this month inside World Mission
Korea - Not Worth Living
A Korean bishop, prompted by debt-ridden Koreans committing suicide, has asked Catholics to help alleviate their neighbors' "burden".
Brazil - A Landless People?
The Brazilian Catholic Church presses for agricultural reform in, the relations between the Church and President Lula appear deteriorating.
Ivory Coast - Hope For Peace
In 2002, following an attempted military coup, Ivory Coast was plunged into a bloody civil war which led to the division of the country.
Pacific Islands- Caught In The Middle
The hunger strike of refugees on Nauru island against Canberra highlights a worrying concern about conditions of refugee camps
Vatican - Education For Development
A census by the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education reveals that two out of every three Catholic universities are in the Third World, many in non Christian areas.
MISSION IN ASIA
INDONESIA: the country with the highest Muslim population in the world. Around 160 out of its 210million citizens are Muslim. While traditionally tollerant, Islam in this archipelago is tending toward fundamentalism. PIME Missionary Fr Gheddo speaks about the enormous possibilities and challenges for the Christian mission ... Read
MISSION IN ACTION
CAMEROON: Together, Together.
It may happen that the lay leader of a Catholic community gives away this daughter to become the third wife of a Muslim man... Read
WM SPECIAL
FILIPINO MIGRATION
Beyond The Borders,
Beyond The Margins - by Gemma Tulud Cruz
"DH" for the Hong Kong domestic helper... "Japayuki" for the Japanese entertainer... "Katas ng Saudi" for the fruits of Filipino men's Saudi Arabia labor. These are some of the new vocabulary that has been invented in the Philippines to describe today's "global" Filipino... Read More
Hidden Agenda? - by Sonny Evangelista
After working over ten years in different Middle East countries, paying regularly his membership fees to the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), including his Medicare (medical insurance), Gaddy Bautista, 35, a father of three, finds no consolation from the government agency which he thought could help him in his dilemma... More
SAINTS FOR OUR TIMES
St Daniel Comboni: Trusting Heart
A, recently discovered, letter written by St Daniel to Mitterrutzner shows cost of mission in the 19th century. More
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Vol. XVI × No. 3
MARCH 2004
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WM SPECIAL REPORT
Filipino Migration and its challenges to doing mission
- by Gemma Tulud Cruz
WORLDS IN DIALOGUE
Maryknoll Missioner Fr. Bob McCahill shares his life and what inter-religious dialogue can mean in practice.
MISSION ISSUES
Slave Children
Elimination of child labor sees some progress in El Salvador. Read
March 2004
Regulars
Your Letters
World Beat
World Brief
CHURCH AND SOCIETY
Be Peacemakers - Pope John Paul II's message for the Day of Migrants and Refugees. Migration with a view to peace. Read from the Vatican website
VOCATION STORIES
- by Marnecio Cuarteros
The story of four ordinary young people, and how they grew in faith and a sense of being called... Read
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