good infection..... C.S. Lewis
Sssssshhhh...
Don't let this news spread to the Phillippines or Malaysia...
Many of them have abandoned Jesus Christ in pursuit of that Mohammed wacko.
The Mohammedans might get vewwy vewwy angwy knowing that Christianity is prospering in Asia.
Sssshhhhhh...
Up to 2003 at least, Catholics still had social and political disabilities. Catholic students could go to university because the government made money off it but they could not work for a government entity so the Catholic graduates with law and engineering and math etc degrees set themselves up in business, some as consulting companies, and have become pretty much the small business class in the country. Actually the disabilities will have been a blessing to the country once the current government evanesces or dies off or something. A whole class of ambitious, bright, and savvy has grown up outside of the establishment who know their future does not hold any sort of government subsidies or benefits. In the real world some of the government entities have had to hire freemarket consultants to get things done because they can't hire these people directly. The consulting contracts pay much better than government-set wages because the consultants can say this is the price, pay it or you don't get the services.
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Help my poor memory. Wasn't there an apparition of The Blessed Virgin Mary in Vietnam many years ago?
Those on The Wall wait yet while we're yet winning the Vietnam War.
An unfortunate name. Perhaps he could spell it Fook?
Dear Coleus,
Could You please add me to your Ping List, specially if you post any articles on Catholicism in Asia or in any part of the world.
I have a couple of Articles on the "Catholic Church in Vietnam" specially one which is dated the 7th of March 2006 from Asianews.It -- International Web Portal of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions.
The latest article dated yesterday is titled "Seminaries overflowing in Socialist Vietnam".
By definition, a "megachurch."
Most inspiring read.