UCA News Podcast

Updated: 29 Mar 2025 • 790 episodes
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Listen to interviews, commentaries, news summaries and analysis on social, political and religious developments that relate or are of interest to the Church in Asia. Enrich yourself with Sunday homilies and daily Gospel reflections. To donate go to www.ucanews.com/donate

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Lent is a time for me to come to my senses and return to my Father. I do not need fancy words. I do not need to buy forgiveness with good deeds or intentions. All I need is to say, "Father, I have flunked." About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan,

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Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule for around 10 minutes.  The 22-year-old survived a murderous attack at his workplace over an alleged desecration of Islamic texts. 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,

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We are celebrating Lent, the season of repentance. We reflect upon our sinfulness and do what we can with God's help to change our lives. Rather than punishing us, God gives us chance after chance to stop causing divine and human suffering. About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s

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Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule for around 10 minutes.  A court handed down jail terms on eight indigenous people in Indonesia’s Christian-majority East Nusa Tenggara province amid a land dispute with a company owned by a Catholic diocese. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the w

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Lent is a chance to live our true citizenship. In prayer, fasting and sacrifice, we weaken our ties to the world. We withdraw from our citizenship in this world in order to focus upon our true home, our true citizenship. About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-

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Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule around 10 minutes.   Christians have mourned a Protestant bishop’s son, who was killed by men who also gang raped female tourists in southern India. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia. Filed by UCA News reporters, compiled

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