“Spare the rod, spoil Malaysia”

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

Christians can be Pakistanis too

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

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

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

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

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 [...]

South Korea growing Christianity

There are few words to describe a visit to what is claimed to be the world’s largest church congregation. (Christopher Landau, BBC)
In just over 50 years, the Yoido Full Gospel Church has grown from five people meeting in its founding pastor’s home in South Korea, to a membership of more than 750,000 people.
It means that [...]

Korea’s Christians

A brief look at Christianity in Korea by YouTube user apostleshipofprayer. It traces a short history of the origins of the faith in the country and its growth through the years.
This video was uploaded in September 2008.
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Korean Martyrs (YouTube)

Holy See message for Hindu festival

Greeting the world’s 800,000 Hindus for the feast of Deepavali, or Diwali, the Vatican has asked them to work together with Christians “for integral human development.” (UCA News)
This means “the advance towards the true good of every individual, community and society, in every single dimension of human life,” explains the message from the Pontifical Council [...]

A trip to India’s most Christian and peaceful state

There are ten times more Catholics (in Kerala) than elsewhere (in India), but they live in peace with the Hindus and Muslims. Education is generalized, with equality between men and women. The only threat to this miracle comes from a Marxist government. (Sandro Magister, chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it)
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Asia’s two giants are emblematic. Not only from China, but also from [...]

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