Category: World

– Robaird O’Cearbhaill Hong Kong Correspondent As in the famous old song Irish homesick writer Ralph Cunningham is “a long way to Tipperary” where he was born. Nevertheless, as he told O Clarim, Hong Kong and Asia have very much…

– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Estêvão Cacela traces us a portrait of the Bhutanese,  presenting them as white people, “although the little cleanliness with which they are treated makes them not look so much.” Their hair is long, covering the…

– Tej Francis ROME POPE EMERITUS BENEDICT XVI VISITS PAPAL SUMMER RESIDENCE NEAR ROME (Vatican news) He passed many a summer evening in the quiet and relative cool of the gardens behind the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo during his…

– ROBAIRD O’CEARBHAILL Hong Kong Correspondent Nicholas Bodnar-Horvath lives comfortably from a successful legal practice but does not let that go to his head. From his Catholic roots and parents he insists that you “Treat people as you would like to…

– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro To a Portuguese, like Cacela, hearing about grapes certainly attracted his attention and although this fruit did not grow in Bhutan but in another place across the border, “in a town called Compo, which is…

– Tej Francis MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA FIRST PERMIT ISSUED UNDER AUSTRALIAN STATE’S ASSISTED SUICIDE, EUTHANASIA LAW (CNA) The first permit for medically assisted death in Victoria was issued in recent weeks, less than a month after the Australian state’s legalization of…

– Miguel Augusto (*) The 30th edition of “Mladifest” started yesterday in Medjugorje. The Youth Festival had been taking place since 1989 in the small Franciscan parish village of Bosnia and Herzegovina, today a Marian Shrine. Father Danko Perutina, former…

– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Estevão Cacela reserves some of the pages of his account to give us a general description of the kingdom that had the privilege of witness. It tells us that Bhutan “is rather large and extended…

– Tej Francis Washington D.C., Bring down ‘Iron curtain’ of persecution, Religious Freedom Ministerial told (CNA) U.S. leaders called for a worldwide “grassroots” movement to fight religious persecution at a global religious freedom gathering on Tuesday. The “iron curtain” of…