Inés San Martín Rome, April 15, 2019: It took 29 meetings, but the pope’s “C-9” council of cardinal advisers, which is now functionally more akin to a “C-6”, has a new constitution for the Vatican in the form of a draft presentable to all the bishops’ conferences around the world,Continue Reading
Vatican City, Apr 10, 2019: As Pope Francis’ council of cardinals wraps up the drafting of a new apostolic constitution, they have decided to take up the topic of management roles for women working in the Vatican. Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti told journalists April 10 that among proposed agenda itemsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Manila, April 11, 2019: Tools of communications may change, but the “true core of the message” remains the same, says Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Archbishop of Manila,. The head of the Philippines Church was speaking at a function on April 11 to celebrate the 50th anniversaryContinue Reading
United Nations, April 10, 2019: The United Nations has announced that it has started going partially paperless by stopping printing of press releases. “Starting today, the News and Media Division of the Department of Global Communications (DGC) will no longer print hard copies of press releases,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’sContinue Reading
By Makiko Inoue and Mike Ives Tokyo, April 8, 2019: Catholic bishops in Japan plan to conduct a nationwide survey on sexual abuse of children by members of the clergy, church officials said April 8. Archbishop Mitsuaki Takami of Nagasaki, the leader of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan, sharedContinue Reading
ASIAN bishops are set to meet in Manila this week to mark the 50th anniversary of Radio Veritas, the Catholic Church-run radio station instrumental to the 1986 “people power” revolt and efforts to fight communism in Asia through evangelization. The three-day commemoration of the golden anniversary of the twin entitiesContinue Reading
Hong Kong, April 4, 2019: Air pollution will shorten the life expectancy of children born today by an average of 20 months and will have the greatest impact in south Asia, according to a study. The State of Global Air report, published by the US-based Health Effects Institute and theContinue Reading
Vatican City, Apr 2, 2019: Pope Francis said on April 2 that the Catholic Church had to acknowledge a history of male domination and sexual abuse of women and children and repair its reputation among young people or risk becoming “a museum.” But, in a major document in which heContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Manado, April 2, 2019: Churches need to create space for their people to intervene in Asia’s social complexities on time, says general secretary of the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA). Observing that Christians in Asia live amid complex social situations that affect their lives, Reverend MathewsContinue Reading
Apr. 1, 2019: The Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC) and Internet Archive (IA) announced Mar. 30 that they are making a large corpus of Buddhist literature available via the Internet Archive. This collection represents the most complete record of the words of the Buddha available in any language, plus manyContinue Reading