Fr Mahendra Gunatilleke talks about the Easter Sunday attacks, which "were a devastating blow”. As a result, people began to wonder about God’s existence. Trust between communities must be rebuilt and Muslims must be integrated.
Catholics number 750,000 Catholics, or just over 1 per cent of the Myanmar population. The social and humanitarian arm of the Church was set up in 2001 and can count on 725 volunteers involved in education, emergencies, health, social protection and livelihood. Crises in the states of Kachin and Rakhine require different approaches.
The exhibition presents works of secular, Buddhist and Catholic art as a “concrete gesture with a high symbolic value". For Vatican Museums director Barbara Jatta, this is a form of “diplomacy of art" grafted onto "the centuries-long tradition of the Church”, which is “what the Holy Father expects of ‘his’ Museums!”
Payal Salman Tadvi, 26, was pursuing post-graduate studies in obstetrics and gynecology. Her harassers, three doctors, have been suspended. People should look upon each other as human beings, says CBCI’s Office for Dalits.
The green light with the signature of the three leaders of the Status Quo: the Custos of the Holy Land, the Armenian patriarch and the Greek Orthodox patriarch. Christian leaders express "great joy and satisfaction". The work in two phases of "restoration and rehabilitation" concerns the foundations of the tomb and the floor of the church.
"A sad Christian - Francis said at Mass celebrated this morning - is a sad Christian: he does not go". "Never this pagan sadness". In life there are difficult moments but in these moments “we feel that the Spirit helps us to move forward (...) and to overcome difficulties. Even martyrdom”.
