The decades-long activism of these physicians has contributed to the implementation of the universal health coverage (UHC) in Thailand in 2002, benefiting the country’s rural communities as a result.
After long years of service with the Society of the Divine Word (SVD), Brother Valentin Gruener passed away on September 14 at a hospital in Abra, a province more than 400 kilometers south of Manila.
Franciscan sisters, priests, brothers, and volunteers collected and disposed of sacks of trash strewn around a seaside of Cordova, the only town on Mactan island in Cebu, on August 31.
Prelates from the Federation of Asian Bishops Conference, Latin American Bishops Council, and Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar have gathered to identify common pastoral issues and a manner for cooperation in a synodal approach in Luxembourg on August 28-29.
The Catholic leaders in India have expressed approval for the high court's decision to junk the request for the mercy killing of a patient in a vegetative state for 11 years.
