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Series: Mission in Asia
Taiwan

A Story of Courage and Compassion

The Congregation of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd has launched an initiative to support women and children experiencing domestic abuse. The numbers are shocking. In Taiwan, in 2008 alone, there were 75,438 cases known to the government. In 2009, the number rose to 83,728; in 2010, to 98,720. Approaching women and their children who are victims of domestic violence, giving them the courage to denounce their men and also assisting in psychological terms to help them create a new and safer life are among their tasks. This is the support service recently started by the Sisters, which has now become a documentary, to raise public awareness of family violence and encourage the public to be aware of their right to a safe and secure existence.

www.asianews.it
Philippines

Fewer Filipinos Marry Due to Poverty

Fewer Filipinos have been tying the knot in the past decade as marriage has taken a low priority for courting couples because of rising poverty. The recent National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) Report on the declining number of marriages from 2001 to 2010, particularly church weddings, was “only a manifestation of the poverty and helplessness of the majority in our country today,” said Pangasinan Rep. Kimi Cojuangco.

UCA News

Is a New Food Crisis Brewing?

The international media jumped at the lower output forecasts for US maize and soybeans and wheat from Russia in 2012/13 as evidence that a food crisis is almost certainly on the way. But a range of economists and food experts also warne against overreaction that could create panic, causing governments to apply export controls that would restrict supplies of grains. This would affect markets and push prices still higher, they say.

Irin News

Is a New Food Crisis Brewing?

The international media jumped at the lower output forecasts for US maize and soybeans and wheat from Russia in 2012/13 as evidence that a food crisis is almost certainly on the way. But a range of economists and food experts also warne against overreaction that could create panic, causing governments to apply export controls that would restrict supplies of grains. This would affect markets and push prices still higher, they say.

Irin News
Philippines

Banking Breast Milk to Save Lives

The Philippine government’s state-run breast milk bank is intensifying collection efforts to boost breastfeeding among the poor and help women return to work immediately after giving birth if they want to do so. Hundreds of women come to deliver their babies at the Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital, the busiest maternity institution in Manila, the capital, where more than 12 million people live. Many women are barely able to afford even the minimal payment and, to help cover their costs, some of them donate breast milk to the hospital’s milk bank, which is used to feed babies whose mothers have lactation problems.

Irin News
India

Leprosy on the Rise

India has recorded more than 127,000 fresh cases of leprosy in 2011-12. Junior Health Minister Sudip Bandyopadhyay said the state of Uttar Pradesh topped the list with 24,627 cases, followed by Maharashtra with 17,892 cases and Bihar, with 17,801. According to the Waorld Health Organization (WHO), India accounted for 54% of the total number of leprosy cases detected worldwide in 2010, which came to 228,474.

Ritu Sharma
Milan

Farewell to a Church’s Giant

Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, Archbishop Emeritus of Milan, was buried on September 3. Born in 1927, he died on August 31, at 85, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. During the three days that his body laid in state in Milan’s Duomo, over two hundred thousand people passed quietly before his mortal remains to pay their respects and give thanks to God for their beloved shepherd. His funeral, which was attended by a big crowd, was very much like a state funeral, televised throughout Italy and in many other countries.

Manuel Giraldes | Journalist
Frontiers

“Papa, What’s on Mars?”

It was a wet and gloomy day. The 6-year-old looked out at the torrents of rain that were streaming from the dark gray gloomy sky that were spoiling the European summer and wet down some of the Olympic events. In Asia, it was far worse. The tropical rain storms went on for days, the rivers overflowed, people waded through floods carrying their meager possessions on their heads in plastic bags and basins. Their villages were submerged; the towns and cities were flooded chest high, food was lost, possessions destroyed. Lives and fields of crops were ruined, homes buried by landslides and most could not understand why there was such harsh and violent weather, the worst for decades.

Shay Cullen | PREDA Foundation
In Focus

The Highest Level of Living

“Giving,” Maxwell believes, “is the highest level of living.” Duane Hulse puts it in another perspective, “We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

Henrylito D. Tacio | Journalist
WM Special

An Evangelizer’s Guide

Only those with the highest motives and firmest faith will endure. But having been purified inwardly, they will become irresistible witnesses to the Truth and convincing announcers of the Gospel. Such persons will truly be the God-experienced messengers that Asia is waiting for. They will be sharing realities that they have personally experienced at the depths of their hearts. And they will carry the world before them!

Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil, SDB | Guwahati – India
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