UCA News Podcast

A Vatican commission has said that there is insufficient historical evidence to support the ordination of women to the deaconate. This disappoints those who want to see women join the clergy. However, it should remind...

"Advent" means "coming" and coming is something that happens from the future. At this time of year I remind myself that my whole life is lived in expectation of something that is coming, and that does not merely mean...

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes. Churches and temples in Sri Lanka are providing emergency relief to thousands left stranded by Cyclone Ditwah. Listen to the story and...

Advent is about the other kind of wait, the doing wait, the moving wait, the heading toward a goal wait. Perhaps it is more like riding on a train than like sitting in a theater before the show starts. About the...

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes. South Korea’s largest Buddhist order has called for the immediate withdrawal of a proposed special law that would offer government...

If I am a servant of the cross-king, of a king who does not sit, then I too must not be a sitter. I must show my loyalty to my king by moving among others as he did, as he does, not to receive homage or reward, but to...

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes. We start with an18-year-old Cambodian worker was sexually assaulted while attempting to cross the closed border and return home. Listen...

In a sea of negotiators, lobbyists, and policy experts at the UN Climate Change Conference, Lisa Sullivan stands out for saying it as it is: “This is no longer an environmental problem. It’s a human problem.”Sullivan, a...

Faith is not certainty, it is a choice. I choose, because of the evidence I have experienced of God's loving help in ages past, to believe that love will not desert me. If I am right, I will know. If I am wrong, I will...

isten to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes. Christians and civil society groups condemn latest attack as move to destabilize peace and harmony in region amid blasts in Pakistan...

This feast of one church building in Rome reminds us that we can and should appreciate and celebrate all the buildings in which we gather as a community. Those buildings, whether they be lowly huts or grand basilicas...

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes. North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh told to pay compensation to Muslim man detained for alleged forced conversion of a Hindu woman...

The feast might be called All Sinners Day, for it is a day to recall that though we are called to sanctity and eternal life, we are not the saints we might be, the saints we hope to become. About the Speaker: Father...

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes. Indonesian authorities criticized for including former military dictator Suharto in a list of nominees for recognition as national...

Love it or fear it, a new Church is being born. It will take several lifetimes, but eventually the Church throughout the world will be different because of what is happening at the back of the temple. About the Speaker...

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes. An upcoming Bollywood movie, claiming the iconic Taj Mahal is a Hindu temple, has caused fresh controversy in the Hindu-majority...

Those in power who fear what people — especially those who have been deprived — have to say deprive themselves of the opportunity to change their lives for the better — in other words, of the chance to repent. About the...

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes. Church leaders and rights activists have condemned a surge in violence against media workers in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province...

We receive many gifts from God, but it is not the gifts nor even the recipient, but the Giver, upon whom we should focus. About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in...

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes. Singapore carried out its second execution in two weeks for drug offence, amid allegations by family of a Malaysian man that “critical...

People and situations will always appear that will need a response from this servant of God. The more I respond, the more opportunities for service will open up to me. About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a...

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes. Violence broke out after the alleged rape of a tribal girl in the restive hilly region in southeast Bangladesh. Listen to the story and...

This parable is a wake-up call to see that each and every man and woman is a child of God, and therefore my brother, my sister. Awareness can be the first step in conversion. About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is...

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes. A female journalist and five activists accused of aiding and abetting terrorism in the the Philippines are set free after spending...

Investing is a way to wealth in much of the world today. Ideally, an investment grows, leading to yet further investment. Can I do that with my possessions, putting at least some of them forward for the needy? About the...