– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com (Vatican News) “Dreams are a privileged place to seek after truth…. Many times even God chose to speak through dreams.” These are the words Pope Francis spoke in a homily during Mass at the Casa…
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MICHAEL NNADI: 18 YEARS OLD – One more Nigerian martyr
– José Maria C.S. André In the early 1990s, I met two priests from Rwanda. One had not heard from the family for a long time, another had just learned, after months of silence, that everyone in his family –…

GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (87)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro The tranquility of the beautiful Paro valley is only broken by the zigzag flights of the Bhutan Airlines and Druk Air planes, the only airlines authorized to fly over this narrow piece of land, which…

NEWS BRIEF
– Tej Francis Email:tejfrancis@gmail.com WASHINGTON D.C. HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT URGES DEFENSE OF PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS (CNA) The world must raise their voices and stand up for persecuted Christians, Hungarian State Secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians Tristan Azbej said Thursday.

NEW FORMS OF SOLIDARITY – Pope urges global finance leaders to reduce economic inequality
– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com (Vatican News) Pope Francis is calling on the architects of the global financial system to reduce rising income inequality by prioritizing the needs of the poor who are left behind by the globalization of indifference.

JOSEPH STA MARIA, MALACCA PORTUGUESE COMMUNITY ACTIVIST – My ancestors and my community are the custodians of Catholic faith in Malaysia
Joseph Sta Maria – Photo by Marco Carvalho – Marco Carvalho Promotor of the the Luso-Asian Communities Conference, Joseph Sta Maria became, over the past few years, a respected representative of the community of Portuguese-descendants of Malaysia. The “Portuguese of…

GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (86)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro The epic journey of Fathers Grueber and D’Orville had begun long before, in Lisbon, April 1657, in the company of seventeen other Jesuits (including the Flemish Ferdinand Verbiest) who would arrive in Macau on July…
NEWS BRIEFS
KADUNA, NIGERIA 1 OF 4 KIDNAPPED NIGERIAN SEMINARIANS RELEASED AFTER SUFFERING SERIOUS INJURIES (CNA) A Nigerian seminarian who was abducted this month was freed by his kidnappers after 10 days in captivity. Three seminarians kidnapped with him remain in captivity.…

POPE TO WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM – Human Person The Centre Of Integral Development
– Tej Francis tejfrancis@gmail.com (Vatican News) As the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum got under way in Davos, Switzerland, Pope Francis urged the world’s public and private sector leaders of their responsibility for the integral development of all…

CONSTANT THEME – Francis, the ‘geographies’ of peace
– Carlos M. Frota If there is a topic common to all Popes’ New Year addresses to the diplomatic corps and to the world community at large, to Christians and non Christians, peace is that topic. And not by coincidence,…