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 Church’s social arm Karuna (Caritas) Myanmar has stepped in to provide humanitarian aid as thousands of civilians have been displaced as a result of intense fighting in Myanmar’s Kachin state.
Pope Francis appointed Bishop Shorot Francis Gomes, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Dhaka, as the new bishop of the Diocese of Sylhet on Wednesday, May 12.
The Catholic Church in India has offered 60,000 hospital beds and other facilities for the use of COVID-19 patients amid the continuing surge of infections in the country.
The Salesians of Don Bosco is among religious congregations in India that have been in the forefront in responding to the needs of the most vulnerable during the pandemic.
India's longest serving bishop, Philipose Mar Christostom, bishop emeritus of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, passed away on May 5. He was 103 years old on April 27.
The Catholic Church in Cambodia through its social action arm Caritas provided food packs to fisherfolk living along the Mekong River in Phnom Penh on May 5.
Catholic faithful in the Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Bonpara in northwestern Bangladesh joined Pope Francis in the recitation of the Holy Rosary for an end to the coronavirus pandemic.
Authorities in Myanmar arrested a group of young Christians who distributed food and other goods in urban poor communities most affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
A young Catholic from SiGao Correctional Institution in Hebei’s Handan Diocese and his teammates won this year’s curling event in China’s 11th Paralympic Games on April 28.
Prayers and offerings marked the celebration of the feast of St. Joseph the Worker at the Dhormohata village church under the Good Shepherd Cathedral Parish in Rajshahi diocese on May 1.
The Catholic Vicariate of Phnom Penh in Cambodia initiated the distribution of food supplies in areas most affected by the lockdown due to the prevailing coronavirus pandemic.
As the coronavirus pandemic worsens across India, a Catholic parish in the south Indian state of Kerala canceled a 211-year-old tradition of celebrating the feast of its patron saint.
