Category: World

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…

Tej Francis WASHINGTON DC RELIGIOUS FREEDOM EFFORTS IN THE SPOTLIGHT AS NORTH KOREAN PRISONERS FREED (CNA/EWTN News) The release of three American prisoners from North Korea was hailed as an important first step in addressing abuses within the nation, as…

Tej Francis MEXICO CITY, MEXICO PRIEST FROM OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE BASILICA FOUND DEAD AFTER KIDNAPPING (ACI Prensa) An 84-year-old priest of the Archdiocese of Mexico City was found dead in Cuernavaca, the capital of Mexico’s Morelos state, April 25.…

Jasmin Yiu Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan has organized a conference named “Between Knowledge and Evangelization” last Wednesday, 2nd May. A number of publications from Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong were invited to attend the conference, in order to…