While the world know about the crisis between mainland China and its “breakaway province” of Taiwan, within Taiwan itself a small Catholic community is struggling with its own challenges.
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Pew: In US and other countries, Catholicism loses more members than it gains
A new analysis from Pew Research Center has found that Catholicism has lost more members than it has gained in most of the 24 countries surveyed, while Protestantism has seen net gains in several nations, especially Latin America.
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Pope Leo sends greetings for the Lunar New Year
Pope Leo XIV prayed that the Lunar Year celebrations may “strengthen family ties” and “bring peace to homes and society.”
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Catholic democracy activist Jimmy Lai receives a ‘death sentence’ in Hong Kong
Jimmy Lai, at 78, faces what amounts to a death sentence because of his stubborn insistence on freedom of expression in Hong Kong. Political leaders and human rights activists around the world quickly condemned the 20-year sentence handed down by a Hong Kong court on Feb. 9.
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In ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour,’ memory is a wound that will not heal.
In ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour,’ memory is a wound that will not heal.
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Meet the 88-year-old scooter-riding catechist from Singapore who has brought 2,000 people into church
For the past 34 years, Andrew Goh has ridden his scooter around Singapore to bring the Catholic faith to the elderly and housebound.
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Pedro Arrupe, Hiroshima and the Sacred Heart
Father Arrupe’s intense desire for union with the heart of Christ gave him strength as he ministered to victims of the Hiroshima attack.
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Pope Leo XIV: Western Christians must reject ‘fake news’ and help the suffering Eastern churches
Pope Leo XIV denounced the “violent conflict [that] seems to be raging in the Christian East with a diabolical intensity previously unknown” and said the Christians of the West must do more to help the Christians of the East, especially those suffering in Ukraine, Gaza and other places in the Middle East.
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Cardinal Gracias: Pope Leo ‘is the ideal man to lead the church at this time’
In this interview, Cardinal Gracias speaks about the election of Leo XIV, his membership in Pope Francis’ council of cardinal advisors and why he considers Francis a saint.
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Cardinal Chow on the conclave: We voted for a pastor for the world
Cardinal Stephen Chow, 65, the bishop of Hong Kong, was the only Chinese cardinal to vote in the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV.