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May 22, 2017

Outside cities, Chinese grandparents pass on faith to their grandchildren

A girl looks at a Bible during Mass in 2016 at a Beijing cathedral. As young people move to cities, Catholic grandparents in rural areas are passing on the faith to their grandchildren.

HONG KONG – Every evening, no matter how busy or tired she may be, Yiu reads the Bible at home to her 7-year-old granddaughter. Sometimes, parishioners from Changzhi Diocese in north-central China's Shanxi province, come and join her, reports ucanews.com.

Published in International
October 8, 2016

Grandparents are becoming more involved with their children's children

Mary and Michael Johnson with five of their six grandchildren. The Johnsons spend as much time as they can with their grandchildren, seeing it as an opportunity to help out as their children try to get by in the world.

The death knell for the nuclear family continues to ring out in a new compilation of statistics from the Vanier Institute of the Family. But the good news is that grandparents are more involved than ever in raising their grandchildren and helping out their extended families.

Published in Faith