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JAKARTA FREES FORMER CHRISTIAN GOVERNOR CONVICTED OF BLASPHEMY

Former governor of Jakarta, Chinese ethnic Christian Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, is free again after serving almost two years for blasphemy in the national police prison at Kelapa Dua, Depok regency (West Java) Waiting for him outside the prison walls this morning was his eldest son Nicholas Sean, while supporters and sympathizers welcomed the progressive […]

A DOMINICAN PREACHES IN THE MOSQUE, RECALLING THE GREAT IMAM PROMOTER OF PEACE

Maulana Muhammad Abdul Qadir Azad, who served the faithful as Grand Imam in the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore for about 30 years and died in January 2003, was considered “a great promoter of interreligious peace and harmony and above all of dialogue between Christians and Muslims. He was a great religious leader and a lover of […]

ONE IN THREE ASAIN CHRISTIANS FACES PERSECUTION: REPORT

One in three Christians in Asia faces high levels of persecution after a “shocking increase” of religious-based threats and violence across the world, particularly in China and sub-Saharan Africa, a global advocacy group said. Around half of China’s 100 million Christians encounters persecution, “the worst it’s been in more than a decade,” following “new laws […]

ASIA BIBI BLASPHEMY ACQUITTAL UPHELD BY PAKISTAN COURT

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on January 29 upheld the acquittal of a Christian woman who spent years on death row after being convicted of blasphemy. The apex court also dismissed a petition filed by Islamists who have called for her execution. “On merit, this petition is dismissed,” Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa said in court, saying […]

ABUSE: CARD. PAROLIN, “HOLY FATHER TOOK CONCRETE MEASURES TO PREVENT IT”

“The phenomenon of abuse cannot but cause bitterness and pain. It calls the entire Church to a profound reflection in order to ensure that this scourge is eradicated. And should new cases arise, no one must neglect the primary duty to protect the victims.” The Vatican Secretary of State, Card. Pietro Parolin, said this in […]

BECOME JESUS’S DISCIPLES, NOT DEVOTEES: JUSTICE JOSEPH

Religious persons in the Catholic Church should first become disciples of Jesus before trying to make others His followers, says former Supreme Court judge Justice Kurian Joseph. “Becoming a disciple of Jesus is a difficult task whereas becoming a devotee is easy. Our call as religious is to become disciples and make people disciples of […]

EVIL AGAINST CHILDREN INTOLERABLE: BISHOP RODRIGUES

Faced with the evil done to children, “no one can remain silent,” says Bishop John Rodrigues, rector of the Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Bandra (Mumbai). The prelate was addressing the Mass on December 28 for the feast day of the Holy Innocents, which commemorates the massacre of children ordered by Herod, king of Judea, […]

“THE CONSTITUTION WAS BEING SYSTEMATICALLY DESTROYED”: FR CEDRIC PRAKASH

Father Cedric Prakash of the Jesuit Gujarat Province has just returned from the Middle East after a three-year stint with the Jesuit Refugee Service there. On his religious vocation he says: “That is a long story: to cut it short – it was a CALL – and I said “YES” to it – and I […]