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Xiangtan is a prefecture-level city in Hunan province, China. The hometowns of several founding leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, including Chairman Mao Zedong, President Liu Shaoqi, and Marshal Peng Dehuai, are in the Xiangtan prefecture, as well...
In a land area of approximately 17,224 square kilometers, the diocesan territory covers the prefecture-level cities of Hohhot and its administrative area that includes 4 districts (Huimin, Xincheng, Yuquan and Saihan), 4 counties (Togtoh, Wuchuan, Horinger and Qingshuihe) and the county-level Tumed...
Marian Basilica lives the memory of India’s sole Roman Catholic ruler

Marian Basilica lives the memory of India’s sole Roman Catholic ruler

Indian basilica soaked in the blood of St. Thomas, the Apostle

Indian basilica soaked in the blood of St. Thomas, the Apostle

Indian Church relishes miracles of Saint Thomas, the Apostle

Indian Church relishes miracles of Saint Thomas, the Apostle

Indian cathedral remembers Jesuit mission among tribals in eastern India

Indian cathedral remembers Jesuit mission among tribals in eastern India

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St. Gonsalo Garcia: First Indian missionary who embraced martyrdom in Japan

Gonsalo Garcia was born on Feb. 5, 1556, to a Portuguese father and Indian mother of Konkani descent, at Agashi village at Bassein (now Vasai), near Mumbai city in western India. His father was a soldier stationed at Fort Bassein, a Portuguese fort. Gonsalo received his education under the Jesuits. While assisting at the Church of the Holy of Jesus at Bassein, he developed a friendship with Jesuit Father Sebastian Gonsalves, who eventually became his lifelong mentor and guide.

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St. Pedro Calungsod, Filipino lay martyr and patron of catechists

This Filipino layman martyr saint could be rightly called the patron of infant baptism because it was after the baptism of an infant through his instrumentality that on 2nd April 1672 Pedro was martyred along with his companion missionary Fr. Diego San Vitores who baptised the infant. This infant was of a mother who got converted to Catholicism.

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St. Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino layman who became a martyr in Japan

Lorenzo Ruiz, also called Saint Lorenzo of Manila, is a Filipino saint venerated in the Catholic Church. A Chinese-Filipino, he became his country's protomartyr after his execution in Japan by the Tokugawa Shogunate during its persecution of Japanese Christians in the 17th century.

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Plea seeking Hindu women’s rights raises storm in Bangladesh
Plea seeking Hindu women’s rights raises storm in Bangladesh

A section of minority Hindus call it an attempt ‘to break our families and get us out of this country’

Japan’s making waves in the Indian Ocean region
Japan’s making waves in the Indian Ocean region

It is keen on establishing a new identity globally through regional security, strategy and policy changes

Cambodian farmers’ coalition members freed ahead of polls
Cambodian farmers’ coalition members freed ahead of polls

Three members of the Coalition of Cambodian Farmers Community were accused of plotting a 'peasant revolution'

Eviction order for dam project irks Tibetans in China
Eviction order for dam project irks Tibetans in China

The confiscation of farmlands will render people without any means of livelihood, villagers say

Chinese Muslims clash with police to defend mosque
Chinese Muslims clash with police to defend mosque

Authorities were seeking to remove the dome and minarets of a 13th-century Arabic-style mosque in Yunnan province

Renewing and realizing the social doctrine of the Church
Renewing and realizing the social doctrine of the Church

St Gregory of Nyssa stated that it is necessary to 'go from beginning to beginning, through beginnings that have no end'

China’s role in the reconciliation of Iran and Saudi Arabia
China’s role in the reconciliation of Iran and Saudi Arabia

Diplomatic relations were disrupted in 2016 after Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Tehran was attacked

Don Lorenzo Milani, priest and prior of Barbiana
Don Lorenzo Milani, priest and prior of Barbiana

May 27, 2023, marks 100 years since the birth of Don Lorenzo Milani

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