http://www.cathnewsasia.com A service of UCA News Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:38:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Six Pakistani workers from the US-based Christian charity World Vision were shot dead and seven others wounded in an attack on their office in Mansehra, a popular tourist destination in northern Pakistan. Those injured include Imtiaz, a local Christian, UCA News reports. Survivors of the attack said up to 15 masked men ... http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/03/12/six-world-vision-workers-killed-in-pakistan/ Police have detained an “underground” priest of Mindong diocese, eastern China, and fined his fellow priests a month after they organized youth camps for university students. Father John Baptist Luo Wen, 39, pastor of the Holy Family Church, has been in “administrative detention” at a government-run guesthouse in Fu’an city since ... http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/03/12/fujian-priest-detained-over-youth-camp/ After completing their training in an Austrian Abbey, four newly trained monks will return to Sri Lanka next week to found a Cistercian Abbey in their homeland. In 2001, three young candidates for the monastic life from the Archdiocese of Colombo had arrived in Austria with the Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey, to ... http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/03/12/new-cistercian-abbey-for-sri-lanka/ The Japan Bible Society (JBS) is about to start work on a new edition of the Japanese-language New Interconfessional Translation of the Bible. The last edition was published in 1987 and the JBS hopes the new version will come out in June 2016, UCA News reports. The interdenominational JBS said the main reasons ... http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/03/12/japanese-get-to-work-on-new-bible-translation/ Sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church are proof that that "the Devil is at work inside the Vatican", the Holy See's chief exorcist, Fr Gabriele Amorth says. Father Amorth, 85, who has been the Vatican's chief exorcist for 25 years and says he has dealt with 70,000 cases of ... http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/03/12/devil-to-blame-for-sex-abuse-crisis-vatican-exorcist/ Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schonborn has said that priestly celibacy should be considered in studying the causes of the sex abuse scandal sweeping the Church although he later insisted that he was not questioning the tradition of clerical celibacy. Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the Archbishop of Vienna, wrote in his archdiocese's magazine this ... http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/03/12/viennas-schonborn-says-study-celibacy-abuse-links/ They work in factories, earn a salary and some of them even celebrate Mass. Are they priests or are they laymen? (UCA News) “Yes, people get confused, but it has been a happy confusion,” said Goa-born Father Bartholomew Dias, 64, of the Little Brothers of Jesus. The priest, on a home visit ... http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/03/12/working-brothers-of-jesus-seek-new-members/ In June last year a solitary Uighur from Xinjiang Province in China arrived in Phnom Penh seeking asylum. He registered his claim with the Cambodian Government and with UNHCR. (Fr Frank Brennan, Eureka Street) Like East Timor, Cambodia became a signatory to all major UN human rights instruments when in receipt ... http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/03/12/uighurs-failed-by-cambodias-sham-refugee-law/ The website of the International Association of Lay Cistercian Communities provides information about Lay Cistercian Communities around the world, the monasteries with which they are associated, and the birth and development of this contemplative movement within the Cistercian Family. Members of the Lay Cistercian vocation seek to live as "an active ... http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/03/12/international-association-of-lay-cistercian-communities/ Pope Benedict XI expressed his solidarity and support for victims of the recent earthquake in Turkey, urging for generous contributions to relief work. In this video by the Vatican, he also stated condolences to the victims of "the atrocious violence, that has stained Nigeria with blood and has not spared even ... http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/03/12/pope-violence-does-not-resolve-conflicts/