KOTA KINABALU - Tawau lass Sister Magdalene Chong returns to serve as local superior of the Daughters of St Paul here for the third time. Sr Maggie - as she is fondly known as - was appointed to head the…
TELUPID - The youth of St Martin here organised a second night of praise concert at the parish hall on 27 July 2018. It was organised jointly with the Telupid Event Management after two years of the inaugural concert. Around…
MANILA - Catholic churches in Manila were opened to accommodate thousands of people displaced by widespread flooding in the Philippine capital caused by several days of heavy rain. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila ordered parishes to open churches and…
KENINGAU - Some 400 wardens of Katedral St Francis Xavier attended a parish-level recollection at St John Biah on 28 July 2018. The theme of the recollection was "Recognising others through Christ." In his homily at the opening Mass, Father…
VATICAN CITY - On August 6, the Feast of the Transfiguration, the Church marked the 25th anniversary of Pope St John Paul II’s landmark encyclical, Veritatis splendor. St John Paul himself explained the reason for the encyclical: Although the Church has “at…
SOOK – Holy Spirit Parish here hosted the priestly ordination ceremony for its second son on 11 Aug 2018. The first ordinand was Father Bonaventure Unting in 2001. Some 3000 faithful turned up for the ordination ceremony of Deacon David…
PENAMPANG - Members of the main organising team held a two-day meeting to launch the 5th Sabah Youth Day (SYD-5) on 5-6 Aug 2018 at the Bamboo House Riverside Kampung Notoruss here. The 13 participants represented the Kota Kinabalu Archdiocese…
BUENOS AIRES - In a victory for pro-life advocates in Argentina, the country’s Senate rejected a bill on 9 Aug 2018 to legalise voluntary abortion into the 14th week of pregnancy. Hours of heated debate and impassioned pleas ended with a…
KENINGAU - Some 100 people including members of the Institut Sekular Komuniti Betania (ISKB) gathered to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the diocesan secular institute on 27 July 2018 at the Keningau Diocesan Retreat House here. The anniversary Mass was…
VATICAN CITY - The Prefect for the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development, Cardinal Peter Turkson, has penned a Message for World Tourism Day, which takes place each year on September 27. In his message released on 4…