(Vatican News) Myanmar’s military on Monday fired artillery shells at a Catholic Church in eastern Myanmar, killing four civilians sheltering there. Sacred Heart Church in Kayanthayar Parish near Loikaw, the capital city of Kayah state, a Catholic area was the…
In celebration of 2021 World Day of Social Communications, the Associação Diocesana das Artes Performativas e Culturais de Macau (ADAPEC), the Centro Diocesano dos Meios de Comunicação Social (CDMCS) and the Centro de Cultura e Artes Performativas Cardeal Newman de…
(National Catholic Register) Thirty-three years after Venerable Henriette DeLille’s cause was opened, an alleged miracle is now in the hands of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints at the Vatican, putting this holy heroine of New Orleans close to…
Fr Leonard E Dollentas When Jesuit Fr Stephen Chow Sau-yan received his appointment as the new bishop of Hong Kong, he was shocked, and initially, he refused. Like Fr Chow, most bishops appointed are caught by surprise when chosen because…
Marco Carvalho China has decided on Monday to increase the limit of children per couple from two to three, an announcement that aims to halt the demographic free fall the world’s most populous nation has been experiencing. The measure rectifies…
Ross Belle Santos-Balatbat When I was seven, my mother taught me how to pray the rosary and I was motivated as I witnessed her and my aunt praying at least seven sets in a day. As a young child, I…
Ross Belle Santos Balatbat The Pahiyas festival is a tradition that originated in Lucban, Quezon in the Philippines to thank God for the bountiful harvest and honor the patron saint of farmers, Saint Isidore the Farmer and Saint Maria Toribia,…
Fr Leonard Dollentas Flores de Mayo (“Flowers of May”) is a traditional celebration for Filipinos in the month of May. A Filipino in Macau who hails from Cebu recalls: “Decades ago, when I was still a boy, I remember that…