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.
An American missionary priest who spent 62 years of his life serving in Bangladesh died of the new coronavirus disease in the United States on July 26.
The Karen National Union (KNU) in Myanmar has called for an international investigation into the killing of an ethnic Karen woman allegedly by government soldiers in Mutraw District, Karen State.
Bishop John Hsane Hgyi, Catholic bishop of Pathein, paid a visit to quarantine centers located inside the Pathein University compound in Ayeyarwady Region in Myanmar on July 16.
Father Teresito “Chito” Soganub, the priest who was abducted by terrorist gunmen in the southern Philippine city of Marawi in 2017, died on Wednesday, July 22, due to cardiac arrest.
Asian lawmakers are among the more than 600 elected officials from 30 countries who have called on China’s communist rulers to immediately halt the “systematic and brutal campaign to ‘eradicate’ the spiritual discipline of Falun Gong.”
Nearly four million people in India’s northeastern state of Assam and neighboring Nepal have been displaced by heavy flooding from monsoon rains, with dozens missing as deaths rose to at least 189, government officials said on July 19.
Myanmar has failed to undertake meaningful reforms to bring its many rights-violating laws into compliance with international standards, Human Rights Watch said July 20 in a submission to the United Nations Human Rights (HRW) Council for Myanmar’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in January 2021.
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines warned the faithful of a “bleak political landscape” for the nation as the country’s new anti-terrorism law took into effect.
The Catholic Diocese of Myitkyina in the northern part of Myanmar has distributed food aid to poor families and those badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic in 25 parishes.
The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has released a 17-page document that will guide bishops on how to handle reports of sexual abuse of minors by members of the clergy.
A Vatican official called on the international community to combat poverty that causes hunger following the release of a United Nations report this week that noted a steady rise in the number of people who are going hungry.
Tribal groups in India are up in arms over a federal government decision to auction 41 coal blocks for commercial mining located in biodiversity-rich forest areas in central and eastern parts of the country.
