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Chariot festival brings Hindus and Christians together

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The ravages of war usually widen divisions between people, but the end of Sri Lanka’s civil conflict has seen Catholic and Hindus forging closer links. (ucanews.com)
Religious festivals are playing a prominent role in helping Catholics and Hindus live together as one community instead of being divided along spiritual lines.
In the Jaffna peninsula, healing within the [...]


Fall-out from Facebook

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Things in Pakistan seemed to be settling down peacefully after the Facebook saga. (Kamran Chaudhry, ucanews.com)


Video - UCA News Magazine

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UCA News Magazine, from ucanews.com, on YouTube.


Video - A young Christian in Lebanon

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Rita Youssif belongs to the Maronite Rite. When still a young girl in Lebanon she had to flee from her village because of the fighting. Despite all the upheavals, she came to realize that God had a plan for her life.


“Spare the rod, spoil Malaysia”

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Malaysia appears determined to make an international fool of itself. (John Berthelsen, Malaysian Insider)


Christians can be Pakistanis too

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One of the biggest challenges for Pakistani Christians is to be seen as Pakistanis and not as an offshoot of Western culture, Bishop Joseph Coutts of Faisalabad, director of Caritas in the country, believes. (Father John Murray, UCA News)
Christianity, along with democracy, tends to be seen as a purely Western force, with all the colonial [...]


Christian Chirp

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Christian Chirp looks like a new website, which describes itself as “the Christian Alternative to Twitter”.
On its site, it states the aim of being “a Christian social network providing a safe place for Christians to network & fellowship online”.
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Christian Chirp


A question of whom to trust, in Pakistan

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Last Sunday I attended a church service presided over by the Archbishop of Lahore, Lawrence Saldanha. There were armed guards at the entrance to the church plus nine plainclothes police placed in the congregation. (Father Frank Brennan, UCA News)
Pakistanis do not know whom to trust at this time.
Christians, who are less than 2 percent of [...]


Indian state’s demand to control school hiring

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Schools in Gujarat (India) will require authorisation from the State government before they can hire new teaching and non-teaching staff, this according to a circular letter sent by the State government led by Hindu extremist Narendra Modi. (Nirmala Carvalho, AsiaNews.it)
Under the terms of the new regulations, which were upheld by the Supreme Court, any publicly [...]


The Catholic Church in Pakistan - an overview

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Catholics are less than 1% of a total of over 160 million (in Pakistan). There are two archdiocese in the country, four dioceses and an apostolic prefecture. A small minority but active and appreciated for efforts in education, helping the poor, health care and emergency interventions (AsiaNews.it).
Pakistan … is the second largest Muslim country in [...]


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