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Card. Cornelius Sim: Ours is a ‘hidden’ Church, ‘not noisy’, small but alive

“A hidden Church,” “not noisy;” as small as “a Fiat 500,” but alive, which envisions its apostolate above all through schools and help for migrants. This is the image of the Church of Brunei, depicted by the new cardinal- designate Cornelius Sim speaking with AsiaNews via Zoom. Despite being among the smallest churches in Southeast […]

US religious liberty ambassador calls out China for using tech to suppress religion

The U.S. will be working against the use of technology to suppress religious minorities, the religious freedom ambassador announced. “The United States announced that we will pursue the topic of misuse of technology to oppress religious minorities,” said Sam Brownback, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Free-dom, on a Nov. 17 press call about the 2020 Ministerial […]

Britain urged to grant asylum to Pakistani girl

A U.K. based charity has called on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to grant asylum to a 14-year-old Christian girl who was abducted at gunpoint during the Covid-19 lockdown and forcibly married and converted to Islam by a Muslim married man. The Catholic charity Aid to Church in Need, which supports persecuted Christians around the […]

Lebanon’s is a model of coexistence

Lebanon’s “living together,” the historic vocation perceived and conferred by Pope John Paul II to Lebanon, and proposed by him – for our greatest honour and confusion – as “model for East and West,” is once again in the spotlight because of what is happening in a world where multi-religious societies are constantly growing, not […]

Multiple Beheadings in Mozambique: Is the World Indifferent?

On November 10, Al Jazeera posted a breathtaking headline: “ISIS-linked attackers behead 50 people in northern Mozambique.” The subhead was equally horrifying: “Witnesses say the assailants herded victims onto a football pitch in the village of Muatide where the killings were carried out.” In the midst of a pandemic, and in the throes of a highly contested […]

Catholic Hong Kong media mogul: ‘Freedom has a price’

In the words of Jimmy Lai, “freedom has a price.” That’s why the Chinese media mogul and activist is leaning on his Catholic faith for support as he faces potential prison time and continues the fight for freedom and democracy in Hong Kong. Speaking at the Acton Institute’s 30th anniversary virtual celebration, Lai, who runs […]

Spain’s bishops meet as religious freedom threatened in the country

With the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops holding a virtual fall assembly, the bishops of Spain are also holding their fall gathering. On the agenda for the Spanish bishops are Europe’s rising populist currents, and a bill in Spain that threatens religious education. In his opening speech, the conference president, Cardinal Juan Jose Omella of […]

New book sketches Pope’s dream for a post-COVID world

In that brief inter-mezzo over the summer between what turned out to be the first and second great surges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pope Francis held a series of appropriately socially distanced, “vir-tual” conversations with his premier English-language explicator about what he believes needs to be done for the world to be better than it […]