Elections are often a season of grand promises—when the heavens and the earth are offered to voters. Candidates traverse the nation, vowing solutions for even the smallest of worries. Fulfilling these promises, of course, is another matter. But it is a tradition that has endured.
The Indonesian Minister of Religion, Yaqut Cholil Qoumas held a meeting with seven archbishops and 15 bishops from various dioceses in Indonesia at the Catholic Center of Ambonia Diocese, Maluku Province.
An archbishop from the southern Indian state of Karnataka has come out with a strong statement following an ongoing controversy about a Christian school 'forcing students to buy Bibles and take them to class.'
The Federation of Associations of Catholic Archdiocese of Delhi organized a memorial meeting to mark the 85th birth anniversary of the Indian Jesuit Father Stanislaus Lourduswamy, on April 26, 2022.
A Franciscan congregation of nuns in Indonesia organized training for leaders of organizations involved in programs of children-women protection and human trafficking on April 23, 2022.
Pope Francis meets a delegation of the victims of Sri Lanka’s Easter bombing, along with Sri Lankan Catholics working in Italy, and calls for authorities to reveal the truth behind the 2019 attacks.
A diocese in southwestern Myanmar released a pastoral letter calling on priests, nuns, and Catholics to promote vocations to the priesthood and religious life on April 21, 2022.
An Indian priest in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has been washing the feet of marginalized people including women for the last 30 years on Maundy Thursday.
The central Philippine archdiocese of Cebu has approved the creation of a service center in every parish that will cater to the concerns of the parishioners, especially the poor.
The episcopal ordination of Msgr Maurice Nyunt Wai as the Coadjutor of Myanmar, Mawlamyine Diocese took place in the Holy Family Cathedral of Mawlamyine, Mon State, Myanmar on April 24, 2022.
A Catholic priest in South India washed the feet of a Muslim, women among others, to promote interreligious harmony at the Maundy Thursday ceremony, April 14, 2022.
The bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Manila released a pastoral letter for May 9, 2022 election with the title “Narito ang inyong Ina” (Here is your mother) (Jn. 19:17).
An Asian bishops’ institute—Veritas Asia Institute for Social Communication (VAISCOM)—will hold an online forum on truth and discipleship 6-8 in the evening Manila time on May 6, 2022.
