Jesus,
Do you think
our pagodas need to be simpler
and quieter?
Pagodas should not be deep in tourism business.
Perhaps I should write about this issue.
I am a pencil in your hand.
Please use me to reveal your heart.
Amen.
PTH
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The Historiography of the Jesuits in Vietnam: 1615–1773 and 1957–2007
Article Table of Contents
- The Cochinchina Mission under Jesuit Padroado (1615–65)
- The Tonkin Mission under Jesuit Padroado (1627–63)
- The Jesuit Missions to Vietnam under the French and Spanish Bishops (1664–1773)
- The Jesuit Missions as Seen by French Historians during the Colonial Era
- Back to the Archives: Jesuit and Non-Jesuit Scholarship in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- The Story Continues
Anh Q. Tran, S.J.
aqtran@scu.edu
Last modified: October 2018
In contrast to the wealth of information about the Jesuits in China and Japan, the parallel story of the Jesuit presence in Vietnam has received modest scholarly attention until recent decades. Even though the Portuguese and Italian Jesuits were instrumental in establishing Christian communities in both the ancient states of Cochinchina and Tonkin that make up the present-day Vietnam, their contribution were not properly acknowledged. Part of the problem is due to the fact that prior to 1945, Vietnam was known to the Western world largely as part of French Indochina, and thus Vietnamese Catholicism was seen in the same light—as an extension of French Catholicism. For three hundred years, from the 1660s to the 1960s, the Catholic Church in Vietnam was largely under the care of the Paris Foreign Mission Society (Missions Étrangères de Paris or MEP).
Prayer 557
Jesus,
I wish
our people
from the young to the old
understand our history.
To understand our history
means to understand our ancestors.
To understand and to love.
How can we say we love people
when we don’t love our ancestors?
Amen.
PTH
Lời cầu nguyện 556 – Prayer 556
Giêsu ơi,
Cầu nguyện với Giêsu không phải là cầu xin.
Cầu nguyện với Giêsu là chia sẻ với Giêsu.
Chia sẻ mọi điều.
Chia sẻ từng phút giây.
Giống như người yêu. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 556 – Prayer 556
Asia-Pacific PV demand holds steady, Offshore Wind Spikes
Greentechmedia – Wood Mackenzie unveils new forecast figures for renewables in the Asia-Pacific region.
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Cumulative solar PV capacity in Asia-Pacific will increase by 60 percent by 2023.
The Asia-Pacific region is set to install 55 percent of all the world’s new PV in the next five years, new figures show.
The data, from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, shows demand across the region holding steady over the next half decade, even though this year will see a dip in PV installation rates for the first time ever.
Prayer 555
Jesus,
Which of my prayers is the important prayer?
I think it’s Prayer 413.*
“Please take all things in my heart, mind and soul.
I wish they are empty
so that you can put anything you want into them.“
Why important?
Because it’s the prayer to be one with you.
Most of my prayers are similar to Prayer 413,
because to be one with you is important to me.
Amen.
PTH
Prayer 554
Jesus,
I talk to you much
about all things
in every minute.
Perhaps thanks to sharing much,
we have a strong friendship.
Amen.
PTH
More than 60 000 deaths in Viet Nam each year linked to air pollution
WHO – HA NOI, 02 MAY 2018 – New data from the World Health Organization (WHO) find that more than 60 000 deaths from heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia in Viet Nam in 2016 were linked to air pollution.
Clean air is a basic requirement for human health and well-being. That’s why WHO is working closely with the government and relevant stakeholders in Viet Nam to raise awareness on air pollution and identify ways to protect the public from the health impacts of air pollution.
Dr Kidong Park, WHO Representative to Viet Nam.
Lời cầu nguyện 553 – Prayer 553
Giêsu ơi,
Giêsu đã nói với Cha rằng:
“Cha ơi, xin tha thứ cho họ,
vì họ không biết họ đang làm gì.” (Luke 23:34).
Em theo Giêsu.
Em cũng nói với Giêsu:
“Giêsu ơi, xin tha thứ cho người ấy,
vì người ấy không biết họ đang làm gì.” Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 553 – Prayer 553
Prayer 552
Jesus,
I volunteer to sacrifice myself for sinners.
Please save all souls from the fire of hell
and lead us to heaven.
Amen.
PTH
Prayer 551
Jesus,
I know
many folks are studying, and will study,
The prayer series, for years to come,
because in the series they find my experience
of having peace with you and in you.
So I will continue telling.
Telling people our stories.
Friendship stories.
Friendship full of grace.
Amen.
PTH
Migrant Caravan: Honduras, Guatemala Leaders to Meet on Migrant Caravan – The Latest: UN calls on Mexico, US to respect migrants
Honduras, Guatemala Leaders to Meet on Migrant Caravan
- VOA News
Thousands of Honduran migrants rush across the border toward Mexico, in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, Oct. 19, 2018.
The presidents of Honduras and Guatemala are set to meet Saturday to implement a strategy to return a caravan of thousands of migrants to Honduras after U.S. President Donald Trump warned the convoy must be stopped before it reaches the U.S.
A standoff between the migrants and Mexican police continued as they settled on a bridge separating Guatemala and Mexico, with some clinging to the closed border gate crying “there are children here.”
Quang Tri mobilises resources to settle post-war landmines
VIETNAM + / Vietnam News Agency
Unexploded bombs and mines found in Quang Tri province (Photo: VNA)
Quang Tri (VNA) – The central province of Quang Tri has mobilised more than 20 projects and non-project aid packages worth over 4 million USD in the first nine months of the year to address the lingering consequences of bombs and mines left by wars across the locality.
The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) from the UK has agreed to provide an additional 2.5 million USD for their mine and bomb clearance programme in the province. The money will be used to fund the sixth phase of the programme, to be carried out from August 2018 to July 2021. The programme is expected to benefit 12,400 residents.
Vietnam’s Post-1975 Agrarian Reforms: How local politics derailed socialist agriculture in southern Vietnam
Prayer 550
Jesus,
I realise
I look like you
when I am despised
because you were despised.*
I am blessed
when we are one.
Amen.
PTH
* Isaiah 53:3 New International Version (NIV)
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
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