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UCA News Podcast

Binu Alex, UCA News, Fr. Michael Kelly, Grithanai Napasrapiwong, John Laurenson, Father William Grimm

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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00:05:38

Homilies: Mary Mother of God Jan. 1, 2026

UCA News Podcast ·

2025/12/31

Each of us is presented with the same vocation as Mary. God says to you and to me, "Make my Son present in the world. Forgive sins. Bring healing. Live with faith that my love is stronger than your death. By word and deed, assure the world of my love."About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit

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00:06:23

Homilies: Holy Family (A) Dec. 28, 2025

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2025/12/27

The word "holy" comes from the word "healthy." Holiness is a kind of health, and health may be the means for us to understand holiness and, therefore, what we celebrate on this feast of the Holy Family.About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.comTo contribute please visit

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00:05:36

Homilies: Christmas Dec. 25, 2025

UCA News Podcast ·

2025/12/24

Gospel Reflection by Father Bill GrimmToday we remember and celebrate the fact that we can know God's glory and power not as some sort of information, but as a person. So, on Christmas Day we move from the story to the program, from what happened long ago to our vocation today.About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com For news in and about the

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00:07:00

Observations: It’s a bad time to celebrate Christmas

UCA News Podcast ·

2025/12/22

We live in a bad time, maybe so bad that we have no reason to celebrate Christmas. But there is a close relationship between bad times and the coming of Christ among us and for us. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.Produced by Binu Alex About the Speaker: Father 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

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00:05:49

Homilies: Fourth Sunday of the Year (A) Dec. 21, 2025

UCA News Podcast ·

2025/12/20

The one whose birth we are about to celebrate has many titles, but one name, the name he shared with so many other people in his land. It is wondrous because it is so common. The mystery that we celebrate in his birth is that the God of the universe is met in someone like us, someone with a simple name, an ordinary Tom, Dick or Yeshua.About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.For news in and about the

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00:11:54

UCA News Weekly Summary, December 19, 2025

UCA News Podcast ·

2025/12/19

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.The Philippines’ communist party, waging a long-standing war against the government, has declared a ceasefire to let citizens peacefully celebrate Christmas and New Year. 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, text edited by Anosh Malekar, presented by Joe Mathews, Cover photo by AFP, background score by Andre Louis and produced by

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00:05:39

Homilies: Third Sunday of Advent (A) Dec. 14, 2025

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2025/12/13

Now as we practice the carols of "peace on earth, good will to all" it is time to renew our commitment to live as Christ who came not to condemn sinners, but to embrace and save them. About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.comTo contribute please visit www.ucanews.com/donateOn

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00:10:16

UCA News Weekly Summary, December 12, 2025

UCA News Podcast ·

2025/12/12

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.Pope Leo XIV urged an end to hostilities as Thailand and Cambodia engaged in a fresh, undeclared war over a longstanding border dispute. 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, text edited by Anosh Malekar, presented by Joe Mathews, Cover photo by AFP, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex for ucanews.comFor

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00:06:14

Observations: Diakonia

UCA News Podcast ·

2025/12/12

A Vatican commission has said that there is insufficient historical evidence to support the ordination of women to the deaconate. This disappoints those who want to see women join the clergy. However, it should remind us that the really important diaconate in the Church is already being provided by women and men who are not ordained to service. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.Produced by Binu Alex About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner

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00:05:57

Homilies: Second Sunday of Advent (A) Dec. 7, 2025

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2025/12/06

"Advent" means "coming" and coming is something that happens from the future. At this time of year I remind myself that my whole life is lived in expectation of something that is coming, and that does not merely mean December 25.About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.comTo

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00:10:08

UCA News Weekly Summary, December 4, 2025

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2025/12/05

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.Churches and temples in Sri Lanka are providing emergency relief to thousands left stranded by Cyclone Ditwah. 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, text edited by Anosh Malekar, presented by Joe Mathews, Cover photo by AFP, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex for ucanews.comFor news in and about the Church

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00:06:28

Homilies: First Sunday Advent A (A) Nov. 30, 2025

UCA News Podcast ·

2025/11/29

Advent is about the other kind of wait, the doing wait, the moving wait, the heading toward a goal wait. Perhaps it is more like riding on a train than like sitting in a theater before the show starts.About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.comTo contribute please visit

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00:11:48

UCA News Weekly Summary, November 28, 2025

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2025/11/28

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.South Korea’s largest Buddhist order has called for the immediate withdrawal of a proposed special law that would offer government support for the Church-organized World Youth Day in 2027. 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, text edited by Anosh Malekar, presented by Joe Mathews, Cover photo by AFP, background score by Andre

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00:07:26

Homilies: Thirty-Fourth or Last Sunday of the Year...

UCA News Podcast ·

2025/11/22

If I am a servant of the cross-king, of a king who does not sit, then I too must not be a sitter. I must show my loyalty to my king by moving among others as he did, as he does, not to receive homage or reward, but to serve.About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.comTo contribute

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00:10:45

UCA News Weekly Summary, November 21, 2025

UCA News Podcast ·

2025/11/21

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.We start with an18-year-old Cambodian worker was sexually assaulted while attempting to cross the closed border and return home. 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, text edited by Anosh Malekar, presented by Joe Mathews, Cover photo by AFP, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex for ucanews.comFor news in and

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00:16:27

Interview with Lisa Sullivan Maryknoll lay missioner...

UCA News Podcast ·

2025/11/20

In a sea of negotiators, lobbyists, and policy experts at the UN Climate Change Conference, Lisa Sullivan stands out for saying it as it is: “This is no longer an environmental problem. It’s a human problem.”Sullivan, a lay missioner with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns (OGC) engaged in global advocacy and education, is attending COP30 in Belem, Brazil.Her journey with the Maryknoll family spans over 40 years, including more than two decades in the parched fields of Venezuela and El

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00:06:37

Homilies: Thirty-Third Sunday of the Year (C) Nov....

UCA News Podcast ·

2025/11/15

Faith is not certainty, it is a choice. I choose, because of the evidence I have experienced of God's loving help in ages past, to believe that love will not desert me. If I am right, I will know. If I am wrong, I will not know. And in that case, neither being wrong nor having lived at all will matter.About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit

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00:10:25

UCA News Weekly Summary, November 14, 2025

UCA News Podcast ·

2025/11/14

isten to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.Christians and civil society groups condemn latest attack as move to destabilize peace and harmony in region amid blasts in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. 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, text edited by Anosh Malekar, presented by Joe Mathews, Cover photo by AFP, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex for

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00:06:05

Homilies: Dedication of the Lateran Basilica Nov. 9,...

UCA News Podcast ·

2025/11/08

This feast of one church building in Rome reminds us that we can and should appreciate and celebrate all the buildings in which we gather as a community. Those buildings, whether they be lowly huts or grand basilicas, are our homes.About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.comTo

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00:11:45

UCA News Weekly Summary, November 7, 2025

UCA News Podcast ·

2025/11/07

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh told to pay compensation to Muslim man detained for alleged forced conversion of a Hindu woman. 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, text edited by Anosh Malekar, presented by Joe Mathews, Cover photo by AFP, background score by Andre Louis and produced by Binu Alex for ucanews.comFor news in

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