On the radiant morning of June 27, 2025, inside the resplendent grandeur of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, history was made for Papua New Guinea.
The High Court in Lahore, Pakistan, acquitted on Thursday, June 3, a Christian couple who were earlier sentenced to death under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws.
The Vatican has released on Tuesday, June 1, major revisions to the Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law, including sanctions related to clergy sex abuse cases.
The Bombay High Court has ordered prison authorities on Friday, May 28, to immediately transfer detained Jesuit priest Stanislaus Lourduswamy, known as Stan Swamy, to a private hospital.
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Myanmar’s highest Catholic Church official, expressed “immense sorrow and pain” over the attack on churches in the country this week that resulted in the death of civilians.
Military operations against civilian resistance fighters in the village of Kayan Tharyar near Loikaw hit a Catholic church and killed at least four people, said a report reaching Radio Veritas Asia.
Oblate priest Eliseo “Jun” Mercado Jr., known for his peace advocacy especially in the southern Philippines, succumbed to complications from COVID-19 in Cotabato City Sunday, May 23. He was 72.
