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05/18/2013 VATICAN
Pope: Rumors are destructive in the Church, misinformation, libel and slander and "all three are sins"
Celebrating the Mass this morning, Francis remembers when Jesus asked Peter, " What is it to you". Gossip is fun at first but then it ruins you, ruins your soul. It’s the spirit of Cain: killing a brother, with wagging tongues; killing a brother. "
Vatican City (AsiaNews) - "How much gossip there is in the Church! How we Christians gossip!" A behavior that can take on three aspects: disinformation, defamation and slander and "all three are sins." Again today, at Mass celebrated in St....

05/17/2013 VATICAN
The life of the Church and of the Churches is the mission, pope says
In meeting the national directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Francis focuses on the duty to bring the Gospel to the world, which includes "educating every Christian, from childhood, to have a genuinely universal and missionary spirit," and giving "special attention to the young Churches, which often operate in a climate of difficulty, discrimination, and persecution, so that they might be sustained and assisted in witnessing the Gospel in word and in deed."
05/17/2013 INDONESIA
Indonesian President named for religious freedom prize. Anger and indignation of minorities
by Mathias Hariyadi
In late May in New York Yudhoyono will receive the World Statesman Award from the Appeal of Conscience Foundation (ACF). The recognition for the protection of minority rights and freedom of worship. Indonesian Jesuit: he has never done anything to protect the rights in a country at risk of Islamization.
05/16/2013 VATICAN
Pope: Church does not need lukewarm, "backseat" Christians
In this morning's Mass, Francis spoke about Saint Paul's apostolic zeal. "Paul is a nuisance. He is a man who, with his preaching, his work, his attitude irritates others, because he bears witness to Jesus Christ". We can ask the Holy Spirit "to give us all this apostolic fervour to be nuisance in the Church's comfort zones and the grace to reach the outer edges of existence."
05/16/2013 VATICAN
Pope: Money must serve and not rule
Addressing a group of ambassadors, Francis criticizes the role that economics and finance have on people and society today, reducing humanity to being consumers and consumer goods. The rejection of God and ethics "considered counterproductive as too human, because it relativizes money and power, as a threat, because it rejects the manipulation and submission of the person."

05/15/2013 VATICAN
Pope: Pray for priests and bishops so they do not yield to temptation of money and careerism
During Mass celebrated this morning, Francis comments on the phrase of St. Paul that exhorts the "elders" of the Church of Ephesus to be vigilant of themselves and their flock, shepherds attentive to the "ravenous wolves." "When a priest, a bishop goes after money, the people do not love him and that's a sign. But he ends up badly." "And when a bishop, a priest travels the road of vanity, enters into the spirit of careerism - which hurts the Church so much – he ends up being ridiculous, he boasts, he likes to be seen, all powerful ... And the people did not love that. "
05/15/2013 VATICAN
Pope: you cannot be a “part-time” Christian, "at certain moments, circumstances, choices"
At the general audience Francis talks about the truth that the Holy Spirit helps us to get know and that "always and totally involves our daily lives." In an era marked by relativism, Jesus is the answer to the question: is there "the" truth? "The truth does not grab you like an object, the truth is encountered. It is not a possession, it is an encounter with a Person." In his greetings in Italian he announces his desire to visit, Cagliari, Sardinia, "probably in September”, and in particular the shrine of Our Lady of Bonaria, connected to the founding of Buenos Aires.
05/15/2013 INDONESIA
Papua, gold and copper mine collapses: 4 dead, dozens missing
Rescue operations are hampered by an area subject to landslides and rock falls. A dozen people extracted so far, but their conditions unknown. Rescue operation carried out by managers of U.S. company that owns the quarry. No independent observers are in the area.
05/14/2013 VATICAN
Pope: to follow Jesus, live life as a gift to give to others and not a treasure to keep for yourself
During Mass this morning, Francis highlights contrasting attitudes of Jesus and Judas, who "never really understood what gift meant." "He who gives his life for love is never alone", who "loses" his life will find life in its fullness, he who keeps it for himself, loses in the end.
05/14/2013 INDONESIA
After six months, Jakarta commuter rail drops women-only trains
The service was introduced to stop sexual violence and harassment on trains. However, it was only used during peak hours and ignored the rest of the day. Because of overcrowding, the rail company has had to pull the plug on the service to increase capacity.
05/13/2013 VATICAN
Growth in number of Catholics worldwide, number of priests and seminarians also increase
The data from the Statistical Yearbook of the Church. The faithful of Rome have passed, from 1196 in 2010 to 1214 million in 2011, up 1.5%. Asia remains a religiously vibrant continent: number of faithful and priests rise, as do the number of professed religious who are not priests, seminarians, and in contrast to the world's data, the number of nuns.
05/13/2013 VATICAN
Pope: the Holy Spirit, the "unknown of our faith," is "God reminding us" of our salvation
During the Mass celebrated this morning, Francis reflects on the remarks of a group of Christians from Ephesus: "we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit." Even today, "many Christians do not know who the Holy Spirit is, what the Holy Spirit is." The Spirit is "God active in us," a "God who helps us remember" who "awakens our memory." Jesus himself says to the Apostles before Pentecost: the Spirit that God will send in my name, "will remind you of everything I have said."
05/12/2013 VATICAN
Pope: Fidelity to Christ even unto martyrdom and in mission, as witness of charity
During Mass in St Peter's Square, Francis canonises the 800 martyrs of Otranto slaughtered by the Turks in 1480; Sister María Laura Montoya Upegui, the first Colombian saint, teacher and evangeliser of the poor and the Indians; Sister María Guadalupe García Zavala, a Mexican apostle of the poor and the sick. Martyrdom and mission are born from love of God and express themselves in the witness of charity. "[L]let us ask God to sustain those many Christians who, at this time in many parts of the world, continue to endure violence, and give them the courage of fidelity to respond to evil with goodness." Speaking ad-lib, the pope also said, "Individualism eats away at the Christian community and our hearts . . . . How much damage does the easy life and the embourgeoisement of the heart do?" Serving the sick and the abandoned means "touching Christ's flesh." The "sick, the poor, the dying are the flesh of Christ." The pope pleads on behalf of life in the womb and the rights of embryos.
05/10/2013 VATICAN - EGYPT
Pope: an "ecumenism of suffering" shared by Coptic Orthodox and Catholics in Egypt
Francis meets Tawadros II, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt, welcoming the establishment of the National Council of Christian Churches "it is an important symbol of the will of all believers in Christ in everyday life to develop more and more fraternal relations and to place themselves in service of the entire Egyptian society of which they are an integral part. "
05/10/2013 INDONESIA
Java: seven dead in anti-terrorism raids. Extremists planning horrific attacks
by Mathias Hariyadi
The suspects planned to target the most important commercial center in Southeast Asia. The shout out lasted several hours, before a final raid. Guns and heavy weapons found inside the homes. To finance their struggle, the Islamists had carried out several robberies in the last year netting millions.

Altri articoli
05/09/2013 INDONESIA
Jakarta, civil society in uproar over 34 "slave" workers by Mathias Hariyadi
05/08/2013 INDONESIA - GREAT BRITAIN
Tension between Jakarta and London over Papua independence movement by Mathias Hariyadi
05/06/2013 INDONESIA
West Java: hundreds of extremists attack Ahmadi homes and a mosque by Mathias Hariyadi
05/05/2013 VATICAN
Pope to Confraternities: Be missionaries of God’s love and tenderness towards 'little ones'
05/05/2013 VATICAN
Pope: Mary, help us to resist the temptation of the "ephemeral" to make definitive choices
05/04/2013 INDONESIA
Jakarta, Indonesian Christians against school reform by Mathias Hariyadi
05/03/2013 VATICAN - LEBANON
Pope, Sleiman discuss Syria conflict, intra-Lebanese dialogue and renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
05/03/2013 VATICAN
Church and all Christians must have courage to pass on the faith, says Pope
05/03/2013 ASIA - PIME
PIME mission, in the footsteps of Benedict XVI and Pope Francis by Bernardo Cervellera
05/03/2013 INDONESIA - MYANMAR
Islamists preparing attack on Myanmar Embassy in Jakarta by Mathias Hariyadi
05/02/2013 VATICAN
Pope: the Church that says "yes" to Christ’s love must let the Spirit work, or is divided
05/02/2013 INDONESIA
Outsourcing and minimum wage: the struggle for the rights of Indonesian workers by Mathias Hariyadi
05/01/2013 VATICAN
Pope against "slave labour", for solidarity, in the month of May
04/29/2013 INDONESIA
Borneo: bishop, priests and laity united against corruption and Church's "internal problems" by Mathias Hariyadi
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VATICAN
Growth in number of Catholics worldwide, number of priests and seminarians also increaseThe data from the Statistical Yearbook of the Church. The faithful of Rome have passed, from 1196 in 2010 to 1214 million in 2011, up 1.5%. Asia remains a religiously vibrant continent: number of faithful and priests rise, as do the number of professed religious who are not priests, seminarians, and in contrast to the world's data, the number of nuns.
ASIA - PIME
PIME mission, in the footsteps of Benedict XVI and Pope Francis
by Bernardo CervelleraThe PIME Annual General Meeting will discuss the mission ad gentes and "new evangelization"; missionary revival for the older Churches (Italy, USA, Latin America), and the communications media. But above all, the awakening of faith, according to the teaching of Benedict XVI and Pope Francis’ call to "go out to the geographical and existential outskirts".
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05/13/2013 VATICAN
Growth in number of Catholics worldwide, number of priests and seminarians also increase
05/15/2013 VATICAN
Pope: you cannot be a “part-time” Christian, "at certain moments, circumstances, choices"
05/11/2013 EGYPT
As more people are arrested for blasphemy in Egypt, a young Christian teacher is jailed
05/13/2013 SAUDI ARABIA - LEBANON
Six years and 300 lashes for a Lebanese Christian for having converted a young Saudi
05/15/2013 VATICAN
Pope: Pray for priests and bishops so they do not yield to temptation of money and careerism
05/12/2013 VATICAN
Pope: Fidelity to Christ even unto martyrdom and in mission, as witness of charity
05/14/2013 NEPAL
Nepal Medical Association against abortion and the culture of death
by Kalpit Parajuli
05/13/2013 IRAN
As Iran's presidential race starts, candidates need to be male, Shia, pious and above all pro-regime
05/11/2013 VATICAN
Pope: True prayer is that which is done in the name of Jesus, the one that brings us out of ourselves and opens us to the Father and to the neediest brothers and sisters
05/15/2013 RUSSIA - CHINA
For the first time in more than 50 years, Mass celebrated at Shanghai's Orthodox cathedral

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