Category: World

– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro In 1627, Estevão Cacela leaves for Shigatse, where he arrives in November of that year. “We decided to make this change because we think that all the favors of Lama Rupa were tricks to prevent…

– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com Vatican City Cardinal Sarah: Ideological push in Amazon synod an ‘insult to God’ (CNA) The push by some Westerners to use the Vatican’s Amazon synod to advance their personal agendas is an insult to God…

Wojciech Cydzik – ROBAIRD O’CEARBHAILL Being Polish for the vast part of the population means being Catholic.  They are not just practicing their faith but ninety per cent of them declare themselves officially as Catholic. The fact that they are…

Vatican Media through Zenit (Agenzia Fides) – “Rekindling our gift in the fire of the Spirit is the opposite of letting things take their course without doing anything. Fidelity to the newness of the Spirit is a grace that we…

– Robaird O’Cearbhaill Hong Kong Correspondent Catholic Social Teaching “holds that work is dignified and is an intrinsic good, and workers must always be respected and valued.” While at the Hong Kong Jewelry and Gem Fair, O Clarim talked to…

– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro During the Jesuits’ sojourn at the Bhutanese court, Shabdrung would order three of his monks to accompany them permanently. Two of them were very still young. One was twelve years old, “very naive and skilled,”…

– Tej Francis tejfrancis@gmail.com America Attacks on religious communities ‘a wound on all humanity’ Trump tells UN (Catholic Herald) ‘Stop the crimes against people of faith. Release prisoners of conscience. Repeal laws restricting freedom of religion and belief,’ Trump said…

– Maria Kwak (*) The 27th of September was the feast day of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, the protectress of those who sail since the early medieval period. Since the 8th century, Our Lady has been venerated with…

– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Here is the plot of the novel Lost Horizon, by James Hilton: May 1931. In British Raj India 80 Europeans are evacuated to Peshawar due to an ongoing revolution. On Chandrapore’s maharajah’s plane traveled Hugo…

– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com ASMARA, ERITREA ERITREAN BISHOPS SAY SEIZURE OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IS ‘HATRED AGAINST THE FAITH’ (CNA) Seven religious schools in Eritrea, four of them sponsored by the Catholic Church, have been seized by the country’s government…