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All Souls’ Day 2020 is poignant reminder of COVID-19
The feast of All Souls’ Day, when Catholics remember and pray for the dead, has weighted significance this year when so many have died of COVID-19 and the pandemic’s restrictions have prevented usual funeral services and final goodbyes in person.
Fr Herman Menjuan, first Malaysian ordained as Mill Hill Missionary
On Oct 25, the Catholic faithful witnessed through live telecast via Youtube, the first Malaysian ordained as Mill Hill missionary at St Joseph’s Parish Shaury Moyo, Nairobi, Kenya.
French bishops praying for victims of knife attack in Nice Basilica
At least three people were murdered in an horrific attack on Thursday at the Basilica of Notre Dame in Nice. French bishops express their pain and closeness to the victims.
Kuching Archbishop suspends Catholic Masses and Church activities
Archbishop Simon Poh of the Archdiocese of Kuching has issued an immediate temporary suspension of all Masses and Church activities for churches in the Red Zone until further notice.
First Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Malaysia has passed away, aged 88
His Eminence, Anthony Soter Cardinal Fernandez, Archbishop Emeritus of
Kuala Lumpur has peacefully passed on at 12.35 pm at the St Francis Xavier
Home for the Elderly (Little Sisters of the Poor).
“A moment of rejoicing for the little Churches in the region”
“By deciding to name Bishop Cornelius Sim, the Holy Father, Pope Francis, is expressing his solidarity with the Church in the peripheries,” said Msgr Marco Sprizzi, the charge d’affaires at the Vatican embassy in Kuala Lumpur.