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The new specter for Bangladesh is dengue fever, raising this year's death toll from the mosquito-borne disease to 110.

In Cavite, south of the city of Manila - the capital of the Philippines, local parishioners meet to discuss the life of their local church, its mission, outreach, and hopes for the future. They meet, share, and discuss, in a common journey of synodality, one of many similar gatherings taking place around the world now leading to the global 2023 Synod on synodality.

The student movement in South India called “Together We Can” provides support and gives new vitality to marginalized communities in the region.

"The Church has a sense of compassion and humanity; we all unite to pray for our brothers and sisters who have perished, as well as those who are still unwell and their families,” said Father Caesario.

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The book is the result of scholars from Asia and other places working together to show the different ideas, approaches, and models that the Church used to communicate during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how this experience helps to inform the communication work of the Church in the future.

On October 19, a group of religious leaders of different religions held a workshop on preventing violent extremism in Rajshahi City, in the northern part of Bangladesh,

Sister Mary Angelika, an Apostolic Carmelite nun, received the "Guru Prathiba Prabha" award in the category of Principals at the National Teachers & Principals Appreciation ceremony, which is hosted by the Ministry of Education in Sri Lanka

A Pakistani Christian shooter Gulfam Joseph qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

At least five people died and another 60,000 people have been affected following heavy rainfall that battered Sri Lanka over the weekend.

Dr. Tasneem Ahsan is the first Pakistani to win the Laureate Award, among others, given by the Endocrine Society of America for her outstanding services.

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​​​​​​​The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation (RMAF) welcomes Suzanne E. Siskel as the newest member of its Board of Trustees.

The General Conference to mark the 50th anniversary of its foundation will be held on October 12-30, 2022 at the Pastoral Center of the Archdiocese of Bangkok, Baan Phu Waan, Thailand, with the theme “FABC 50: Journeying together as peoples of Asia”, and the biblical leitmotif, “… and they went a different way” (Mt 2:12).

Bangladesh's ethnic minorities' rights are to be promoted and protected together with their habitats by a strong movement, say Human rights activists.

Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, appointed member of the Dicastery for Evangelization and Cardinal Anthony Poola as a member of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, by Pope Francis on October 7.

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Film Festival aims at promoting the process of mutual awareness and to delve deeper into respect for human dignity.

Dominican theologian Father Rodel C. Aligan told participants of a Truth Conference on October 5 that “evil is parasitic on the good and must survive by twisting things that are good in themselves;” it has to come across as truth, but a truth that is told, “in the wrong way, at the wrong time, or in the wrong context,” spreading confusion through fake news and disinformation.

Either way, this “underhanded” tactic effectively , the priest added.

Author and lecturer Father Jose Francisco Syquia said dangerous as it is, modern technologies are promising versions of redemption, and even spirituality, that is devoid of God and His providence.
This is just one tactic employed by the evil one to separate man from his God.