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.
Two South Korean Missionaries arrested in Nepal in September are still in prison on charges of illegal conversion activities which the local Church says are unfounded.
For the incoming bishop of Hong Kong, the animal from the African savannah has significant symbolic value, so much so that he decided to feature the tallest living animal in his episcopal coat of arms.
Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore, leader of the Christian community in Karnataka, on October 25 reiterated his opposition to a government move to introduce a bill to ban “forcible religious” in the southern Indian state.
The Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Good and Perpetual Succour (BPS)-Philippine mission, joined “A million children praying Rosary” for peace and unity in response to the Catholic organization, the Church in Need (ACN) as part of the worldwide campaign of prayer to defeat evil in our society
Archbishop Girelli, Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal, conferred the Pallium on the Metropolitan Archbishop Sebastian Kallupura of Patna, at the St. Joseph's pro-Cathedral on October 23.
Rightwing Hindu activists on October 25 served a 15-day ultimatum to Catholic school in the central Indian state Madhya Pradesh state to install in the campus an idol of Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge.
Cardinal Jose Advincula of Manila has called on the people to take part in the synodal process “no matter what your social, political, and economic, intellectual, or spiritual affiliation of our status is.”
A war-like situation did not stop Catholics in Myanmar to inaugurate the synodal journey on October 17. But the faithful in Myanmar’s Chin State could not join the online service of the opening ceremony of the synodal process.
Catholic children in the archdiocese of Yangon and diocese of Mawlamyaine took part in the ‘One Million Children Praying the Rosary’ Campaign on October 18. Missionary Childhood Association in Myanmar led the rosary campaign focusing on worldwide unity and peace.
In the wake of Iraq’s parliamentary elections, the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch urges Iraqi politicians to be rational and calm tensions in order to break the political gridlock as parties jockey for influence.
Three Kachin Baptist pastors facing a lawsuit for organizing prayers for peace were among more than 5,000 prisoners freed in Myanmar under a general amnesty granted to more than 5,000 political prisoners.