Category: World

Joaquim Magalhães de Castro To my surprise I notice that in Hugli there is someone aware of some of the aspects connected with the saga of the Jesuits João Cabral and Estevão Cacela. This is the case of local parish…

Aurelio Porfiri In our past articles, often was remarked how the Church media landscape today is marked by strong divisions. These division of course were not born in the last five years, but maybe in this period they became stronger.…

Tej Francis USA TRUMP ADMINISTRATION RELEASES NEW RULE TO STOP TITLE X FUNDING FOR ABORTION PROVIDERS (www.pop.org) The Trump administration yesterday released a much-anticipated rule proposal to block federal Title X family planning grants from funding abortion clinics and service…

Fr Leonard E. Dollentas The growing awareness that it is urgently necessary to sustainably manage our planet’s resources and ecosystems probably first reached the general public at the beginning of 20th century. In 1971, in the Apostolic Letter of Pope…

Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Tired of successive conversions to the Christianity of many of his subjects, the new Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, began by prohibiting the entry and residence of more foreigners in 1629, and in 1632 imposed a siege…

Aurelio Porfiri We live in times of great relativism, times in which there seems to be no objective, firm, immutable truth. But it is not so and it is important that there are voices that try to confirm more and…

The twenty-five-year-old bitter fighting between the Sri Lankan Government (predominately Sinhalese) and the separatist movement of the Tamil Tigers came to an end in May of 2009. The bloody conflict and civil war killed an estimated seventy-thousand people, many of…

ISRAEL LATIN PATRIARCHATE OF JERUSALEM DECRIES VIOLENCE IN GAZA   (Al-Bushra) Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, has condemned the violence and the “cynical use of human lives” as Gaza buries 58 people killed…