VATICAN CITY - As Christians around the world celebrate the birth of Jesus, the Pope has depicted suffering reflected “in the faces of little children,” citing war and other tensions in places including the Middle East, Africa and the Korean Peninsula.…
KOTA KINABALU - Over 3000 people turned up to celebrate Christmas with Archbishop John Wong at his open house on the afternoon of 25 Dec 2017 at the Sacred Heart Parish Centre here. The visitors including priests and religious came…
KOTA KINABALU - The Christmas Midnight Mass is one of two times in the year when overflowing crowds are seen in churches across the archdiocese. The Sacred Heart Cathedral here has two Masses on Christmas Eve in order to accommodate…
UNITED NATIONS - More than 120 countries defied President Donald Trump on Thursday [21 Dec 2017] and voted in favour of a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for the United States to drop its recent recognition of Jerusalem as…
Eric Rohmer, a devout Catholic, saw film as a '20th-century cathedral'. He made a sublime Christmas movie, too. While thrilling art-house audiences with his urbane, witty films, Éric Rohmer attended Mass each Sunday at the Church of St Medard, subscribed…
PENAMPANG - Around 90 pastoral workers of Kota Kinabalu Archdiocese attended the annual pre-Christmas gathering at the Catholic Archdiocesan Centre (CAC) here on 23 Dec 2017. The workers came from the CAC, Sacred Heart Cathedral Parish Office Karamunsing, Church of…
In his Christmas message published in Catholic Sabah (17.12.2017), Keningau prelate Bishop Cornelius Piong says that Christmas is God's love expression to humanity. Below is the full text: The mood of Christmas celebration is always felt at the end of…
VATICAN CITY - In a front-page article in L’Osservatore Romano, the priest who serves as a Vatican representative on an ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) committee discussed net neutrality, the Catholic World News posted on its news portal on 20…
Pope Francis inadvertently initiated one of the internet kerfuffles he has become famous for earlier this week. During a television interview, he suggested that the Italian church consider tinkering with its translation of the Our Father. The interweb quickly heated up…
MILAN – AsiaNews founder, Father Piero Gheddo, 89, died on 20 Dec 2017 at the Ambrosiana Nursing Home, Cesano Boscone, near here. Born in 1929 in Tronzano Vercellese Italy, he entered the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) in 1945…