UCANews Magazine 31 December 2010
THE Irish trio of clerical classical singers The Priests has teamed up with former hellion and punk rocker/Irish folk singer Shane MacGowan for a recording of The Little Drummer Boy.
POPE Benedict XVI hosted more than 350 poor people at a post-Christmas luncheon at the Vatican, an event that marked this year’s 100th anniversary of the birth of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
Indonesian police ill-treat prisoners accused of separatism in Papua and Maluku, says a human rights group.
CHRISTIAN leaders have condemned the recent intrusion into a Korean Buddhist temple by members of a self-styled radical anti-communist outfit.
A SOLAR-POWERED chapel is set to be built by residents of a mountain village in the northern Philippine province of Ifugao.
A CATHOLIC bishop welcomed the reported plan of at least seven foreign mining companies to cease operations and leave the southern Philippines due to threats by communist rebels.
CHURCH leaders in the central Philippine city of Cebu are scrambling to find ways to avert a strike that is threatening to trigger a power crisis.
A FESTIVAL celebrated on “Holy Innocents Day” in the central Philippine province of Aklan, reminds Filipinos to keep their faith strong amid modern-day challenges.
STRAINS in the relationship between the Catholic Church in the Philippines and the government have become more pronounced in 2010 following the election of President Benigno Aquino III.
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