The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Pakistan (CBCP) praised the country’s National Assembly for its approval of raising the minimum legal age for Christian marriage to 18 years old.
The head of the Episcopal Commission on Migrants and Itinerant People of the Philippine bishops’ conference called on Filipinos in Myanmar to take care as political tension continues to rise in the country.
Sri Lanka’s government is aggressively attacking efforts to hold officials to account for past grave abuses, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a new report.
A human rights organization warned this week World Health Organization investigators probing the origins of the coronavirus in China might not be able to get access to government critics.
Countries in Southeast Asia gave a tepid response to a coup in Myanmar on Monday, with no nation coming forward to condemn the military’s seizure of power, amid a general erosion of democracy in the region.
Christian groups held a demonstration in Madhupur, in the Division of Tangail in Bangladesh, to protest the displacement of indigenous peoples from their ancestral lands.
About 2,000 people from 12 villages in Myanmar called for an end to conflict in their areas during a demonstration in Doo Tha Htu District, Mon State, on January 24.
A Catholic nurse has become the first recipient of the COVID-19 vaccine in Bangladesh as the government officially started inoculations in the capital Dhaka on January 27.
Right-wing Hindu activists have attacked a prayer gathering inside a Catholic media center in central India after accusing the center of conducting illegal religious conversions.
Jailed Indian priest Stanislaus Lourduswamy, popularly known as Stan Swamy, has written a letter expressing gratitude to his supporters while additionally conveying concern over circumstances faced by his fellow inmates awaiting trial.
Tamil Catholics and Hindus in Sri Lanka recently held a joint celebration of the Thai Pongal, a traditional Tamil cultural festival dedicated to the harvest and the sun.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not intervene in the case of Jesuit priest Stanislaus Lourduswamy, popularly known as Stan Swamy, who is facing terrorism-related charges.
Minority leaders including a Catholic Church official have welcomed a decision by Bangladeshi police to censor popular Islamic gatherings in order to stop radical clerics from delivering inflammatory and indecent speeches.
The social action arm of the Catholic Church in Bangladesh’s Dinajpur region has named a new regional director in the person of Ronjon John Paul Rozario.
A peace group in Myanmar called for a stop to what it described as “intensifying artillery attacks” by the Myanmar Tatmadaw or Myanmar Army in Papun and Nyaunglebin districts in the northern Karen State.