– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro After ten years of activity, the mission in Ngari, Western Tibet, had been deactivated, but that was not the reason why the courageous priests were defeated.
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PATRICK DAVIS – FROM MANAGEMENT TO PRIESTHOOD – Becoming a priest is not a choice, but a calling
– Robaird O’Cearbhaill Hong Kong Correspondent A devoted Catholic, Patrick Davis describes himself as a “social serial entrepreneur.” His successful years of building and managing a non-profit company, benefitting many in Asia, have shown his passion for helping the poorest…
TAAL VOLCANO ERUPTION – SVD Seminary offered refuge
The Philippines has been visited by several natural calamities before the coming of the new year. More recently typhoons have scourged central Luzon, and earthquakes in the south have wrought destruction. While affected areas were still recovering from those calamities,…
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– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com Gaza City Gaza Exodus: Helping Christians caught in a crisis (CNA) With fewer than 1,000 Christians in a population of 1.8 million, the Christian population in Palestine’s Gaza Strip today is less than half of…
POPE AT WEDNESDAY AUDIENCE – Even if church is persecuted, it never tires of welcoming
– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com (Vatican News) Pope Francis, concluding his catechesis on the Acts of the Apostles tells pilgrims that even if the Church is persecuted and chained, it never tires of welcoming with a motherly heart.
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (84)
– 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…
MANILA – Procession of the Black Nazarene
– 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…
NEW BRIEFS
– 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.…
AT THE HONG KONG TOY FAIR – I have a wonderful job, it’s the dream of my life
– 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…
POPE ON IRAN-USA CRISIS – Dialogue and Respect for International Law
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…