As India celebrated its 73rd Republic Day, thirty-four eminent Indian personalities wrote a joint open letter to Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai expressing their concern over the "frequent violence against religious minorities" in the state.
The past two months in Afghanistan have seen a 50% increase in cases of severe acute malnutrition among children. UNICEF warns that unless those children receive urgent aid they are at risk of dying.
Pope Francis met participants in the plenary assembly of the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life and thanked them for their service.
Pope Francis on Friday exhorted Christians to keep clear of a fake, commercial Christmas, polluted by consumerism and indifference. He made the remark to a group of 3 delegations who donated two Nativity Scenes and a Christmas tree to the Vatican this year.
On December 6, a right-wing Hindu group of an estimated 500 people attacked St. Joseph school in Ganj Basoda town, 100 kilometres from Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh in central India.
The killing of civilians by security forces in Nagaland state in Northeastern India has evoked widespread condemnation from several sections of society, including Church groups, students, and human rights activists across the country.
Pope Francis has encouraged young people suffering from addiction to take an honest look at their suffering, and courageously to invite Christ into their lives.
Catholics in Buddhist-majority Cambodia are celebrating the first-ever deacon from the Bunong ethnic minority, who are forest dwellers with a strong love for elephants.
In an interview with OSA, an Italian Social and Work Cooperative that provides social and health welfare services, the Pope offers his encouragement for the help it offers to many people living in darkness “to not to feel alone.”
Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas (61), sfx, the auxiliary bishop of Ranchi as the new Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Daltonganj in Jharkhand, India, on December 8.
Bishop Olivier Schmitthaeusler of Phnom Penh commended Catholic nuns serving Cambodian people for over twenty years and offered a blessing to “live more years like turtle.”
Archbishop Bejoy D'Cruze, OMI of Dhaka, spoke about the late Father Charles Young, who pioneered credit unions among the Bangladeshi people. Archbishop invites to follow the value of honesty promoted by Father Young during his life.
The conference promoted by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and other organizations is slated for 9 December. The event will gather experts to contribute to the global dialogue on new technologies in a post-Covid society in view of a better, more communal economic system.
Pope Francis meets young people from various parts of Greece on Monday morning in Athens, ahead of his departure for Rome, urging them to be truly social by engaging in real encounters with those around them as an experience of God's love.
Scientists at a university in Liverpool unveiled what they say is the most realistic portrait ever created of St. Nicholas of Myra, the popular 4th century bishop best known as the inspiration for the modern-day figure of Santa Claus.
