A friend from Poland sent me an endless video, filmed with the cell phone: a huge queue, going around a corner and around another corner and on and on… to a place to give blood to send to Ukraine.
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Polish Church cares for fleeing Ukrainians
“There is no reason for excluding the possibility of another wholesale repression of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church as came about in 1946 with the complicity of the Orthodox brethren and the blessing of Moscow,” he stated.
Memories of other invasions
Those from a lot longer ago, World War II, few are still alive. But an 81 year-old remembers …
Macau Catholics pray for peace
Pope Francis asked and the local Catholic communities complied. Hundreds of people packed the local churches on Wednesday to pray for peace in the world and in Ukraine, in particular. The Supreme Pontiff called on people to pray and fast for peace in Eastern Europe.
Si vis pacem…and pacifism
Yet we know very well how war is part of human life, it is something that we could never completely eliminate, even if we wanted to. A traditional saying goes: si vis pacem, para bellum. If you want peace, prepare for war.
HEROES OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH IN THE EAST: The hardships of the missionary life (5)
When Father João de Brito arrived in a community, he faced intense work: he received hundreds of people whose confessions he heard, to whom he gave advice or taught doctrine.
HEROES OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH IN THE EAST: Brito and the penitent life of the swamis (4)
Fr João Brito’s mystical experience, paying more attention to the evangelical challenge than to the specificity of earthly life, made him bold and indifferent to the rich, but brought him closer to the populations.
USJ to cooperate with East Timor’s Catholic University
The University of Saint Joseph (USJ) will collaborate with Saint John Paul II Catholic University, a newly established East Timorese higher education institution. As soon as the epidemic scenario allows travel to resume, USJ intends to institute exchange programs with East Timor’s Catholic University for students and teachers alike.
Cardinal Bo: Myanmar – an ‘extended Way of the Cross’
“We feel your pain, your suffering, your starvation; we understand your disappointment; we understand your resistance,” the Cardinal underlined. “But to some who believe only in violent resistance, we say ‘there are other means.’”
The Persecuted: True stories of Courageous Christians
“In 2014, I had no idea there was an asylum seeker crisis there, a result of thousands of Pakistani Christians fleeing persecution in their native country. Over the years, I learned to become the advocate of these Christians, many of whom are nothing less than heroes.”