Cardinal on trial secretly taped call with Pope Francis
Giovanni Angelo Becciu is on trial for fraud after being removed from office and stripped of privileges in September 2020
In a land area of 5,088.4 square kilometers, the Archdiocese of Cebu covers the whole civil province of Cebu. This province island lies at the heart of the Central Philippines called the Visayas region. In the history of Christian evangelization, it prides itself as the Cradle of Christianity in...
The eparchy consists of nine civil districts of Karnataka state with a vast geographical area of 51,950 square kilometers. The civil districts are South Kanara (Dakshina Kannada), Chamarajnagar, Chickmagalur, Hassan, Kodagu, Mandya, Mysore, Shimoga and Udupi. It has two ecclesiastical districts of...
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Vietnam’s Marian Church with a feminist charm
Domaine de Marie Church on the Mai Ahh hilltop at Da Lat is famed for its feminist charm and known as Pink Church and Cherry Church, because of its walls made of pink limestones and a surrounding with tall, pink grasses that grow in the area. The church in the Central Highlands of Vietnam is a complex of buildings comprising the Marian Church, two convents of Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, and a school and an orphanage forchildren run by the nuns.
Vietnamese Cathedral bears testimony to history and heritage
St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi is a French colonial-era landmark and one of the oldest Christian worship places in the Buddhist-majority nation. The cathedral is a replica of Notre Dame Cathedral of Paris that also passed through political and social trajectories in the city over the past centuries.
Vietnamese cathedral holds the statue of miraculous Virgin Mary
Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception, popularly known as Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica, is one of the tourist hotspots in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city and former capital of Vietnam. This 19th century cathedral is a historic landmark from French colonial-era, but it gained significant prominence for the four-meter-tall statue of Virgin Mary that miraculously wept in 2005.
Vietnamese cathedral offered sanctuary to slain president
St. Francis Xavier Church in the China town of former Vietnamese capital Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) lives the memory of Father Pierre D’Assou (Cha Tam in Vietnamese), a priest from China’s Macau Island who played a pivotal role in construction of the first church for local Chinese Catholics in 1900-1902. Today, the church is mostly known as Cha Tam Church in an honor to contributions of the missionary priest. Vietnamese priest and architect Father John Baptist Huynh Tinh Huong designed the church complex that accommodates the church building, large compound, a house of charity, houses for rent, a kindergarten, a community house, a school, and a meeting hall.
St. Gonsalo Garcia: First Indian missionary who embraced martyrdom in Japan
Gonsalo Garcia was born on Feb. 5, 1556, to a Portuguese father and Indian mother of Konkani descent, at Agashi village at Bassein (now Vasai), near Mumbai city in western India. His father was a soldier stationed at Fort Bassein, a Portuguese fort. Gonsalo received his education under the Jesuits. While assisting at the Church of the Holy of Jesus at Bassein, he developed a friendship with Jesuit Father Sebastian Gonsalves, who eventually became his lifelong mentor and guide.
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St. Pedro Calungsod, Filipino lay martyr and patron of catechists
This Filipino layman martyr saint could be rightly called the patron of infant baptism because it was after the baptism of an infant through his instrumentality that on 2nd April 1672 Pedro was martyred along with his companion missionary Fr. Diego San Vitores who baptised the infant. This infant was of a mother who got converted to Catholicism.
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St. Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino layman who became a martyr in Japan
Lorenzo Ruiz, also called Saint Lorenzo of Manila, is a Filipino saint venerated in the Catholic Church. A Chinese-Filipino, he became his country's protomartyr after his execution in Japan by the Tokugawa Shogunate during its persecution of Japanese Christians in the 17th century.
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China sentences Kris Wu to 13 years in prison for rape
The Chinese-Canadian ex-pop star's case was at the center of a sweeping government crackdown on celebrity culture
Vatican offers guidelines for faith-consistent investing
It makes no sense for a Catholic entity to benefit from the exploitation of people or environment, Cardinal PeterTurkson says
Pope admires courage, commitment of Ukrainians
Pope Francis in a letter assured the people of Ukraine that he prays for them constantly and that they are not alone
Church calls for dignified burial for Filipino prisoners
The largest prison in the Philippines has started disposing of 200 unclaimed bodies of prisoners
China jails critic for seeking justice, democratic reforms
Lu Huihuang has been held guilty of 'incitement to subvert state power' and sentenced to a four-and-a-half-year jail term
Deepening discord over Indian Church's liturgical dispute
The Kerala-based Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Church is divided as archdiocese threatens to snap ties with the Vatican
Tough road lies ahead for Malaysia's Anwar
Opposition leader has had long wait for power but Islamist party threatens to take country down a darker path
