Young Indonesian Catholics launch donation app
Vinea Dei Foundation seeks to build on church construction campaigns with more charitable projects
Indonesia s crowdfunding Vinea Dei Foundation has launched a mobile application to make donations easier as part of a plan to increase the scope of their services. (Photo: Ryan Dagur/UCA News)
A crowdfunding group run by young Indonesian Catholics that has helped build more than 100 churches in remote areas has launched a mobile app to make donations easier and more transparent as part of a plan to increase the scope of their services.
The Vinea Dei Foundation launched the Android application Jalakasih
How important is Fratelli tutti for Asia?
Dialogue between people of different faiths and ethnicity is a necessity, not an option
When I first read Pope Francis’ encyclical
Fratelli tutti, one question that immediately came to mind was: How important is the papal document in addressing some of the existing issues in Asia in general and Indonesia in particular?
Indeed,
Fratelli tutti is an important document partly because of the timing of its production. It was issued when the entire world is suffering deeply from outbreaks of the coronavirus pandemic.
The document is also important because it reflects the pope’s continuing concern and care for universal humanity and the environment as well as a call, particularly for Catholics, to continue their endeavors in making the world a better place to live for all creation. In his earlier encyclical