Malaysia seizes 15,000 bibles over use of ‘Allah’

Malaysian authorities have confiscated more than 15,000 Bibles imported from Indonesia in recent months because they referred to ‘God’ as ‘Allah’, Council of Churches of Malaysia general-secretary, Rev. Hermen Shastri says.
Rev. Shastri said authorities seized a consignment of 10,000 copies sent from Jakarta to Kuching in Sarawak state on Sept. 11 because the Indonesian-language Bibles [...]

Assassination an ‘act for peace’: Seoul cardinal

Seoul Cardinal Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk has described the assassination 100 years ago of a Japanese colonial official by Catholic independence activist, Thomas An Jung-geun, as an act for peace in East Asia.
An was a devoted Catholic whose actions were based on the justice of Christ, Cardinal Cheong said, UCA News reports.
The cardinal was speaking during [...]

Vatican hosts Matteo Ricci exhibition

The Vatican is hosting a major exhibition on Fr Matteo Ricci, the famous Italian Jesuit missioner to China, as part of celebrations marking the 400th anniversary of his death.
Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, president of the Governorate of Vatican City State, is scheduled to open the exhibition on Oct. 29 in the Charlemagne Wing of the colonnade [...]

Philippines priest had US ‘criminal history’

Detroit Archdiocese officials say that they have informed the Catholic Church in the Philippines of the conviction for sexual abuse of a former US seminarian later ordained for the diocese of Tagbilaran.
Ned McGrath, Director of Communications for the Archdiocese of Detroit, said in a statement that the Archdiocese only became recently aware of the ordination [...]

Celibacy dispute stalls Anglo-Catholic constitution

Vatican officials are in dispute over priestly celibacy provisions in the forthcoming Apostolic Constitution for Anglicans returning to the Catholic Church, papal biographer, Andrea Tornelli, is reporting.
Tornielli, the biographer of several modern Popes including Pope Benedict, said that just over a week after its existence was revealed by the Vatican, the text of the Apostolic [...]

Rio’s Redeemer to be renewed

Brazil’s Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro has announced plans to raise $3.5 million for a major restoration of the iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer with outstretched arms that overlooks the city.
Cleaning and repairing the 78 year-old statue will take four to six months, Rio de Janeiro Archbishop Ornani Tempesta told reporters on Wednesday, the [...]

Korea’s Catholic freedom fighter

The late An Jung-geun (1877-1910) is one of Korea’s most honored independence fighters, hailed for his daring assassination of the peninsula’s first Japanese Governor-General Hirobumi Ito to protest its annexation. (Shin Hae-in, Yonhap News Agency)
Monday marks the 100th anniversary of An’s patriotic deed, told and retold countless times in textbooks and through various artistic genres [...]

Yakkum helps Indonesian disabled

Although Yakkum is a faith-based organization (the name is an acronym for a Christian foundation) it doesn’t proselytize; the overall impression is that it’s a secular show. Most clients are Muslim and Maria (a Catholic) brushes aside suggestions of any discrimination in the provision of services. (Duncan Graham, The Jakarta Post)
“We care for people in [...]

CARITAS Shanghai

CARITAS Shanghai is an organisation aiming to enable the international Catholics in Shanghai to confidently support  aid and development activities within China, “in an effort to empower individuals who suffer in poverty, poor health and hopeless circumstances”, says its website.
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CARITAS Shanghai

Indian Piarist Fathers

A presentation about the presence of the Piarist Fathers in India. It looks at the origins and history of the mission in the country.
The video was uploaded by Youtube user rajupiarist in August 2008.
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Indian Piarist Fathers (YouTube)

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