– 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…
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POPE AT TE DEUM – God enters the world in the least among us
– 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…
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– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com Melbourne, Australia Christmas Eve carolers for Cardinal Pell gathered at Melbourne prison (CNA) A group of local Catholics gathered outside Melbourne prison on Christmas Eve to sing carols for Cardinal George Pell, currently incarcerated in…
THE HOPEFUL JOURNEY TO PEACE – The Path of Reconciliation
– Fausto Gomez OP Since 1968, on the first day of every year, Christians around the world celebrate the World Day of Peace. Pope Paul VI established the yearly celebration on January 1, 1968: “We address ourself to all men of…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (80)
– 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…
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– 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…
RUIJI IZUMI, JESUIT PRIEST AND DESCENDANT OF A BROTHER OF ST FRANCIS XAVIER – Christianity is not a private religion; it is a family religion for the whole mankind
– 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…
VATICAN DIPLOMACY – What For?
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…
500TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FAITH IN THE PHILIPPINES (7) – Vatican II and the Philippine Church
– 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.…