Lorenzo Fazzini

Martyrs in Asia, the broken lives of Christ's witnesses

Interview with Fr Enzo Corba, PIME missioner. "We and NGOs provide the same social services, but with them it all ends with giving a diploma or healing the sick. Instead, with us people seek something more: a personal experience with God".

With the collapse of the "demographic myth", policies like those being put forward by Manila encouraging unnatural birth control are unacceptable.

The priest who saw the attack against the Bishop's Palace says that the building "has collapsed except for one wall and hanging on that wall is a photo of the Pope."

Scientists dream of 'headless humans' from whom they can remove tissues to treat the sick. As the UN gets ready to vote on human cloning, Prof Augusto Pessina, microbiologist at the Università di Milano, spoke to AsiaNews about the false myths of 'therapeutic' cloning and the economic interests that are behind the humanitarian emphasis of science. The Church has a duty to speak out against the claims of scientific research.

Monsignor Sako, aligned with the Pope: "Elections in January, the beginning of a new Iraq." Europe so far absent: it's time to get involved in the Middle East.

A missioner describes how he announces the Eucharist in a Buddhist world.

Request for euthanasia is an "isolated case" in a country of 212 million people.

Details about the arrest point to a plot by Islamic police against the Christian man who has been in jail for the last six months on charges of "evangelisation".

Msgr Sleiman sympathizes with Italians for the abductions of 2 volunteer workers, but asks Italy to commit itself fully against terrorism, for Iraq's sake and for Europe's

Catholic activist John Dayal blames government impotence and western indifference to religious freedom.

"Christian migrants as prophets of communion and solidarity." An interview with Cardinal Stephen Fumio Hamao, President of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant People.