we established our Bible study group and invited priests from time to time to our group. While most of us went to local churches for Sunday Mass regularly, we did get together once a while. At that point, we didn’t have further thoughts about the future until God sent us Fr. Ed Mala...
MISSIONS.—Ancient Christian.—The introduction of Christianity into China has been ascribed not only to the Apostle of India, St. Thomas, but also to St. Bartholomew. In the third century, Arnobius, in “Adversus Gentes”, speaks of the Seres, with the Persians and the Medes, as among ...
From universities to Christian churches: Agency in the intercultural engagement of non-Christian Chinese students in the UK. Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-019-00474-5 Article Google Scholar Yu, Y., & Moskal, M. (2019a). Missing intercultural engagements in the university ...
The term is also used for similar ceremonies outside theRoman Catholic Church, especially in theAnglo-Catholicbranch ofAnglicanismand in certainLutheranchurches. Acomparable service, with a wholly different ritual form and texts, exists in theEastern OrthodoxandEastern Catholic Churches, as well as in...
I went to Christian Hospital in Mizoram, NorthEast India. Before I set off I had done little preparation. I had no idea what this place is like, not have a clue what I’ll do there, or what kind of people I’ll meet. But I had an absolutely wonderful time there and I felt very...
The local Rio Grande Valley Chinese Christian Ministry had kindly arranged meeting place for us at the Trinity Baptist Church and they have gaciously offered to provide ground transportation for us. Currently I had informed them that there will be a group arriving in the evening at 5:20 pm ...
This postdoctoral grant has been designed in synergy with the present research of the promoter, Pierre Petit, who analyses devotional medals through an anthropological and numismatic lens. Christian and Buddhist medals, Taoist (and other) coin-like talismans, and lucky charms are part of everyday ...
Out there lay Rome, the still smoking and fiery hearth from which ancient cultures had spread, enclosed in the tangled rootwork of the Christian and Occidental Middle Ages. There classical antiquity still lived in all its splendour and ruthlessness. "I always wonder about people who go to ...
But not before publishingGod Is Red, a book based on interviews with diverse Chinese Christians. Liao makes clear that he is not a Christian himself, despite the attempts of some of these believers to convert him. He is fascinated by the vitality of the churches, however, and by the tenaci...
Last week I was reading and praying for the Duota (¿Õà) people in Operation China. Under the Christianity section at the end of the page, it reads ¡ÈThere are few churches or Christian communities among the Duota, even though they live near the heavily evangelized Kado and...