The training facility for seminarians has 82 young people engaged in discernment. The Holy Cross congregation arrived in Bangladesh in 1953 before independence. The first missionaries came from Europe, the United States and Canada.
Ramy Kamel, one of the founders of the Maspero Youth Union, was arrested for posting footage showing anti-Christian violence and brutality in southern Egypt, where sectarian Muslims are seizing goods and land owned by Christians. For Egyptian activist, the government is fighting its adversaries and activists, not terrorists.
Whether Al-Zarqawi, bin Laden or the late founder of the Islamic State group, the killing of jihadi leaders will not end the Islamist threat. This ideology does not depend on any living breathing person. It is something that goes back a long way; it is an updated version of a story that began with the birth of the Muslim empire and its conquests.
The "China Cables", secret documents of the Communist Party that emerged thanks to the efforts of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, describe in detail life in the detention camps where 1.8 million Chinese Muslims are imprisoned. The emphasis on the education of the youngest, who must be isolated from the world and re-educated. The denied requests of the international community to be able to visit these areas that are "vocational institutes" for Beijing.
A manual published on the destructive phenomena of sects, from advertising, to money fraud, even to terrorism. Alliance between the Ministry of Education and the Moscow Patriarchate. Magic and occultism, as well as suicide games, extreme diets, medicinal dissent all targeted. But also Jehovah's Witnesses, Baptist Evangelicals, Pentecostals.
The Delhi-based International Human Rights Council picked the Archbishop of Guwahati as its 2019 Ambassador for Peace. Surprised by the news, the prelate dedicates the recognition to his colleagues with whom he has worked for years for dialogue and harmony in India and Asia.