The Society of Jesus, better known as the Jesuits, marked a “day of remembrance” on June 25 to reflect on and pray for their confreres who died of the coronavirus disease.
Cardinal Jose Advincula, new archbishop of Manila, led Church leaders in offering prayers for the country’s former president, Benigno Aquino III, who died on June 24.
Detained Indian Jesuit priest Stanislaus Lourduswamy, known as Stan Swamy, has been granted an extended hospital stay by the Bombay High Court on June 17.
There was a notable increase in the number of churches under military attack in Myanmar in recent weeks, said reports from communities and independent media organizations.
Thousands of people continue to sleep in temporary tarpaulin shelters without food in eastern India almost a month after Cyclone Yaas destroyed their homes and stored food grains.
Pope Francis on Wednesday appointed Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle as a new member of the Vatican body that supports the Eastern Catholic churches throughout the world.
A Catholic Church has been repeatedly hit by artillery shells on June 6, Corpus Christi Sunday, as Myanmar’s military continued its offensive in the eastern part of the country’s Kayah State.
The High Court in Lahore, Pakistan, acquitted on Thursday, June 3, a Christian couple who were earlier sentenced to death under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws.
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Myanmar’s highest Catholic Church official, expressed “immense sorrow and pain” over the attack on churches in the country this week that resulted in the death of civilians.
Military operations against civilian resistance fighters in the village of Kayan Tharyar near Loikaw hit a Catholic church and killed at least four people, said a report reaching Radio Veritas Asia.