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by bcadmin | Oct 31, 2022 | Asia, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, FABC, federation of asian bishops' conferences, News | 0 |
Catholic bishops in Asia have committed themselves to engage with governments, nongovernmental agencies and civil organizations to respond to issues affecting the church and society in their work for a better Asia.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 17, 2022 | Asia, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Church in Asia, FABC, federation of asian bishops' conferences, lead, News, Tokyo | 0 |
Bishops will seek to “dialogue” with the people of Asia during the second week of the 50th anniversary meeting of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) taking place this week in Bangkok, Thailand.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 20, 2022 | Asia, Cardinal Parolin, Cardinal Zen, CCP, News, Pope Francis, Sino-Vatican Deal, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis has a golden opportunity to make amends for his treatment of Cardinal Joseph Zen, set to go on trial in Hong Kong. The trial of Cardinal Zen has now been delayed after one judge tested positive for COVID. It is now set for September 21 instead. Zen – a long-standing critic of the
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 13, 2022 | Asia, Asia - Pacific, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Cardinal William Goh, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
While Filipino prelate, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, is seen as the leading candidate to succeed Pope Francis – should the Pontiff follow the precedent set by his predecessor, Benedict XVI, and announce his resignation in the near-future – head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Singapore, Cardinal William Goh, is emerging as another papabile from
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Read MoreWhile Pope Francis last week repeated his previous warning about a global conflict, he should perhaps be more concerned about his own faustian pact. The Pontiff has, of course, already come in for criticism for his stance towards the war in Ukraine. While the Pope praised Ukrainians for fighting for their survival, he has said
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 29, 2022 | Asia, Cardinals, Church in Asia, Consistory, Document on Human Fraternity, East Timor, lead, News, Papal travel | 0 |
East Timor’s new and first-ever cardinal has said his small nation, one of the few Catholic majority countries in Asia that is neighbored by the world’s largest Muslim nation, is awaiting a papal visit that was postponed due to the coronavirus.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | Africa, Americas, Asia, Cardinal Zen, CCP, India, News, persecution of Christians, Vatican, World News | 0 |
One of the most dispiriting things about the recent Vatican-China deal, and its looming second renewal (in spite of the fact that renewal will essentially green light ongoing persecution of Christians within China) is how remarkably chilled out so many Western Catholics appear to be. One would have thought Catholics would be up in arms
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 18, 2022 | Asia, News, World News | 0 |
Cardinal Joseph Zen – a long-standing critic of the Vatican’s accommodation with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – has now has his trial date set for September 19, following his earlier arrest under China’s national security law. He and four others face charges of failing to properly register a now-defunct fund to help anti-government protesters
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 4, 2022 | Asia, CCP, China, News, Pope Francis, Taiwan, World News | 0 |
On Tuesday, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan, the island democracy which China views as a renegade province. Although the US does not officially recognise Taiwan as an independent state, in reality most countries – including the US – view Taiwan as a country in its own right. For the Chinese Communist Party
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 27, 2022 | Asia, Bishops Conference of Catholic Church in China, Canada, CCP, Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, News, Sino-Vatican Deal, Vatican | 0 |
Even as Pope Francis is undertakes a pilgrimage of penance across Canada – apologising for past atrocities committed by Catholic clergy against indigenous peoples – he has indicated the Vatican’s deal with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a regime known for its brutality and repression, will be renewed once more. Coming just after reports that
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 22, 2022 | Asia, CCP, China, Christian persecution, News, Taiwan, World News | 0 |
China’s persecution of Catholics has escalated, according to Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, even as one Vatican official said the two sides are talking about opening a representative office in Beijing. According to spokesperson Joanne Ou, the Vatican has been requesting China’s permission for a representative office to be established since 1999. Yet, as the
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 20, 2022 | Asia, Catholic nuns, China, Human trafficking, jane austen, mainstream media, Marriage, Netflix, News, Social Justice, Starbucks, The Dispatch, The Great Reset, The Left, The Real Presence, Traditional Latin Mass | 0 |
Netflix’s Persuasion – There are ways to adapt Austen for a contemporary audience, but those ways are not this way, and I say this not as a purist. Everyone involved should be in prison: Netflix’s […]
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