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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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00:06:24

Homilies: Ash Wednesday Feb. 18, 2026

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2026/02/17

Welcome to Lent, a time to reflect on our ashiness and our salvation. From now till the start of the Sacred Triduum we will remember that we are Cinderella sitting in sin.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 Twitter Follow Or

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00:05:57

Homilies: Sixth Sunday of the Year (A) Feb. 15, 2026

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2026/02/14

Jesus taught the adults and blessed the children, but the Church has gotten it backwards. That was not the case in the early days of the Church. The section of Matthew's Gospel that we call "The Sermon on the Mount" was intended by Matthew as a sort of catechism for adults.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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00:13:06

UCA News Weekly Summary, February 13, 2026

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2026/02/13

Listen to current week’s news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.Leaders of Nahdlatul Ulama have lauded the support given by Christian churches during the centenary celebrations. 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.com For news in and

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00:05:57

Homilies: Fifth Sunday of the Year (A) Feb. 8, 2026

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2026/02/07

The proverb says that "one bad apple spoils the whole bunch." That may be true of a crate of apples, but in today's Gospel, Jesus tells us that it does not apply to people. Good is contagious.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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00:12:41

UCA News Weekly Summary, February 6, 2026

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2026/02/06

Listen to current week’s news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.Sri Lanka’s Anglican Church has called for the withdrawal of the proposed law granting sweeping powers to authorities that could undermine fundamental constitutional rights of citizens. 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

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00:05:47

Homilies: Fourth Sunday of the Year (A) Feb. 1, 2026

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2026/01/31

Poverty of spirit frees me to accept God's greatest gift, the Kingdom, because I am not holding on to any illusions that my talents, my possessions, my time, or my life are my own.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 Twitter

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00:10:25

UCA News Weekly Summary, January 30, 2026

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2026/01/30

Listen to current week’s news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.Ahead of a crucial national election in Thailand, Catholic bishops have urged people to remain vigilant against fraud and corruption. 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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00:05:57

Homilies: Third Sunday of the Year (A) Jan. 25, 2026

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2026/01/24

The Church that follows Jesus must be as willing to subordinate everything else to the proclamation of God's love. If that means downplaying or even abandoning certain ways of doing things, so be it. If it means not looking for institutional results, no problem.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,

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00:11:06

UCA News Weekly Summary, January 23, 2026

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2026/01/23

Listen to current week’s news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.Church leaders in Indonesia’s Christian-majority Papua have criticized the ‘excessive military’ presence in the region, terming it a flawed state policy to counter insurgency. 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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00:06:18

Homilies: Second Sunday of the Year (A) Jan. 18, 2026

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2026/01/17

Spirituality is not so much a matter of prayer as of awareness, about sensitivity in ordinary time to the ordinary events and people around me. Christ is there among them as he was among the events and people of Israel two thousand years ago.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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00:09:29

UCA News Weekly Summary, January 16, 2026

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2026/01/16

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.Cambodian girls as young as 14 are being trafficked to China for forced marriages, a trade fueled by its decades-long one-child policy. 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

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00:06:42

Homilies: Baptism of the Lord (A) Jan. 11, 2026

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2026/01/10

In today's reading from the Acts of the Apostles, Peter tells the crowd what they can expect of fish people, followers of Christ who "went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil." We should do likewise.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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00:10:18

UCA News Weekly Summary, January 9, 2026

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2026/01/09

Listen to news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 minutes.Christian clergy joined civil rights activists in a public demonstration in Sri Lanka to denounce the US kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. 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

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00:06:01

Homilies: Epiphany (A) Jan. 4, 2026

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2026/01/03

On Epiphany, we thank God for the gift of Jesus Christ, a gift given to all of us throughout the world, throughout time. Like the wise astrologers, we respond by bringing our gifts to the Lord: our ways of praying, our ways of singing, our ways of thinking, our ways of acting. 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

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00:05:38

Homilies: Mary Mother of God Jan. 1, 2026

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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