The Vatican and Asian countries "pay too little attention to each other," according to Japan's ambassador to the Holy See. He believes both would benefit significantly from greater mutual engagement. Tokyo- and Cambridge-educated Kagefumi Ueno, who has represented his country to the Holy See since November 2006, recently shared his views ...

Christians and others in India have pinned great hopes on the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) that received a decisive mandate in the recently concluded general elections, says P.V. Thomas, a Catholic political commentator. As the destiny driver of over 1.2 billion people, the UPA's major task is to ensure national economic ...

Pope Benedict XVI has proclaimed a year for priests, calling them to interior renewal for the sake of a more forceful witness to the Gospel. In today's world, "the lives and activity of priests need to be distinguished by a forceful witness to the Gospel," he said in a letter to ...

Environmental crusader Ceciliany Permadi Suryanto, popularly known as Susann Suryanto, says her Catholic faith is crucial to her mission to spread the conservation message. The former lecturer at the Agriculture Faculty of the State-run University of Padjadjaran in Bandung says the local Church's pastoral guide on the environment has also ...

Father Michael Kelly, 56, executive director of UCA News since Jan. 1, 2009, and I arrived in Shanghai on the afternoon of March 12. The purpose of our trip was to visit Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian, who has been ill for some time. A victim of diabetes, the bishop has ...