Elections are often a season of grand promises—when the heavens and the earth are offered to voters. Candidates traverse the nation, vowing solutions for even the smallest of worries. Fulfilling these promises, of course, is another matter. But it is a tradition that has endured.
In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, the 24th meeting of the Episcopal Regional Liturgy Commission (ERLC) was a hybrid event, both in-person and virtual, from June 6 to 9, 2022.
Father Valentinus Saeng, CP, has been chosen by Pope Francis to replace Bishop Julius Menccucini, CP, as the new Bishop of the Sanggau Diocese in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition (SJA) celebrated 175 years jubilee at St. Patrick Church, Mawlamyine, southern Myanmar on June 17, the feast day of the patron saint of the congregation.
Pope Francis receives a delegation of Buddhists from Thailand and reiterates Pope St. Paul VI’s feelings of profound regard for the spiritual, moral and socio-cultural treasures of the Buddhist tradition.
A human rights group based in New Delhi on June 16 submitted a memorandum to the federal minister demanding to set up national and state redressal commissions on anti-minority (religious) violence in India.
The Institute of Formation Fondacio Asia (IFFAsia) has completed the four-month (February-June) online formation program for young Catholic people from different countries in Asia.
It has been two years since the Kalay diocese could not run the Assumption Intermediate Seminary due to Covid-19 and the current political situation in Myanmar.
Bishop Justin Bernard Gnanapragasam of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, blessed and inaugurated the renovated St. Antony’s Church at Urani Palali on May 30, after 13 years it was destroyed in a civil war.
A hunter became the father of two Catholic priests. He is the first Zo tribe community to reach this rare privilege and the second in Manipur state of northeast India.
Twenty international novices—13 from Indonesia and seven from Vietnam—made their first religious vows in the Franciscan Daughters of Saint Elisabeth congregation on June 13.
