2019-12-18 08:15
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2019-12-18 07:54
A few months ago, a group of Malaysian senior citizens smuggled an item across the Thai border and spirited it down to the northern state of Perak.
Then, a few weeks ago, the same g… Read More
2019-12-18 07:27
Survivors of a strong earthquake that hit the southern Philippine province of Davao del Sur and surrounding areas are appealing for help, especially water.
At least nine people were repor… Read More
2019-12-17 11:39
Protests
have erupted in many Indian states against a law that grants citizenship to non-Muslim
illegal immigrants from three nearby countries.
The northeastern state of Assam was the fir… Read More
2019-12-17 09:15
The new head of the social action arm of the Philippine Catholic Church looks forward to taking a more active role in peace-building efforts between warring factions in the country.
Bisho… Read More
2019-12-17 09:06
Old age “is a time of grace” and
society needs to “move in step” with the elderly, Pope Francis told a group of
his peers on Dec. 16, the day before his 83rd birthday… Read More
2019-12-17 08:18
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the new prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, warned against “fake news”, urging people to instead help spread the Good News… Read More
2019-12-17 07:55
China is now arguably the leader in biometric surveillance technologies that use artificial intelligence, including facial recognition and all the other biometrics one can imagine — ge… Read More
2019-12-17 07:23
With the government often refusing to allow
the building of churches, Indonesia’s Denpasar Diocese faces ‘tough’
evangelization challenges.
Trying to build a churc… Read More
2019-12-17 02:57
We in
the Philippines have been battered successively with a string of typhoons and
earthquakes this year, leaving perhaps the question in our minds as 2019 draws
to a close: Is it the &ldqu&hell…Read More
2019-12-16 21:35
Natal adalah waktu untuk melihat kehidupan dan untuk bertanya tentang apa makna Natal sebenarnya, kata Paus Fransiskus kepada sekelompok musisi internasional.
“Momen sebelum Na… Read More
2019-12-16 16:15
Para pemimpin Kristen bertemu dengan menteri dalam negeri Bangladesh untuk meminta agar perayaan Natal tahun ini dijaga secara khusus.
Dua puluh pemimpin Kristen bertemu dengan Menteri Da… Read More
2019-12-16 15:52
Selama kunjungan Paus Fransiskus pada bulan November ke Jepang, Harumi Suzuki berdiri di tepi jalan ketika iring-iringan mobilnya berjalan dengan memegang papan yang bertuliskan, “Saya… Read More
2019-12-16 10:03
Christmas is a time to look upon life
and ask what it is really all about, Pope Francis told an international group
of music artists.
“The time
before Christmas calls us to
ask ours… Read More
2019-12-16 09:15
Protests over a new Indian citizenship
law based on religion spread to student campuses on Dec. 16 as critics said the
Hindu nationalist government was pushing a partisan agenda in conflict… Read More
2019-12-16 08:16
Christian leaders met with Bangladesh’s home minister to request special security for this year’s Christmas celebrations.
Twenty Christian leaders met with Home Minister… Read More
2019-12-16 06:41
The Christmas season kicks off in the Philippines when people start hanging parol, or Christmas lanterns, outside their homes in September.
The parol has become a symbol of Filipino Chris… Read More
2019-12-16 05:37
Since 2016, Myanmar’s military, the Tatmadaw, has been able to murder over 24,000 Rohingya, rape over 18,000, and thereby drive approximately 1.8 million refugees from their homes in R… Read More
2019-12-16 05:06
During Pope Francis’ November visit to Japan, Harumi Suzuki stood by the roadside as his motorcade went by holding a sign that read: “I am a survivor.”
On another day of… Read More
2019-12-16 04:04
China’s state broadcaster CCTV on Dec. 15 removed Arsenal’s Premier League game against Manchester City from its broadcast schedule following Mesut Ozil’s messages that cri… Read More
2019-12-13 11:37
Seorang pemimpin gereja mengatakan India kemungkinan tidak akan menyelenggarakan Hari Kaum Muda Asia atau Asian Youth Day (AYD) berikutnya yang dijadwalkan akan diadakan di negara itu pada 2… Read More
2019-12-13 10:41
Myanmar
leader Aung San Suu Kyi called on World Court judges on Dec. 12 to dismiss an
accusation of genocide against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority, saying
its own justice syst… Read More
2019-12-13 09:51
A
reported outbreak of bubonic plague in Inner Mongolia has authorities as well
as ordinary people running scared, according to one local Catholic in the north
China region.
Jacob Zhang f… Read More
2019-12-13 08:19
A church leader says it is doubtful the next Asian Youth Day will be held in India in 2021 as originally scheduled.
The 8th Asian Youth Day (AYD) was initially set to take… Read More
2019-12-13 08:15
The Catholic Church in the Philippines has opened a “social action academy” that aims to “professionalize” the church’s social action and humanitarian response… Read More
2019-12-13 06:53
Normita Lopez wept in one corner of the church, in the shadow of a confessional, as she looked up at sign posted above the crucified Christ on the altar.
“Stop the killings,”… Read More
2019-12-13 05:48
A network of faith-based and human rights groups in the Philippines has transmitted this week a report to the United Nations on the human rights situation in the country.
Members of the
E… Read More
2019-12-13 05:30
Beijing dikhawatirkan sedang mempersiapkan uskup baru untuk memimpin keuskupan yang belum diakui oleh Vatikan, menurut beberapa imam di Cina bagian utara.
Jika terbukti, langkah itu akan… Read More
2019-12-13 03:32
Beijing
could be preparing to create a new bishop to oversee a diocese not yet
recognized by the Vatican, according to several priests in northern China.
If true, the move would undermin… Read More
2019-12-12 12:39
Mantan uskup Hong Kong dan yang sangat vokal mengkritisi kebijakan Paus Fransiskus dengan Cina, Kardinal Joseph Zen, dinobatkan sebagai pemenang Penghargaan Juara Demokrasi Tiongkok Wei Jing… Read More
2019-12-12 09:15
India moved thousands of troops into the
northeastern state of Assam on Dec. 12 after violent protests overnight against
a new law that would make it easier for non-Muslim minorities from so… Read More
2019-12-12 07:35
A
Catholic bishop in the southern Philippines has warned against what he
described as “irregular priests” who continue to administer
sacraments to the faithful in his diocese… Read More
2019-12-12 06:48
Political
prisoners, including suspected top leaders of the country’s communist
insurgency, prevailed this week against efforts to throw them to far-flung
detention centers.
Fides L… Read More
2019-12-12 06:19
Former
bishop of Hong Kong and vocal opponent of Pope Francis’ rapprochement with
China, Cardinal Joseph Zen, has been named this year’s winner of the Wei
Jingsheng Chinese Democ… Read More
2019-12-12 03:32
It was a brazen daytime attack by ethnic rebels
fighting for greater autonomy in the jungles of western Myanmar.
After storming a boat
off the coast of Rakhine State, the insurgents kidna… Read More
2019-12-11 12:30
Sedikitnya 56 orang dilaporkan mengalami pelecehan seksual di gereja-gereja dan lembaga-lembaga Katolik di seluruh Indonesia, menurut laporan sebuah majalah mingguan yang diterbitkan oleh se… Read More
2019-12-11 08:05
China imprisoned
at least 48 journalists in 2019, more than any other country, displacing Turkey
as the most oppressive place for the profession, a report by the Committee to
Protect Journal… Read More
2019-12-11 07:35
Five foreign
experts have quit a panel advising Hong Kong’s police watchdog on an
investigation into police conduct during months of pro-democracy protests after
raising doubts about t… Read More
2019-12-11 06:59
Church workers
toiling in the dangerous frontlines of social conflict in Manila are praying
that Pope Francis will appoint a “brave, courageous prophet” to
replace Cardinal Luis… Read More
2019-12-11 05:32
At least 56
people have been subjected to sexual abuse in Catholic churches and
institutions across Indonesia, according to a weekly magazine report published
by a parish in West Jakarta.&nb&hell…Read More
2019-12-11 04:13
The Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct
Commission (IPCMC) Bill was supposed to be one of the cornerstones of the new
Malaysian administration, which had swept into power 18 months… Read More
2019-12-11 03:39
The appointment of Cardinal Luis Tagle
of Manila to a top post in the Vatican has offered hope to church leaders in
Asia that the challenges they face will be given more attention.
Pope F… Read More
2019-12-10 16:03
Seorang pensiunan uskup agung dari timur laut India mendapat penghargaan atas upayanya membangun perdamaian dan puluhan tahun kerja sukarela di antara beberapa kelompok suku di India.
Dew… Read More
2019-12-10 08:37
Having conceived without sin, Mary is
a “masterpiece” who reflects “the beauty of God,” and offers
hope to sinners Pope Francis said during his weekly Angelus address… Read More
2019-12-10 07:44
Cardinal
Luis Antonio Tagle, incoming head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the
Evangelization of Peoples, urged Asian bishops to bring in more women and youth
in its communications b… Read More
2019-12-10 07:10
A group of U.S. legislators has urged the International
Olympic Committee (IOC) to speed up implementation of requirements that hold host cities to
international human rights norms and stand… Read More
2019-12-10 06:26
A retired archbishop from India’s northeast has been recognized
for his peace efforts and decades of volunteer
work among some of India’s tribal groups.
The Delhi-based Intern… Read More
2019-12-10 03:49
They crossed seas, they
visited churches, schools, and even went from one house to another in villages,
to look for future shepherds of the Lord’s flock.
Father
Polinar Lope, a prie… Read More
2019-12-10 03:03
Human rights campaigners supporting
Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority called for a global boycott of the country,
a day before genocide hearings began at the International Court of Ju… Read More
2019-12-09 09:57
Seorang uskup Katolik di Filipina telah meminta kepada pemerintah untuk membebaskan tahanan politik bertepatan dengan kesempatan peringatan Hari HAM Internasional pada 10 Desember.
Uskup… Read More
2019-12-09 08:46
An 18th century church
in the central Philippine province of Eastern Samar has risen from the rubble
and was reconsecrated six years after it was destroyed by Super Typhoon Haiyan
in 2013… Read More
2019-12-09 07:15
Police and plain clothed security officials
broke up a charity event organized by the Catholic Church for disabled South
Vietnamese war veterans in southern Tien Giang province, according to… Read More
2019-12-09 06:27
A man and a woman
passed out while receiving public floggings during separate punishments for
violating strict Islamic laws in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Dec. 5
The
2… Read More
2019-12-09 05:48
A Catholic bishop in
the Philippines has appealed to the government for the release of political
detainees on the occasion of the observance of International Human Rights Day
on Dec. 10… Read More
2019-12-09 05:07
A controversial amendment to India’s citizenship law that
discriminates against Muslims goes against the spirit of the country’s Constitution,
says human rights activists, church… Read More
2019-12-09 03:01
Child abuse and murder highlight religious schools in Malaysia operating without licence or accountability.
An ugly incident in a
school in Malaysia recently has re-ignited a wider debate… Read More
2019-12-08 16:28
Paus Fransiskus telah menunjuk Kardinal Luis Antonio Tagle untuk jabatan besar di Vatikan, dalam suatu langkah yang kemungkinan akan meningkatkan peluang kardinal asal Filipina itu untuk ter… Read More
2019-12-08 16:09
Pope Francis has named
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle to a major global Vatican post in a move likely to
increase the Filipino’s chances of one day being elected pope himself.
The
Vati… Read More
2019-12-08 00:13
Kardinal Joseph Zen berbicara dengan Jan Jekielek dari The Epoch Times, sebuah media yang berbasis di Amerika Serikat, tentang berbagai masalah dalam video berdurasi hampir 40 menit di atas… Read More
2019-12-08 00:09
Paus Fransiskus mengkritik orang-orang yang mengaku Kristen, tetapi secara aktif mencari nasihat dari peramal nasib dan duduk untuk membaca kartu tarot.
Paus mengatakan iman yang sejati a… Read More
2019-12-06 10:36
Cardinal Joseph Zen talks
with Jan Jekielek from U.S.-based The Epoch Times about a range of issues in
the above near 40-minute long video.
As
a part of the interview, the 87-year-old car… Read More
2019-12-06 09:56
The Philippine
government increased pressure this week on the country’s two water
concessionaires with an announcement that it is junking the
“premature” extensions of the… Read More
2019-12-06 09:05
Pope Francis has roundly criticized people who claim to be Christians, but who actively seek out fortune tellers and sit for tarot card readings.
The pope said true faith is abandoning on… Read More
2019-12-06 08:14
Catholics in China must put loyalty to the state before their faith, according to a Chinese bishop.
“Love for the homeland must be greater than the love for the Church and the… Read More
2019-12-06 07:18
The lead lawyer in the upcoming genocide hearings against Myanmar wants the United Nations’ International Court of Justice (ICJ) to push for investigators be allowed into the country… Read More
2019-12-06 04:37
An 80-year-old missionary nun in the Philippines posted bail on Dec. 6, to avoid arrest for charges of “perjury” that were filed by no less than the government’s National S… Read More
2019-12-06 04:17
There are 1-3 million
Uyghurs (also known as Uighurs) and other Turkic Muslims currently detained in
“reeducation” camps in China, and the world is finally waking up to what shou… Read More
2019-12-05 16:19
Para pemimpin Kristen di negara bagian Telangana, India selatan, menyambut baik pemberian pemerintah negara bagian sebesar 100.000 rupee (US$ 1.428) masing-masing kepada 200 gereja unt… Read More
2019-12-05 16:00
Enam pria Muslim di negara bagian Terengganu yang konservatif di bagian timur laut Malaysia telah dijatuhi hukuman satu bulan penjara karena tidak mengikuti shalat Jumat, menurut laporan ber… Read More
2019-12-05 08:40
Christian leaders of the southern Indian state of Telangana have welcomed a state government gift of 100,000 rupees (US$ 1,428) each to 200 churches for Christmas.
The Telangana
governmen… Read More
2019-12-05 07:49
If
Pope Francis bestowed on himself the “Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice”
award or even the highest papal award, the “Supreme Order of Christ,”
it wouldn’t be right… Read More
2019-12-05 06:54
The
Philippines has started the observance of the “Year of Ecumenism,
Inter-religious Dialogue, and the Indigenous Peoples” this month as part
of preparations for the observance… Read More
2019-12-05 05:46
Six Muslim men in Malaysia’s conservative northeastern state of Terengganu have been handed one-month jail terms for missing Friday prayers, according to a news report.
The punishme… Read More
2019-12-05 05:21
The list of names was very long, some 629 Pakistani girls and women sold off as brides to Chinese men and whisked off to an uncertain and often brutal future in China.
It was put to… Read More
2019-12-05 04:27
Pada suatu pagi yang cerah, saat fajar merekah, saya menyaksikan mukjizat yang sering terlupakan. Seperti halnya pada hari kerja biasa saya, di mana saya menemukan diri saya terjebak dalam l… Read More
2019-12-04 11:17
The U.S. House of Representatives on Dec. 3 overwhelmingly approved a bill that would require the Trump administration to toughen its response to China’s crackdown on its Muslim minori… Read More
2019-12-04 10:09
Efforts to protect Thai seafood workers from labour exploitation and modern slavery risk stalling as most international brands and retailers refuse to pay their suppliers more to comply with… Read More
2019-12-04 07:42
Eleven North Korean defectors trying to get to South Korea are
being held in Vietnam and are seeking help to avoid being sent back, a South
Korean activist group said Dec. 2.
The group of… Read More
2019-12-04 07:14
Bangladesh is preventing
aid groups from providing any meaningful education to almost 400,000 Rohingya
children in refugee camps and banning them from attending school outside the
camps, acc… Read More
2019-12-04 04:32
A parish in the central Philippines is trying to build its collection of religious artifacts to prove its claim as one of the oldest, if not the first parish, to be established in the countr… Read More
2019-12-04 04:01
A Catholic prelate in the southern Philippine region of Mindanao called for what he described as “inclusive dialogue” to address the issues affecting communities in conflict area… Read More
2019-12-04 03:24
Chinese tech firms are molding United Nations’ standards for facial recognition as well as video monitoring, according to leaked documents published in a Financial Times report.
Sec… Read More
2019-12-03 09:56
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak took to the witness box for the first time on Dec. 3 to defend himself on criminal charges linked to a multibillion-dollar scandal at state fund 1… Read More
2019-12-03 08:57
The social action arm of the Catholic Church in the Philippines has activated its emergency response units as a strong typhoon hit the country on Dec. 3.
Father Edwin Gariguez, head of Ca… Read More
2019-12-03 08:27
A recent and often ignored rule prohibiting minors from entering churches is now being strictly enforced in many dioceses in China’s northern Hebei province, church peop… Read More
2019-12-03 04:04
The Indian government needs to take stern action against discrimination meted to students and faculty belonging to marginal social groups in educational institutions of national importance… Read More
2019-12-03 01:29
Warisan mematikan dari serangkaian perang saudara selama puluhan tahun di Myanmar berlanjut, setelah seorang turis asing terbunuh dan rekannya terluka dalam sebuah ledakan yang diduga ranjau… Read More
2019-12-03 00:47
The brutal legacy of Myanmar’s decades-long series of civil wars continues, after a foreign tourist was killed, and his companion injured, in a suspected landmine explosion in northern… Read More
2019-12-02 15:27
Membuka masa Adven, Paus Fransiskus meminta umat Katolik untuk memilih doa dan berbuat kasih daripada konsumerisme. Hal itu disampaipkan paus selama Misa pertama menandai tahun liturgi baru… Read More
2019-12-02 15:07
Pemerintah Cina telah memperkenalkan peraturan baru yang mewajibkan orang memindai wajah mereka saat mendaftarkan layanan telepon seluler baru.
Peraturan tersebut, yang bertujuan untuk me… Read More
2019-12-02 14:52
Lebih dari seratus gambar Santa Perawan Maria diarak di sekitar tembok kota tua di Manila pada 1 Desember menjelang peringatan Perayaan Maria Dikandung Tanpa Noda pada 8 Desember nanti.
R… Read More
2019-12-02 08:48
Hundreds of office workers in Hong Kong’s business district gathered on Dec. 2 for the first in a week of lunchtime protests backing the pro-democracy movement after its resounding vic… Read More
2019-12-02 08:12
More than a hundred images of the Blessed Virgin Mary were paraded around the old walled city of Manila on Dec. 1 ahead of the observance of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on Dec… Read More
2019-12-02 05:56
It was on one bright mundane morning, at the break of dawn, that I witnessed an oft-forgotten miracle. As in all of my other regular workdays in which I found myself stuck in heavy traffic… Read More
2019-12-02 05:05
Pope Francis called on Catholics to choose charity and prayer over consumerism this Advent, during his first Mass of the new liturgical year.
“Resist the dazzling lights of consumpt… Read More
2019-12-02 04:45
China has introduced new regulations requiring people to have their faces scanned when registering new mobile phone services.
The regulation, which aims to verify the identiti… Read More
2019-12-02 03:25
There’s pineapples, lemons, oranges and big banana trees. In the heart of the garden lies an empty pond, that once was used to breed fish. This is the expansive and well-organized frui… Read More
2019-11-29 16:18
Usulan kenaikan biaya akomodasi di Universitas Jawaharlal Nehru (JNU) di New Delhi membuat banyak siswa yang miskin, termasuk umat Katolik, mengkhawatirkan masa depan mereka.
Jika rencana… Read More
2019-11-29 15:00
Bocoran dokumen merinci untuk pertama kalinya pencucian otak yang dilakukan secara sistematis oleh Tiongkok terhadap ratusan ribu Muslim dalam jaringan kamp-kamp penjara dengan keamanan ting… Read More
2019-11-29 10:40
Leaked documents detail for the first time China’s systematic brainwashing of hundreds of thousands of Muslims in a network of high-security prison camps.
The Chinese government has… Read More
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