Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Throughout the 16th century, several plans were drawn up, each one more eccentric than the other, to invade the Middle Kingdom, megalomaniac and unrealistic plans that had among their most enthusiastic defenders several Dominicans and Spanish…
(Angelus News) Attacks on churches and arrests of clergy in Myanmar are becoming increasingly common as the Catholic Church is being targeted for its alleged opposition to the ruling military junta.
Robaird O’CearbhaillHong Kong Correspondent From the 6th century AD until the 12th century, Irish monks’ missions were a dedicated and skilled educative force that evangelized the Germanic nomadic tribes that invaded Western Europe and destroyed much of the old Roman…
(Catholic News Agency) People attending Pope Francis’ weekly audience on Wednesday, and those following via livestream, were surprised to see sitting among the crowd a man dressed head-to-toe in tight red and blue garb decorated with a silver web.
In celebrating the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the European Union and the Holy See, the European Union hosted the Iter Europaeum project in Rome from 9 May to 27 June. It is a pilgrimage and a walkway where…
Fr Leonard E Dollentas After being vacant for more than a year, the Archdiocese of Manila finally has its Archbishop. On June 24, 2021, the solemnity of the Birth of St John the Baptist, Cardinal Jose Advincula of Capiz was officially…
(Global Sisters Report) Notre Dame de Namur Sr. Mary Alice McCabe welcomes an Angolan father and son to the Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas, in January 2020. (Courtesy of Mary Alice McCabe)
Marco Carvalho Dance and drawing lessons, cooking sessions, language classes and much, much more. The Diocesan Pastoral Youth Center will answer once again the needs of dozens of local families, by promoting in July and August a broad program of…
The University of Saint Joseph (USJ) held its 2021 Post-Graduate Diploma in Education Graduation Ceremony yesterday. A total of 197 students graduating this year, including 59 students from the English Programme and 138 from the Chinese Programme.
On the 24th of June, Macau City Day, the International Institute of Macau held a session open to the public, to commemorate the historic event that marked Macau on that day, in 1622, of the victory over the Dutch who…