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Indonesian Catholic youths launch chastity campaign

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A Catholic youth group in Jakarta archdiocese has launched a nine-month-long campaign to stress the importance of chastity to other young people. (UCA News)


Neon crosses of the “Jerusalem of the East”

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(South Korea’s) Yoido Full Gospel is the mega-est of megachurches. (Melanie Kirkpatrick, Wall Street Journal)


IMPACT Magazine Online

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IMPACT Magazine was founded 40 years ago by the Philippine’s Most Rev Julio Xavier Labayen, OCD, bishop emeritus of the Prelature of Infanta in the eastern province of Quezon.


Music video: Jesus on the Cross

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A music video directed by Larry Manda, from Jescom Philippines.


Jesuits in India: Views and News

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Jivan, a magazine published 10 times a year, serves the Jesuits of South Asia and their friends, families, colleagues and collaborators.


Finding God in the Mountains

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A trailer featuring a production of Corpus Christi Watershed in association with Queen of China Catholic Ministries, which centers around some of the aboriginal tribes of Taiwan and their strong Catholic faith.


Religious repression meets living faith

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A report shows that more than two-thirds of the world’s people live under highly restrictive regimes. But faith can still find ways to act. (Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet)


Korean priest heartened by Pope’s message on new media

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The Pope’s recent message on the pastoral use of new media is a vindication for Father Matthew Cho Myeong-yeon. (UCA News)


Persecuted in prayer, in China

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It has been six weeks since worshippers at Beijing’s Shouwang House Church were abruptly shunted out of their long-time home in a nondescript low-rise building. (Michael Sainsbury, The Australian)


Thoughts on preaching guidelines

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The fathers of the Church preached for hours. Martin Luther told a discouraged preacher to not feel bad that he could not yet preach for an hour. Those days are past. People today expect about seven minutes and will on occasion endure 10. (Maryknoll Father William Grimm, UCA News)


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