As Chinese, including Catholics, get ready to celebrate the Year of the Rat, Annie Lam, head of the China office for the Asian church news agency UCA News, talks about the impact the country’s heavy snowstorms have had on the lunar new year.
CNS photo editor Nancy Wiechec and I were in Beijing last March for the [...]
That’s the headline on a column this week in UCA News, the Asian church news service which has been our longtime partner and friend. And while some may assume the column is for Catholic Press Month (which we celebrate in February here in the States), it’s actually an insightful, albeit coincidental, look at how contrasting styles [...]
For a first-person account of what it feels like to live under the threat of violence in Pakistan these days, check out this account by Kamran Chaudhry, Pakistan bureau chief for the Asian church news agency UCA News. Chaudry writes of a bomb explosion outside the high court, the death of former Prime Minister Benazir [...]
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Remember the buzz last month that Bibles were being banned at the Olympics in Beijing next summer?
Like many rumors, this one had an air of believability, especially to people who may not be current on the state of religion in China. As we said last month, Bibles freely circulate in China, despite that regime’s other controls [...]
The phone calls began this morning, first from a congressman’s office, and then another, and then from the U.S. State Department — all wanting to see what we had written about Bibles being banned from the Olympic Village in Beijing next summer.
And quicker than you can say Madalyn Murray O’Hair (for those of you old [...]
