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 Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.

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South Korea’s largest Buddhist order has called for the immediate withdrawal of a proposed special law that would offer government support for the Church-organized World Youth Day in 2027. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.

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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 serve.

About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.

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We start with an18-year-old Cambodian worker was sexually assaulted while attempting to cross the closed border and return home. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.

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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 lay missioner with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns (OGC) engaged in global advocacy and education, is attending COP30 in Belem, Brazil.Her journey with the Maryknoll family spans over 40 years, including more than two decades in the parched fields of Venezuela and El Salvador.Now based in Washington, D.C., her work is spread across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, addressing the needs of communities that bear the brunt of climate change despite contributing little to its causes. Umar Manzoor Shah in conversation.

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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 not know. And in that case, neither being wrong nor having lived at all will matter.

About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.

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Christians and civil society groups condemn latest attack as move to destabilize peace and harmony in region amid blasts in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.

Filed by UCA News reporters, compiled by Fabian Antony, text edited by Anosh Malekar, presented by Joe Mathews, Cover photo by AFP, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex for ucanews.com

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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, are our homes.

About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.

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