In a heartfelt gesture of respect and unity, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Thiru M.K. Stalin paid tribute to the late Pope Francis during a solemn memorial service held at Loyola College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on April 30.
The Vatican, the world’s smallest state, began its COVID-19 vaccination program this week, prioritizing doctors, health workers, and the most vulnerable
Pope Francis lambasted the “inefficiencies in the care of the sick” that have become more pronounced last year at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
German missionary priest Franz-Josef Eilers, a respected leader in the field of social and pastoral communication in the Catholic Church, died in the Philippines on Jan. 13. He was 88.
Pope Francis, in another step toward greater equality for women in the Catholic Church, issued a decree allowing women to serve as readers at liturgies, altar servers, and distributors of communion.
A group of Indian Christians have warned against what they described as a “propaganda operation” that might “polarize society along ethno-religious lines.”
Despite health warnings, hundreds of thousands of Filipino Catholics went out of their homes in Manila on Jan. 9, to venerate a centuries-old wooden statue of the Black Nazarene.
Several of the sisters, popularly known as the Shanti Rani Sisters, marked their golden and silver anniversaries. Others took their final professions while new nuns took their first vows.
The head of the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines called on the country’s police officers to be “true” to the service and to face criminality not just with courage but also with faith.
Jesuit seminarians in Taunggyi, Myanmar, welcomed the new year by spending time with orphans and persons with disabilities at the Infant Jesus' Home in Shan State.
Hundreds of Pakistani Christian families fled a Lahore neighborhood ahead of Christmas after a mob of Muslims threatened to set fire to their homes, an international Christian group has reported.
