The Catholic Archdiocese of Bangkok has converted one of its schools into a 630-bed field hospital and isolation facility for COVID-19 patients as the Southeast Asian country continues to face record numbers of infections and deaths due to the pandemic.
Minority Christians in Indonesia’s Aceh province decried what they described as attacks on their places of worship and the refusal of authorities to allow the building of churches in the area.
The Syro-Malabar Catholic diocese in Kerala state has announced a family welfare scheme that offers financial assistance to couples who have five or more children.
In a message to the Medjugorje Youth Festival on Monday, Pope Francis told young Catholics that Christ’s loving gaze can free them from attraction to idols.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Jakarta has turned its pastoral center into an isolation ward for COVID-19 patients as the country battles a surge in coronavirus cases.
Archbishop Petrus Canisius Mandagi of Merauke in Papua, Indonesia, condemned the attack on a man with disability by two Air Force personnel on July 26.
The Catholic faithful in Cambodia paid tribute to Italian missionary priest Toni Vendramin on July 28, 2021, at St. Joseph Church (Psatouch) in Phnom Penh.
Catholics in India paid tribute to Father Stan Swamy, the Jesuit priest who died in detention early this month, by marking July 28 this year as “National Justice Day” in honor of the late priest.
