Editorial


        At 2:28 P.M. on May 12, 2008, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck Sichuan Province in China, about 100 kilometers north of Chengdu. The immense proportions of the tragedy are still before our eyes, printed everyday in the newspapers. The statistics as of June 17, 2008  ......

 

400 Years of Catholicism in Shanghai
A pastoral letter issued at Christmas 2007
by Bp. Aloysius Jin Luxian, SJ

Aloysius Jin Luxian, SJ, Translated by Michael J. Sloboda, M.M.

        In 1608, Xu Guangqi began dingyou upon the death of his father. (In ancient times, when the father or mother of a government official passed away, he resigned from his office and returned home for three years of filial mourning, called dingyou.) En route home from ......

 

The Mongol Ethnic Minority in the Eyes of the CICM Missionaries

Patrick Taveirne, CICM

        Beginning in the early 18th century small, scattered Christian communities (chr?tient?s) of migrants and refugees from the north China plain developed just north of the Great Wall (saiwai), which is today the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region (IMAR). These  ......

 

Muslim Revival: A “Peaceful Protest” of the Uygurs in Xinjiang

Sergio Ticozzi, PIME

        In a November 2007 article in the Journal of Contemporary China, Joanne Smith Finley synthesizes the role of the recent revival of Islamic religious practice in the life and community of the Uygur people in Xinjiang in the following five ways. It is:  .......

 

Spiritual Shangrila – The Catholic Church Among the Tibetans of Yunnan Province

Liu Dingyin, Summary translation by Peter Barry, MM

        The Tibetan area in Yunnan Province occupies the northwest corner of the province. It includes the three counties in today’s Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and certain parts of the Nujiang Lisuzu Autonomous Prefecture. In 1846, Rome gave our country's  ......

 

Chinese Leaders True Face Revealed

Anthony Lam, Translated by Purple Kwong

        On March 10, 2008, during the Third Plenary Session of the 11th National People’s Congress in Beijing, Mr. Ye Xiaowen, Director of the State Administration for Religious Affairs, in an interview with the Nanfang Weekend newspaper made a strong statement about the Catholic Church, which has rarely been seen in recent years. His words were shocking to readers abroad. The complete interview was published in the March 13th edition of Nanfang Weekend. The interview was also available on the Internet. ......

 

Witnessing to the Word in the World – Reflective Overview, 2007 IACM Assembly

James H. Kroeger, MM

        “Sharing the Good News in the Interaction of Cultures: ‘The Word of God grew and multiplied’ (Acts 12:24)” served as the integrating theme of the Third Plenary Assembly of the International Association of Catholic Missiologists (IACM), held at the SVD  ......

 

BOOK REVIEW : Venture into the Unknown: Loretto in China 1923-1998

Reviewed by Michael J. Sloboda, MM

        After a long journey from the U.S.A., six Sisters of Loretto arrived in Hanyang, Hubei (湖北漢陽), on October 19, 1923. Hanyang is now part of the metropolis of Wuhan (武漢), but it was a separate city in the days before there was a bridge across the Yangtze River  ......