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In This Issue


Hope for Better Officials

Voters will expect those they voted for and won to be true to their mandate of sincere, compassionate and transparent public service.

Digital Drugs

Recent studies reveal behavioral and emotional problems in adolescents who are addicted to the Internet, including addictive behaviors such as substance abuse and gambling. Families need to create an…

Marine Turtles on the Brink of Extinction

It is not just tawilis, lapu-lapu, sharks, and giant clams that are fast vanishing in the country’s waters. The Switzerland-based International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has also…

Dentist by Profession, Missionary by Vocation

Catalina Lucman, or Dentist Bambi as she is fondly called by her family and friends, is a dentist in the morning and a catechist in the evening. Despite her busy schedule, she is still able to allot…

Happy Are You

In this article, the author presents a privileged way of living the first Beatitude (“How happy are the poor in spirit; theirs is the kingdom of heaven” – Mt 5:3): by adopting a simple lifestyle and…

Reviving the Apostolic Church

The Neocatechumenal Way is a worldwide Catholic movement that makes the participants rediscover their baptism. Many conversions and vocations to the ministry are often the cherished result of their…

The Missionary Whose Feet Were Washed

A missionary in China recounts how the mutual washing of the feet on Holy Thursday, during the Easter Triduum, made him realize more deeply the power of Christ’s love that defeated the darkness of…

COSTA RICA: Zero Emissions By 2050

Costa Rica has launched an economy-wide plan to “decarbonize” the country by 2050, as the Central American nation aims to show other nations that it is possible to address climate change.

World Touch


SOUTH KOREA: Need To Resume Dialogue With North Korea

“Even if the summit between the U.S. and North Korea did not generate a satisfactory mutual agreement, we hope that the dialogues between South Korea, North Korea and the United States will resume as…

HOLY SEE - CHINA: Vatican Will Improve Agreement With Beijing

A special envoy of Pope Francis said the Vatican would improve its agreement with Beijing on the appointment of bishops, to help reunite the official and underground Catholic churches in mainland…

ARGENTINA: We Are All Missionaries “By Nature”

“Being a missionary is a vocation, a call and an election,” said His Excellency Monsignor José Vicente Conejero Gallego to Agenzia Fides, who arrived as a missionary in the Argentine diocese of…

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