Pope Francis will visit the Asian countries of Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and Singapore, as well as Papua New Guinea in Oceania, from September 2 to 13 this year.
Myanmar people have come together to serve the future generation as schools are permanently closed due to a military coup on February 1, 2021 amid a raging Covid-19 pandemic.
A noted writer and human rights activist Cedric Prakash will receive the Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA) respected journalism award for his courageous writing.
An Indian nun has won the Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA)-Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) Award for best reportage on Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST).
Six priests are infected with Covid-19 out of eighteen residing at the priest's center in Myanmar's Myitkyina diocese. The clergy house is temporally lockdown from the last week of October 2021.
While Catholics worldwide go to the cemeteries to pray for their dear departed on November 2, Nepali Christians adhere to a different way of revering their dead in a 'columbaria.'
According to local media reports in India, the Karnataka government has put on hold a proposal to survey official and unofficial churches and 'Bible societies'. The government is waiting for the verdict of the state High Court on a public interest suit filed in this regard.
A Bangladeshi Cardinal called on pilgrims at a Marian shrine "to do whatever it takes to unite the society," calling such actions "a pilgrimage of life."