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Lama Geshe Tsultrim Gyatso was travelling to a school where he had been invited to deliver a lecture. He is the vice president of his monastery’s Democratic Management Committee and vice chairman of a charitable foundation close to the government. He disappeared on 14 October.

Sentences range from 12 to 18 months for disrupting the social order. People had demonstrated in Tiananmen Square, demanding justice after losing homes and land. In 30 years, some 50 million farmers have been expropriated. Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao are powerless to do anything about it.

Benedict XVI canonized Msgr.Guido Maria Conforti, founder of the Xaverian Missionaries, Don Luigi Guanella, founder of the Servants of Charity and the Daughters of Our Lady of Providence, who serve the disabled; Bonifacia Rodriguez de Castro, founder of the Congregation of the Servants of St. Joseph. All three have testified "passionate love for God and neighbor." Before the Angelus, the Pope asks for prayers for the meeting in Assisi on 27 October.

During his three-day fast, hundreds of Church school students, teachers, principals, faithful, local people and politicians visited him and expressed support and concern. The prelate stresses Catholic education values in schools: life education, love, sanctity of marriage, respect for human dignity and morality. Card. Zen rejected again any charge over donation from tycoon Jimmy Lai.

The small girl hit by a truck, was not rescued by passers-by. Another vehicle broke her legs and left her in a coma. The video of her tragedy has sparked millions of comments on the immorality and materialism that dominate today's China.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed the restrictive measures in the area for "stability" after the nine Buddhist monks carry out self-immolation. Two religious from the monastery of Kirti, the epicenter of anti-Chinese protests, arrested.

New evangelization can be nourished by encounters and relationships with the Churches of Asia, among the most persecuted, but also among the most vibrant and growing. Many young people, visiting missions, have decided to dedicate their lives to evangelization. Missio ad gentes and new evangelization go hand in hand.

China’s need for steady energy supplies, foreign investments to cool an overheating economy and search for new markets for its exports lead Beijing to buy Russian assets.

The Communist government, which is atheist and opposed to religious freedom, talks about violations of ethics and conscience in the case of self-immolating Buddhist monks in Tibet. A local source instead blames the Chinese regime for destroying “the bases of our peaceful religion in Tibet”. This, i.e. suicidem “is what follows”.

Since 2005, the prelate received HK$ 20 million from tycoon Jimmy Lai. They were spent helping Chinese students abroad, the official and underground Church on the mainland, priests and nuns, dioceses in difficulty, prison inmates and the poor as well as the translation of Church literature and documents into Chinese. The controversy breaks out right at the onset of the cardinal’s hunger strike. Meanwhile, pro-mainland parties refuse to reveal their financial backers.

After three years of deadlock, Washington begins direct talks with Pyongyang on restarting six-nation talks on nuclear disarmament. In exchange, North Korea must stop attacking the South. China’s future premier, Li Keqiang, is expected to visit the Korean Peninsula.

For now there are 17 children paralyzed and one dead from the disease. The strain appears to originate from Pakistan. WHO's alert for the countries that have already defeated the disease. Pilgrimage to Mecca at risk.