Video - UCA News Magazine

UCA News Magazine, a service of UCA News, will be featured weekly with updates of happenings across the continent.

Video - Catholic Australia and Vatican II

The Australian ABC program Compass explores the Catholic Church in Australia during one of the most dynamic periods in its recent history, the Second Vatican Council (1962-65).

Website - Catholic education in Hong Kong

The bilingual Catholic Education Office website of Hong Kong provides a vast range of information on Catholic education there, from background on the culture, its ethos, organizational structures, on its school and other related activities, and more.

Obama’s Catholic school in Indonesia

Long shadowed in the United States by dark rumors that he attended a radical Muslim school while growing up in Indonesia, President Obama faces pressure from some old school pals to finally come clean about the past. (Andrew Higgins, Washington Post)

Young Catholics join Hindu festival

Some young Catholics who took part in a Hindu festival say they did so to help them understand the religion better. (UCA News)

Cardinal Newman’s influence in Sri Lanka

(A few) Sundays ago (February. 21), a kindly retired priest next to me at church gently reminded me that it is Cardinal John Newman Day, in celebration of Newman’s birth in 1801. (Professor S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole, Sri Lanka Guardian)

Asian Catholics bring vitality to Church in Canada

Despite language barriers, the disruptive experience of immigration and other obstacles, Asian Catholics are integrating into Canadian life and keeping their faith alive in Edmonton. (Chris Miller, Western Catholic Reporter)

A Catholic and a lotus-seater

Madonna swears by it. So do Geri Halliwell and Sting. That’s just the celeb brigade. Now,it’s the turn of the Catholic Church to mix prayers and pranayams. (Ashley d’Mello, Times of India)

Caritas Francis Hsu College

Caritas Francis Hsu College in Hong Kong was founded to produce graduates who are sound academically, professionally and morally.

Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines

The Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP) is the biggest organized group of Catholic schools in the country, instituted in 1941.

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