CHINA - Liu Yunxiao may have visited more Chinese churches than anyone, and there’s little doubt no one has seen more of them in his home province of Shaanxi. A stocky man with silvery hair, 65-year-old Liu has spent the past 30 years documenting Catholicism in this central province, often in mind-numbing detail...

INDIA - The congress titled, "Saint Teresa speaks to Asia" took place from November 28 to December 1 in Bangalore, India. It was part of the preparatory events for the V Centenary of the Birth of Saint Teresa. Approximately 500 participants attended the event. The objective of the gathering was to open a pathway in Asia...

SINGAPORE - “It has been many years but I remain grateful till this day to my teachers and the La Salle Brothers who taught us to be the best that we can be, to lead useful lives and to contribute to society.” President Tony Tan made this remark in a speech to about 300 students and educators from various schools...

DAMASCUS - "We are determined to remain in this blessed land even at the cost of martyrdom and martyrdom of blood. This has already happened to some of our faithful, such as the three men from Maalula, Michael Taalab, Antonios Taalab and Sarkis Zakhem. They are true martyrs killed for refusing to renounce their faith...

MONROVIA - A "new generation of churches " that claim to be able to heal or perform miracles is having a damaging effect on Liberia’s progress in fighting HIV/AIDS. This was stated by the Health Ministry official David Logan, according to whom the increase of new generation churches that link their preaching to prevailing...

REFLECTION - Pope Francis has published his first and very prolix papal teaching document entitled Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of Evangelization). With a tone of delightful self-mocking he observes, "I am aware that nowadays documents do not arouse the same interest as in the past and that they are quickly forgotten."

CAIRO - The Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC) was founded after the Second World War as a forum for Christians to try and bring the different branches of Christianity closer together after centuries of division. Since that time Anglicans, Lutherans, Orthodox and Evangelical Christians, all with their different histories...

HEALTH - Caritas Internationalis President Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga says the international organization of Catholic aid and development agencies continues its journey in faith and service to those suffering from HIV AIDS. In a message ahead of World AIDS Day observed on Sunday December 1, Cardinal Maradiaga...