The two-year Basic Training for Catechists (BTC) in four languages—Bengali, Hindi, Santhali, and Nepali—concluded with phase II catechist training in Nepali.
The Synod of the Syro-Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church, gathered at Mount St. Thomas, Kerala, having received prior Papal Assent, canonically elected three new bishops.
The Catholic Church thanked and honoured the apostolic nuncio Archbishop George Kocherry for his dedicated pastoral service to the local Church in the country.
Ma. Clarissa "Ilsa" B. Reyes was a sought-after speaker and facilitator who preached retreats, recollections, and workshops in various schools, colleges, and parishes around the Philippines.
The Church of Hong Kong offers its contribution in a spirit of communion to the synodal journey of the universal Church in preparation for the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (2021-2023)
"Seminary formation is sacred, and we must never forget what we have learned in the seminary," says Archbishop Christophe Zakhia El-Kassis, Apostolic Nuncio to Pakistan
It was more convenient for Catholics to celebrate the feast on August 13 (Saturday) than on Monday (August 15), said Father Richard Rai, the parish priest of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral.
The keynote speaker will be Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, prefect of Propaganda Fide (also known as the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples).
Paolo Ruffini, the Prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, addresses this year's SIGNIS World Congress in Seoul, recalling that "the only way to respond to the challenge of technology is not to think of it as an idol."
Catholic youth are called to a mission of healing and renewal of life, says Father Qaisar Feroz (OFM Cap), national chaplain of the Jesus Youth International in Pakistan.