Category: World

– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro The Jesuit Francisco de Azevedo was to arrive in the city of Tsaparang on 25 August 1632 and would remained there until 4 October, when, in the company of João de Oliveira, he took on…

– Fr Leonard Dollentas A few days after the celebration of the New Year, Catholic devotees flock to the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene-Parish of Saint John the Baptist Church in Quiapo in Manila, Philippines to prepare for the…

– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com Vatican City Iraqi patriarch to Pope Francis: Chaldean Church is ‘a church of martyrs’ (CNA) The Chaldean Catholic Church is a Church of martyrs, Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako of Babylon told Pope Francis this week.…

– ROBAIRD O’CEARBHAILL “Playing with your children, ‘wasting time’ with your children, is also a way to transmit the faith. It is graciousness, the graciousness of God,” Pope Francis told parents in Milan on March 28 2017. And, of course, playing…

Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com Reuters (Vatican News)  In his annual address to members of the diplomatic corps at the beginning of the new year, Pope Francis says the heightening of tensions between Iran and the United States “risks… compromising the…

– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro In the same year that the Rutok mission was opened in 1627, Cacela and Cabral left Cooch Biar and soon arrived in Paro, the capital of the Kingdom of Bhutan. In May of that year,…

– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com (Vatican News) “Come to me, all you who labour and are burdened” is the theme of the World Day of the Sick, to be marked on 11 February. In caring for the sick, Pope Francis…

– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com WASHINGTON AMID YEAR’S VIOLENCE, CATHOLIC LEADERS DECRY SHOOTINGS, URGE POLICY CHANGES (CNA) Amid the multiple mass shootings that took place in the U.S. during 2019, Catholic leaders spoke out against them, urged legislators to make…

– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Father António de Andrade will resume the very same route on June 17, 1625, this time accompanied by the confrere Gonçalo de Souza. The destination would be reached on 18 August, and Souza returned to…

– Devin Watkins Vatican News Pope Francis close the year 2019 with Evening Prayer and the singing of the Te Deum, and urges us to contemplate the presence of God in those who cry out for our assistance. At the…