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Energy, creativity and synodality with the next generation - Thai youth hack for hope

SPOTLIGHT: Climb Lower

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Trekking through treacherous mountain paths to bring hope where none existed, their footsteps changed lives
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Mission school turns peace observance into lessons on creation and reconciliation

Students connect peace, environmental care and awareness through a school tradition shaped by prayer, reflection and community action

Philippine tribe in limbo over US-led tech hub

The Aetas remain uncertain if the government would help them build new homes or provide land to cultivate for income if they are moved

Korean priest’s journey reflects Church’s growing missionary role

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A Korean missionary priest reflects on cross-cultural ministry and Church shaped by decades of receiving and sending missionaries

Thai missionary in Taiwan sees God’s hand from childhood prayers in Teochew to parish in Hsinchu

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Fr. Bosco Phulsap Leelanurak reflects as Thai Missionary Society marks 375 days until 10th anniversary of its Taiwan mission

When personal branding becomes question of faith

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A Jakarta Catholic professionals’ retreat reframed personal branding through faith, authenticity, lifelong learning, fellowship and care for creation

Indigenous Lahu Catholics build new chapel as community begins ‘living Church’ mission in northern Thailand

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A new mountain chapel becomes a call for Catholics to carry faith beyond worship into service of neighbors

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Our Lady weeps for digital age

John Singarayar SVD -
In an age tempted to solve suffering out of existence rather than accompany it, she remains a strange, stubborn, necessary witness

AI’s phenomenal growth and child exploitation

Father Shay Cullen -
AI-enabled online child abuse is an international crime that is expanding rapidly beyond the control of government

CBCP head’s homily at Asian Catholic Digital Missionary Assembly opening Mass

CBCP News -
Homily delivered by CBCP President Archbishop Gilbert Garcera at the opening Mass of the Asian Catholic Digital Missionary Assembly at Radio Veritas Asia

A girl child at the heart of faith

John Singarayar SVD -
The deepest tribute to Mary may not be found only in the words we say about her. It may be found in the way we treat the girls entrusted to our care

Pilar sisters: Chosen, anchored in Christ and sent to serve

Bro. Malvino Alfonso, OCD, India -
May the years ahead find every Pilar Sister courageously living the words of her anthem: chosen by Christ, anchored in Christ, sent in His name

He built with faith when nothing remained

John Singarayar SVD -
Janssen did not begin with abundance. He began with a dream, a deep conviction, and an extraordinary trust in Divine Providence

Faith must die before it can truly live

John Singarayar SVD -
We become spiritual when religion stops functioning as a shield against the very change it was meant to produce

When swords become plowshares: The ecology of peace

John Singarayar SVD -
Peace must become a form of ecology because peace names the restored relationship on which the flourishing of people and the planet depends

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POPE LEO XIV >>

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