No to ID cards for Muslims (Saturday, 26 August 2017 )
MANILA (UCAN): Human rights and religious groups have voiced opposition to a proposal from the Philippine National Police to issue identification cards to Muslims in The Philippines as a measure to root out extremists in the southern region of Mindanao. |
Around the Traps (Saturday, 26 August 2017 )
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Vatican press runs hot on the offensive (Saturday, 26 August 2017 )
ROME (SE): Hot on the heels of an article appearing in the Vatican magazine, Civilta Cattolica, attacking right wing Catholics in the United States of America (US) for what it called running an ecumenism of hate in cooperation with fundamentalist evangelical groups, a second article has appeared in a different Vatican publication, L’Osservatore Romano, claiming the main obstacle to the reforms Pope Francis wants to see in the Church is the clergy. |
Blurring the trail to the drug lords (Saturday, 26 August 2017 )
JAKARTA (UCAN): Amnesty International claims that the number of suspected drug traffickers killed by authorities in Indonesia has increased significantly since last year as a result of a shoot-on-sight policy. |
Some trust in atheists but most don’t (Saturday, 26 August 2017 )
LEXINGTON (SE): The results of a study indicate that people are far more suspicious of atheists than they are of people who have an adherence to one of the major religions of the world. |
Top Vatican brass in Moscow (Saturday, 26 August 2017 )
MOSCOW (SE): News media in Russia reported early in August that the Vatican secretary of state, Pietro Cardinal Parolin, was set to fly to Moscow on August 20 for a five-day visit. Although the dates of the visit had not been confirmed by the Vatican, it did say that he would make the visit before the end of August. |
Seeking a fuller picture of China’s missionary history (Saturday, 26 August 2017 )
HONG KONG (UCAN): An academic conference on the missionary history of the Paris Foreign Mission Society was described as filling a few gaps in the modern understanding of the development of the Catholic Church over the centuries in China. |
Summer camps without bombs (Saturday, 26 August 2017 )
ALEPPO (SE): The summer months in northern Iraq this year saw a special treat for some 860 young people who took up the offer to take part in two months of activities held by the Church in Aleppo. |
A vocation camp Salesian style (Saturday, 26 August 2017 )
On August 3, I joined the Salesian vocation director, Father Carlos Cheung Sam-yiu, together with two young Salesians and two other aspirants on the Salesian Hong Kong-Macau Joint Vocation Camp. |
History teaches but who learns? (Saturday, 26 August 2017 )
DAVAO (UCAN): “If rationality still matters in this beleaguered Republic of The Philippines, how have we, as a people, shifted once more to supporting a rising authoritarianism?” Brother Karl Gaspar, a veteran of the resistance to the bloody regime orchestrated by former president, Ferdinand Marcos, asks. |
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