http://www.cathnewsasia.com A service of UCA News Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:37:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/asian-laity-held-back-by-clerical-structures/ http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/asian-laity-held-back-by-clerical-structures/feed/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:10:03 +0000 http://www.cathnewsasia.com/?p=17736 SOURCE Lay Catholics in Asia: a "sleeping giant" that is waking up (Asia News)]]> http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/asian-laity-held-back-by-clerical-structures/feed/ http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/leaders-blast-%e2%80%98cowardly%e2%80%99-lahore-attack-on-shias/ http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/leaders-blast-%e2%80%98cowardly%e2%80%99-lahore-attack-on-shias/feed/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:12:15 +0000 http://www.cathnewsasia.com/?p=17743 Lahore. The prelate was speaking in the wake of two suicide bombings and one grenade attack on Shias marking the martyrdom of Prophet Ali, one of Shia Islam’s most respected holy men, yesterday. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al-Alami, a banned Taliban movement, has claimed responsibility. “Our purpose was to avenge the murder of one of our leaders murdered a year ago,” says Qari Husain, the movement’s leader. “Police were removing the barriers toward the end of the religious procession when the first hand grenade was thrown,” said Tajamul Abbas, an observer. “Meanwhile two other explosions occurred at nearby crossroads.” In a separate incident yesterday, seven people were injured in Karachi when unidentified militants opened fire on Shia Muslims. “It is unbelievable that terrorism continues at a time when people should desperately help and share all available resources,” said Father Saleh Diego, diocesan director of the Catholic Bishop’s National Commission for Justice and Peace. “There is a remote threat to foreign Caritas workers presently visiting flood-hit areas. The situation here is like Afghanistan as extremists do not allow Christian influence and foreign aid to flood victims.” SOURCE Leaders blast ‘cowardly’ Lahore attack on Shias (ucanews.com)]]> http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/leaders-blast-%e2%80%98cowardly%e2%80%99-lahore-attack-on-shias/feed/ http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/caritas-pakistan-issues-call-for-female-doctors/ http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/caritas-pakistan-issues-call-for-female-doctors/feed/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:15:14 +0000 http://www.cathnewsasia.com/?p=17739 SOURCE Caritas Pakistan: urgent appeal for "female doctors to treat women" (Fides)]]> http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/caritas-pakistan-issues-call-for-female-doctors/feed/ http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/kerala-priest-actor-resigns-from-clergy/ http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/kerala-priest-actor-resigns-from-clergy/feed/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:18:08 +0000 http://www.cathnewsasia.com/?p=17734 SOURCE Kerala priest renounces robe for films (Times of India) PHOTO Indian Cinema Gallery]]> http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/kerala-priest-actor-resigns-from-clergy/feed/ http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/caritas-launches-millennium-goals-campaign/ http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/caritas-launches-millennium-goals-campaign/feed/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:18:49 +0000 http://www.cathnewsasia.com/?p=17729 SOURCE Caritas launches campaign to save Millennium Development Goals from failure (Christian Today)]]> http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/caritas-launches-millennium-goals-campaign/feed/ http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/no-need-for-god-in-the-universe-hawking/ http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/no-need-for-god-in-the-universe-hawking/feed/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:25:10 +0000 http://www.cathnewsasia.com/?p=17712 SOURCE God did not create universe: Hawking (The Age)]]> http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/no-need-for-god-in-the-universe-hawking/feed/ http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/medical-nuns-move-into-india%e2%80%99s-villages/ http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/medical-nuns-move-into-india%e2%80%99s-villages/feed/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:42:53 +0000 http://www.cathnewsasia.com/?p=17721 ucanews.com) The Medical Mission Sisters’ work in villages started in 1980 when three nuns from the south came to Selud village in central India and lived with a Hindu family. Later the sisters bought a plot of land and built a cottage in the village. “We felt our big hospitals don’t serve the poor,” says Sister Augustine, who has been working in the village for the last 10 years. The nuns, who work among tribal people, former “untouchables” of the caste system and other underprivileged groups, have formed 135 self-help groups for women and farmers in 56 villages. The villagers are able to manage the groups and “we can now move to other places,” said another nun, Sister Annu Thomas. FULL STORY 'Medical' nuns move into India’s villages (UCA News)]]> http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/medical-nuns-move-into-india%e2%80%99s-villages/feed/ http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/power-politics-and-the-church-in-burma/ http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/power-politics-and-the-church-in-burma/feed/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:16:19 +0000 http://www.cathnewsasia.com/?p=17717 FULL STORY Burma: Power, politics and the church in Burma (National Catholic Reporter) PHOTO CREDIT UCA News Photo]]> http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/power-politics-and-the-church-in-burma/feed/ http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/website-camillians-in-india/ http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/website-camillians-in-india/feed/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:27:45 +0000 http://www.cathnewsasia.com/?p=17715 LINK Camillians in India]]> http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/website-camillians-in-india/feed/ http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/video-uca-news-magazine-13/ http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/09/03/video-uca-news-magazine-13/feed/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:32:32 +0000 http://www.cathnewsasia.com/?p=17713 ucanews.com, on YouTube. 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