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Working Brothers of Jesus seek new members

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They work in factories, earn a salary and some of them even celebrate Mass. Are they priests or are they laymen? (UCA News)


Death Of A Priest

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“Death of a Priest” looks at the killing of Father Stanley Rother, a US missionary priest who had been working in Santiago Atitlan in Guatemala for 12 years, on July 28, 1981.


Search begins for “Pakistani Christian Idol”

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Capuchin Father Morris Jalal is staging Rising Stars, for young Christians at St. Francis Church in Lahore. (UCA News)


French priest on Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal

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An interview with French Catholic in Cambodia priest Father Francois Ponchaud, who was one of the first people to denounce Khmer Rouge atrocities, at the start of the UN-backed war crimes court.


Studio draws music lovers to Church

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A musician priest in eastern China says he hopes a professional recording studio he set up could help non-Catholics get to know God. (UCA News)


ePriest

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ePriest is a lay-run initiative, supported by a network of priests, to provide three main services to Parish Priests.


Albertus Herwanta: Indonesian green man in Rome

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All roads, it’s said, lead to Rome. The one that took Albertus Herwanta to the capital of Italy and the heart of his faith started far, far away - in a field in Central Java. (Duncan Graham, The Jakarta Post)


Papuan rights fighter honored

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Father Johanes Djonga (photo) from Jayapura diocese in Papua province has received the 2009 Yap Thiam Hien Award for his fight for Papuans’ rights. (UCA News)


The cooking priest

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It was a unique showdown. Celebrity chef and Food Network host Bobby Flay went to Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland, USA, and challenged one of its professors, Pinoy priest Rev. Leo Patalinghug, to a “throwdown” for Flay’s show Throwdown with Bobby Flay. (Asian Journal)


Appeal for detained, ill Vietnamese priest

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This page on the Amnesty International website lists an appeal for Vietnamese priest Father Nguyen Van Ly, who is in hospital and partially paralyzed.
It calls for urgent action and encourages people to write to the government of Vietname to agitate for the priest’s release and proper care.
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Amnesty International appeal for Fr Nguyen Van Ly


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