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t Vol. XXVI, No. 1 January 2011 INDIA: BOOK ON CHRISTIANITY LAUNCHED INDONESIA: CATHOLIC JOURNALISTS GATHER TO 'PRAY' Divine Word Father Dominic Emmanuel launched his book FOR THE COUNTRY “Christianity, Hindutva, Conversion and FAQs” at a function in More than 100 Catholic journalists gathered at Canisius College in New Delhi on Jan. 15, celebrating the feast of Saint Arnold Janssen, Jakarta on January 21 for a Holy Mass themed “Pray for Indonesia.” founder of the Divine Word Society. The author says the 171-page In a speech, Apostolic nuncio Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli has urged book aims to dispel “misconceptions” about Christianity held by the participants to promote good values by being closer to Jesus the majority of Indians. It will help those who want to know more Christ. “You should be closer to Jesus so that you may gain about Christianity and the rationale behind the Church’s social spirituality in communication that can enlighten people,” the prelate services in the country, he says. (UCANEWS) said. Telling the journalists to be persistent, the Vatican nuncio said PHILIPPINES: ‘JESUS IN FILM’ SEMINAR the Holy Father has called on all Catholics to use modern methods Some 30 graduate students and seminarians of the Pontifical to spread news. “I hope you can make the Holy Father’s request a University of Santo Tomas in Manila attended a Jesus in Film reality,” he said. The Mass was organized by the Association of seminar conducted by Fr. Peter Malone on January 21. The Sacred Indonesian Catholic Journalists. (UCANEWS) Heart missioner and known author from Australia expounded the MALAYSIA: CATHOLIC CHURCH REPRINTS 400 YEAR OLD theme “Jesus and Christ-figures, Sacraments in Film,” showing DICTIONARY AS PROOF OF THE USE OF ‘ALLAH’ WORD video clips from selected Jesus- and Hollywood films dating as far The Catholic Church has reprinted a rare 400 years old Malay- back as 1920s. The two-hour seminar included interaction with the Latin Dictionary, apparently to resolve the more than a year long participants, who were mostly students of the MA Theology dispute about Christian use of the world “Allah.” Church leaders program major in social/pastoral communication (MAT-SPC) of the say the book proves that missionaries have played a key role in the university. Fr. Malone facilitated a similar Faith and Film seminar exchange of knowledge and culture between Europe and the on January 13-15 at the Communication Foundation for Asia (CFA) countries of Southeast Asia 400 years ago. A priest who worked for center in Manila. CFA is run by the Sacred Heart Fathers. 11 years to reprint the dictionary said it is a critical tool to minimize KOREA: CATHOLICS MOURN WRITER’S DEATH the wrong belief that the spread of Christianity in the local Cardinal Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk of Seoul has expressed languages of Malaysia is a recent phenomenon of the twentieth sadness over the January 22 death of Park Wan-suh, a Catholic century.The Dictionarium Malaicum-Latinum and Latinum- woman novelist and essayist, who delved into post Korean War Malaicum was published for the first time in 1631 in Rome. A single realities. She was 80. Park’s novels criticize materialism and copy of the original still exists, and is kept at the Pontifical oppression against women. She died from gall bladder cancer. “Park Urbanianum University in Rome. (ASIANEWS) was a representative writer and a great Catholic who showed good KOREA: BIBLE WITH ANNOTATIONS PUBLISHED example,” said Father Matthias Hur Young-yup, public relations The Biblical Committee of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of director of Seoul archdiocese. (UCANEWS) Korea (CBCK) has published the Bible with Annotations on INDIA: COMMUNICATION IS AN ATTITUDE, BISHOP SAYS December 25, 2010 five years after the publication of the Korean The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) Commission Bible in 2005. The new Bible includes introductions, annotations for Social Communication held its annual national meeting of the and references to help people understand Scripture better. The Chairman Bishops and Secretaries of the 13 regional Bishops’ words are interpreted more clearly by explaining sacred tradition Councils in India at Don Bosco, The Citadal, Chennai, January 3- and the Church’s magisterium. The interpretations are based on La 5. Inaugurating the three-day seminar, Chairman of the CBCI Traduction Oecuménique de la Bible, the French ecumenical Commission for Social Communication Bishop Chacko translation by Catholics and Protestants in 1975-76. According to Thottumarickal svd, highlighted the priorities of the church experts, the new Bible will be helpful for homilies, catechesis and regarding social communication. Communication, he said, is not faith enrichment. (CBCK) only for specialists but for everyone. It should be an attitude of INDIA: APOSTOLIC NUNCIO RELEASES BIBLE IN BRAILLE mind expressed in day-today relationships rather than expertise on Apostolic Nuncio to India Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio has technology. He urged the use technologies like mobile phone and released a Bible in Braille language on January 9 to benefit the e-mail more frequently for greater pastoral effectiveness. (CBCI) visually impaired. The nuncio released the first copy of the Tamil inter-confessional version of the New Testament and Psalms during Jesus, the Word Incarnate, reveals the Divine life the 23rd plenary of the Catholic Conference of Bishops in India as communication, sharing. (CBCI) in Chennai. The Institute of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart - Bernard Haering, 1979 of Jesus based in Palayamkottai, Tamil Nadu started this project in 2006. (CBCI) KOREA: FILM DOCU ON MISSIONARY PRIEST’S LIFE KOREA: AUDIO BIBLE GOING ONLINE ATTRACTED VIEWERS The Archdiocese of Seoul has announced on January 11 the “Don’t Cry for Me, Sudan,” a documentary film on the life of online audio release of five books of the Old Testament - Exodus, the late Salesian Father John Lee Tae-suk, sdb (1962-2010) has Judges, Ruth, Amos and Zecharaiah - on the archdiocese’s attracted more than 120,000 movie-goers since its release in GoodNews service at