– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro As early as the 1990s, the Bhutan government had expelled the Nepalese-born Lhotshampa population, which constituted one-fifth of the country’s total population. In the process, they were denied Bhutanese citizenship, making them stateless. Some Lhotshampas…
– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso Burkina Faso bishop: As violence continues, ‘nobody is listening’ (CNA) Following the death of more than a dozen Christians in a church shooting over the weekend, a Burkina Faso bishop said Western…
– Marco Carvalho in Nagasaki He joined the Society of Jesus with the same dream as Pope Francis, to be a missionary in Japan. Over the past 62 years, Spaniard Luis Fontes has assumed the mission of bringing the Word…
PHOTO: Ivan Leong – Carlos M Frota Some days ago, Pope Francis was received in Bangkok by the Thai King, Rama X, and afterwards in Tokyo by Naruhito, the new Japanese emperor. In the two countries, hundreds, sometimes thousands of…
– Fr Leonard E. Dollentas In 1953 Archbishop Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, became a cardinal and was made the Patriarch of Venice. He was elected pope on October 28, 1958, at the age of 76 and chose the name, John XXIII.…
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro In his account, Estêvão Cacela claims to have devoted himself body and soul to learning the language of the region and probably Sanskrit, since he mentions having studied “the books of the lamas.” Although, just…
– José Maria C.S. André St Francis of Assisi went to Greccio for the first time around 1209, in a moment in which the small town was attacked by ferocious wolves that slaughtered herds, destroyed vineyards and even attacked people.…
– Tej Francis tejfrancis@gmail.com (Zenit) Pope Francis on the afternoon of November 29, 2019, visited the Cittadella della Carità, the “Citadel of Charity”, a collection of charitable programs including the Dental Centre, the “Santa Giacinta” Home, the “Emporium of Solidarity”,…
– Tej Francis tejfrancis@gmail.com Grand Rapids, Michigan Michigan diocese supports priest accused of LGBT Eucharist ‘discrimination’ (CNA) A Michigan diocese said it supports a priest who told a parishioner that because of her same-sex civil marriage she should not receive…
Photo by: Marco Carvalho – Marco Carvalho, in Tokyo A former student of Jorge Bergoglio during the years when the Pope was at the helm of San Miguel’s College, in Buenos Aires, Juan Carlos Haidar recalls Francis as a paternal…
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