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A fund-raising bazaar took place at Raviravi church today. A large multi-ethnic crowd attended, and there were different cultural items presented.

On October 2017, I returned to Taiwan as a second term lay missionary.

Apart from my General Council work, I have found myself unofficial chaplain to foreign inmates in five Hong Kong prisons.

Catholic Church leaders have spoken out to condemn the brutal killing of a young priest, Father Mark Anthony Ventura, 37, from Gattaran town in the province of Cagayan on…

Before I become a lay missionary, I was a full-time volunteer at Jesuit Volunteer of the Philippines (JVP).

It all started about three months ago when catechist Timoci Matakiviwa turned up on our doorstep offering to compose a Centennial Meke for us.

A week-end retreat with the women
from the desolate city slum ??
delight in grass, and flowers and shrubs;
joy, to be free for two whole days

The Portuguese have become a part of Rhode Island society, but not at the price of entirely losing their religious heritage.

When I was growing up in Ireland we used to hear about the bogey man – who would snatch naughty children and spirit them away.

Church and police authorities and non-government organizations (NGOs) came together recently in the Vatican under the Santa Martha Group headed by Cardinal Vincent…

I have discovered
that a buttercup has five petals,
that several colors enliven a patch of moss
that grass comes in near-infinite variety

My main interfaith experiences in the Philippines were with Muslims; things in Myanmar are very different given the very large majority Buddhist population.