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In Kota Kinabalu where even the deaf hear the Good News
The service is offered by a group of volunteers through sign language translated hymns, readings, Gospel and homily. With over 20 years, the initiative allows more than 80 deaf people, especially children, to attend Mass every Sunday.
In the Archdiocese of Kota Kinabalu (Sabah Region - East Malaysia) also deaf "hear" the Good News. Every Sunday in the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart Mass is in fact run by a volunteer group that uses sign language to those who can not even listen, songs, readings, Gospel and homily. Organized by the local Catholic community of deaf people, the service is active for over 20 years and aims to help deaf and dumb to attend the Sunday mass.
"The translation is extremely fast," says Irene Gubud, 38, deaf, who eight years he attended the cathedral. It adds that only deaf parishioners can understand if the translation quality is good, especially in cases where the priest uses a complex language. Then the second woman volunteers are well trained.
Thanks to this initiative are about 80 deaf people who go to Mass every Sunday. Many of them are children who live far from towns and villages to the cathedral with the shuttle bus provided by the parish.
A parishioner called Maria, said to AsiaNews that "for my son's initiative was crucial to monitor the mass. In another church that offers the same service, the translation was not good gestures and the child could not
understand. "In the cathedral - still - the signs are easier to follow and my son now understand the Mass and homily."
In the region of Sabah, the Christian community represents about 30% of the population.
The service is offered by a group of volunteers through sign language translated hymns, readings, Gospel and homily. With over 20 years, the initiative allows more than 80 deaf people, especially children, to attend Mass every Sunday.
In the Archdiocese of Kota Kinabalu (Sabah Region - East Malaysia) also deaf "hear" the Good News. Every Sunday in the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart Mass is in fact run by a volunteer group that uses sign language to those who can not even listen, songs, readings, Gospel and homily. Organized by the local Catholic community of deaf people, the service is active for over 20 years and aims to help deaf and dumb to attend the Sunday mass.
"The translation is extremely fast," says Irene Gubud, 38, deaf, who eight years he attended the cathedral. It adds that only deaf parishioners can understand if the translation quality is good, especially in cases where the priest uses a complex language. Then the second woman volunteers are well trained.
Thanks to this initiative are about 80 deaf people who go to Mass every Sunday. Many of them are children who live far from towns and villages to the cathedral with the shuttle bus provided by the parish.
A parishioner called Maria, said to AsiaNews that "for my son's initiative was crucial to monitor the mass. In another church that offers the same service, the translation was not good gestures and the child could not
understand. "In the cathedral - still - the signs are easier to follow and my son now understand the Mass and homily."
In the region of Sabah, the Christian community represents about 30% of the population.