemorated on the…
AVAILABILITY TO HELP DECLINED WITH THE PANDEMIC, PAUL PUN SAYS – “Right now, the biggest challenge is to maintain the services we provide”
/ November 21, 2020Marco Carvalho Since the first patient with Covid-19 was detected in Macau in the dying days of January, Caritas spent more than 200,000 patacas lending a helping hand to support more than six hundred non-resident workers who had lost their jobs and had been immersed in a situation of great economic fragility ever since. The charity led by Paul Pun…
CDSJ 2 Students make their own Rosary beads
/ November 21, 2020Having school children make their own Rosary beads can be fun. This was the wonderful experience of the students at CDSJ 2, the English section of Colégio Diocesano de São José.
SELECTED STUDENTS GRANTED SCHOLARSHIPS OFFERED BY SINO-PERUVIAN BUSINESSMAN – USJ signs direct progression agreements with three Catholic schools
/ November 21, 2020Marco Carvalho The University of Saint Joseph (USJ), Saint Paul School and two of the units of St Joseph Diocesan College have recently signed direct progression agreements. The new mechanism provides some of the three secondary school graduates with the possibility to pursue their academic career at USJ. The selected students will be granted scholarships awarded by Lucas Lo, a…
POPE AT MASS ON WORLD DAY OF POOR – ‘The poor guarantee us eternal income’
/ November 21, 2020(Vatican News) The World Day of the Poor was instituted in 2016 by Pope Francis and is celebrated annually on the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time.
PASTORAL CARE FOR FILIPINO MIGRANTS’ COMMISSION ON SOCIAL ACTION – Center continues assisting displaced workers
/ November 21, 2020Danilo Perez Ngo The outreach program of the Commission on Social Action of the Pastoral Center for Filipino Migrants located at Francisco Antonio St. No. 48-58, Macau continues to distribute supplies of grocery items to migrant workers who have permanently lost their jobs and to some who are only working a few days in a month as a consequence of…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (104) – Is hell a scare tactic?
/ November 14, 2020Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org Is hell for real? Should we still believe in it? Yes. As long as a man is free, hell is a possibility. But if we are to understand what hell is, we need to understand what freedom is and what mortal sin is.
FORMED BY RELIGIOUS ROOTS AND TRAGEDY – “Catholic social doctrine taught me that faith without works is dead”
/ November 14, 2020Robaird O’CearbhaillHong Kong Correspondent Joe Biden recovered from terrible family tragedies twice. Only days into being elected into the US Senate, his wife and daughter were killed and sons seriously injured. While in Washington setting up his office his family was involved in a car accident. Soon after he wanted to abandon politics but decided to do it the hard…
MONEY AND RELIGION
/ November 14, 2020Aurelio Porfiri In recent months, I published a book that I co-wrote with Professor Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, a banker and economist and former president of the IOR (Istituto per le Opere di Religione), what is commonly known as the “Vatican Bank.” The book, La cruna dell’ago (hopefully will soon be available in other languages) shows the relationship between ethics, economy…