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Myanmar conflict: a state of unprecedented turmoil and suffering, Cardinal Bo says

In an interview with ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Archbishop of Yangon in Myanmar, said there is an “unprecedented state of turmoil and suffering, which seems to have no end” in the country resulting from a coup d’état at the beginning of 2021 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

Bangladesh Archbishop dismisses Christian state plot claims as ‘absurd’

“We, the Christians of Bangladesh, and their leaders – the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Bangladesh (CBCB) and the United Forum of Churches (UF-CB) are surprised and worried,” said a joint statement issued on Sunday. In today’s globalised and secularised world, the idea of a “Christian state” is absurd, said the statement signed by Abp Bejoy […]

Shen Bin’s read on Shanghai Council and Sinicization

This year marks one hundred years since the Council of Shanghai, the first Plenary Council of the Church in China. For the occasion, the Pontifical Urbaniana University in cooperation with the Agenzia Fides organised a conference, which was held today, to highlight the historic event a century ago, but also to look at today’s challenges, […]

The Gospel in Braille among government aid to the Church in Jakarta

Instruments and institutions at the service of the disabled. And permits for the construction of two new churches in the archdioceses of Jakarta and Pelambang. These are the new projects put in place in agreement with the local Church by the Indonesian Ministry of Religious Affairs, through its Directorate for Catholics (Bimas Katolik Kemenag), presented […]

Pope Francis opens new catechetical cycle on Holy Spirt’s role in salvation

Pope Francis on May 29 opened a new catechetical series during his weekly general audience, focusing on the theme of creation across history and the role of the Holy Spirit in the story of salvation. Titled “The Spirit and the Bride: The Holy Spirit Guides God’s People Toward Jesus Our Hope,” the new cycle will […]

Zimbabwe diocese rebuilds dam in response to climate change, water scarcity

Catholic diocese in Zimbabwe has rebuilt its own dam as part of faith-based responses to water challenges brought by climate change. The Diocese of Gweru in the country’s low rainfall Midlands province says the Holy Cross Dam, reconstructed at the beginning of this year, will go a long way toward reviving long abandoned agriculture projects. […]

Ghana: Fr Andrew Campbell’s healing mission of hope

On 27 May 2024, Pope Francis received in private audience the Irish SVD priest, Fr Andrew Campbell, a missionary who has lived and worked in Ghana for the last 53 years. Inspired by Saint Theresa of Kolkata, India, Fr Andrew Campbell has dedicated his life to working with the poor and marginalized of Ghana. He […]

Lebanon: Sr. Wakim on importance of highly-educated religious sisters

Sister Suzanne Wakim is one of many religious sisters who teach in Lebanon’s Catholic universities. She teaches philosophy in four universities, and her students include people of different faiths, among them Muslims. She is an expert in Pope Benedict XVI’s anthropological and philosophical thought, and her work on the topic is the first on the […]