Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Best of UCA News 2021
A collection of 24 articles selected from the best of UCA News commentaries and features of December 2021. The 2021 edition of Best of UCA News comes with commentaries spanning socio-economic, political, and religious issues covering the Asian Church with its global impact and contributions. Twenty-four of the best commentaries that analyze the impact of the Catholic Missions in Asia along with its current progress are now available in a single eBook/PDF. Discover today how the Church in Asia becomes the voice of the voiceless and puts into practice the missionary calling handed over to it.
Best of UCA News October 2021 Edition
A collection of 24 articles selected from the best of UCA News commentaries and features of October 2021. The October 2021 edition of Best of UCA News comes with commentaries spanning socio-economic, political, and religious issues covering the Asian Church with its global impact and contributions. Twenty-four of the best commentaries that analyze the impact of the Catholic Missions in Asia along with its current progress are now available in a single eBook/PDF. Discover today how the Church in Asia becomes the voice of the voiceless and puts into practice the missionary calling handed over to it.
Best of UCA News November 2021 Edition
A collection of 25 articles selected from the best of UCA News commentaries and features of November 2021. The November 2021 edition of Best of UCA News comes with commentaries spanning socio-economic, political, and religious issues covering the Asian Church with its global impact and contributions. Twenty-five of the best commentaries that analyze the impact of the Catholic Missions in Asia along with its current progress are now available in a single eBook/PDF. Discover today how the Church in Asia becomes the voice of the voiceless and puts into practice the missionary calling handed over to it.
Best of UCA News January 2022 Edition
A collection of 24 articles selected from the best of UCA News commentaries and features of January 2022. The January 2022 edition of Best of UCA News comes with commentaries spanning socio-economic, political, and religious issues covering the Asian Church with its global impact and contributions. Twenty-four of the best commentaries that analyze the impact of the Catholic Missions in Asia along with its current progress are now available in a single eBook/PDF. Discover today how the Church in Asia becomes the voice of the voiceless and puts into practice the missionary calling handed over to it.
Best of UCA News February 2022 Edition
A collection of 26 articles selected from the best of UCA News commentaries and features of February 2022. The February edition of ‘Best of UCA News’ has 26 articles. Some of the important articles in the edition are explained below. On the first anniversary of the military coup, Benedict Rogers writes about the consequences of the Myanmar military coup that happened on Feb 01, 2021. In the article ‘The free world must act to hold Myanmar’s gangsters to account’, he highlights that Christians have been targeted with particular intensity by the military junta. He urges the international community to do everything they can to restore democracy and freedom in the Southeast Asian natio...
Citizens of Two Kingdoms: Civil Society and Christian Religion in Greater China
This book examines the complex relationships of civil society and Christianity in Greater China. Different authors investigate to what extent Christians demonstrate the quality of civic virtues and reflect on the difficulties of applying civil society theories to Chinese societies.
Spoutings
William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the publisher of UCA News. Based in Tokyo, he regularly contributes columns. Author Speaks I was a reticent toddler, not even using baby talk. My younger sister was already a chatterbox when I had yet to utter a single word. My worried parents took me to be examined by a specialist who reportedly said some version of, “He just has nothing to talk about, but someday he’ll get around to it.” Then, when I was three years old, we went to the zoo. On the way home we visited so...
Beds and Blessings in Italy
Helps readers to reflect on the role of gratitude in their lives and to cultivate this virtue for their own benefit. The first author to offer a critique of gratitude through an explanation of various types of gratitude, Charles Shelton uses his skills as a clinical psychologist to present insights into the human experience of gratitude based on his own research. The exercises, strategies, and reflection questions threaded throughout the book give it a practical dimension that facilitates the reader's growth. Shelton's highly original reflection on Jesus as a grateful person lends a spiritual dimension to his work. This book will benefit individual readers as well as serve as a resource for spiritual direction workshops, spiritual formation courses, or ministry formation programs.--From publisher description.
Taking Stock of Regional Democratic Trends in Asia and the Pacific Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This GSoD In Focus Special Brief provides an overview of the state of democracy in Asia and the Pacific at the end of 2019, prior to the outbreak of the pandemic, and assesses some of the preliminary impacts that the pandemic has had on democracy in the region in 2020. Key fact and findings include: Prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries across Asia and the Pacific faced a range of democratic challenges. Chief among these were continuing political fragility, violent conflict, recurrent military interference in the political sphere, enduring hybridity, deepening autocratization, creeping ethnonationalism, advancing populist leadership, democratic backsliding, shrinking civi...
El Niño Ready Nations and Disaster Risk Reduction
El Niño can have drastic effects on livelihoods in affected regions. As the climate changes, there will also be changes in El Nino behavior and therefor in its impacts around the globe on human activities such as agriculture, water resources and weather extremes. The country-specific studies covered in this book are undertaken by experts on climate, water and weather-related fields in the countries being studied. Furthermore, aspects from other disciplines, for example from social sciences have been drawn upon in order to cover crosscutting themes which are identified: depicting similarities and differences in responses to El Nino's impacts such as drought, floods, famines, health-related issues and the like.
