Released Sri Lanka priests face ethical dilemma

The five Sri Lankan Catholic priests just released from refugee camps in the north are weighing whether they should return to the camps to serve there or work in parishes as their bishops have asked.
“It is an ethical dilemma,” acknowledged one of them, Fr E.S.C. Mariathas, parish priest of St Anne’s Church in Mullaitivu, who [...]

Vietnamese Ambassador to Italy meets Vatican rep

Vietnam’s Ambassador in Italy has met the Holy See Under Secretary for Relations with States, Msgr Ettore Balestero, to discuss relations with the Vatican and recent issues regarding the Catholic Church in Vietnam.
Ambassador Dang Khanh Thoai on August 22 reaffirmed Vietnam’s consistent policy of respecting and protecting the people’s right to religious freedom, Nhan Dan [...]

People first in economic crisis: Thai Catholic employers

Thailand’s Catholic Business Executives Group members say they will refuse to retrench employees or use undue pressure to collect payments from clients during the present global economic crisis.
“The crisis has impacted my company, but we didn’t lay off any employees,” Paul Mary Suwit Suwarujiporn, owner of a dairy company, told UCA News on the sidelines of a [...]

Hong Kong Catholics act on climate change

Hong Kong environmental group the Catholic Messengers of Green Consciousness has launched a four-month campaign to pray for the success of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December.
The group launched the campaign on Aug. 15, the feast of the Assumption. It runs until Dec. 31, during which time Catholic individuals and groups are invited to [...]

Ted Kennedy letter to Pope read at funeral

Ted Kennedy’s letter to Pope Benedict, sent through President Barack Obama during the US leader’s Vatican visit this year, was read out at the interment service in Arlington on Saturday.
“I am writing with deep humility to ask that you pray for me as my own health declines,’ Kennedy wrote according to news reports.
“I have been [...]

Pope was right about AIDS: Harvard scientist

The director of Harvard’s AIDS Prevention Research Project, Edward Green, has told a Rome conference that Benedict’s position on AIDS and condoms is correct.
Green stated this in an address at the 30th annual Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples in Rimini, sponsored by the lay movement, Communion and Liberation, ZENIT reports.
Green, an expert on AIDS prevention, [...]

The mystery of Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa, the diminutive nun who straddled her century as one of its most towering personalities, was at one level a very simple person and at another a complex enigma. (Navin Chawla, The Hindu)
In modern management parlance, she could well be projected as a management guru who could have presented to the world’s best business [...]

Is Indonesia moving from the bikini to the burkhini?

[All] the signs indicate that the world’s biggest Islamic population is becoming even more moderate, slowly but steadily. Here is the evidence. (Debnath Guharoy, The Jakarta Post)
In March of 2008, 52 percent of all Indonesians and 55 percent of all Muslims believed that “sharia law should be implemented in my area”. As at June 2009, [...]

International Young Christian Students Asia

The International Young Christian Students (IYCS) grew in the spirit of the specialized Catholic action movements that were inspired by Joseph Cardijn (the founder of the Young Christian Workers) in the late 1920’s.
IYCS is an international Catholic student movement of high school students, as well as students from colleges and tertiary institutions. In the wake [...]

Our Lady of Lourdes parish, Ipoh, Malaysia

This slideshow traces the history of the Our Lady of Lourdes parish in Ipoh, Malaysia, from the beginnings of the Catholic community in the area since the early 1900s.
Uploaded by YouTube user rameshv2801, it takes viewers to the erection of a parish activity building, the Bernadette Center.
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History of Our Lady of Lourdes, Ipoh (YouTube)

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