The Xavierian nun talks about her missionary experience in Thailand. She heads a facility for seriously disabled children and their mothers set up in 2008 by Sister Maria Angela Bertelli. In Thailand, Sister Eudoxie notes, “a disability is considered a punishment caused by the parents’ faults or things the children did in previous lives.”
Two students refused to salute the national flag and sing the anthem, acts their faith deems idolatrous. For the local education agency, this “is against our obligation as Indonesians.” Meanwhile, police are investigating whether the fact “was part of a treason attempt or of not recognising the state”.
A survivor of the Hiroshima bomb expresses her gratitude to the pontiff for his visit, his words and his "smile".
Saji Cheriyan built a mosque named after Mary for poor Muslim workers. Dubai Sheikh praised him for offering last year’s Iftar. For his wife, “God has blessed us so much”.
Mothers in Chiyah and Ain el Remmaneh hold rally, shout “We are brothers and sisters of two religions, but with the same fate”. Confessional and partisan incidents are multiplying. Two Shias were burnt alive two days ago. Clashes are also reported in Beirut, Tyre, Baalbek, and Bikfaya. Like in a movie, Christian mothers wear veils, and Muslim mothers wear a cross.
The president of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee follows Xi Jinping's "sinicization" program. Fight against "extreme thoughts and heresies". Xinjiang Muslims and underground Protestant and Catholic churches especially targeted.
