Posts Tagged ‘Catholic’
Sun-dried Bibles – by Father Wang Yuliang »
SHANDONG - I always felt that there were never enough Bibles in the churches in China. I grew up in a village church in Shandong province. More than 20 years ago, there were not more than 20 Catholic Bibles shared among the 500-600 parish members. In those days, church members would read the Bible aloud through the amplifiers for the rest of [...]
Catholics in Shanghai »
SHANGHAI -- Shen Cheng a 27 year-old, heads the distribution arm of the Guangqi Research Center and Publication, Shanghai Catholic Diocese. Shen is not new to publications; when he was still a university undergraduate, he started a Catholic newsletter together with his friends, featuring selected scriptural portions in every installment. He is [...]
1 million Bibles and New Testament for Catholics in »
This is unprecedented in China: One million copies of Bible and NT to be printed and distributed free to Catholic believers in Mainland China. Never before has there been such a large volume of Bible and NT ever distributed free in China within a year. The Catholic community is growing steadily in the Mainland. Official estimates reported 6 [...]
Sichuan Earthquake (Part 1) »
On May 12, 2008, China was wrecked by a deadly 8.0 magnitude earthquake which struck the province of Sichuan leaving 5 million homeless and 15 million people displaced. The death toll reached 69,226 according to the latest official records. Nearly 9,000 children died when their schools collapsed in the earthquake while more than 5,000 [...]
Sichuan Earthquake (Part 2) »
Distributing the Catholic Studium Biblicum Version of the Bible in the earthquake affected Sichuan Xichang Diocese. Photo by: Catholic Patriotic Association Father Lee from the Chengdu Catholic Diocese was so filled with gratitude to UBS donors for the bibles distributed in the earthquake affected areas that he wrote: “I would [...]
