Category: World

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…

– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro It is very likely that James Hilton, author of the novel Lost Horizon, written in 1933, had access to some of the letters sent by the Portuguese Jesuits in the distant first quarter of the…

– Tej Francis tejfrancis@gmail.com Ranchi, India Catholic leaders appeal for help after Jesuit school in India attacked (CNA) Catholics in the Archdiocese of Ranchi have appealed for help after a local Jesuit mission was brutally attacked by a large armed…

– Jasmin Yiu The Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE) has invited Msgr Eduardo Chávez PhD, Postulator of the Cause of Canonization of Saint Juan Diego, to present a talk on “The mother who brings the source of life,” explaining…