The Mandarin Service of Radio Veritas Asia organized “RVA Mandarin Day 2025” on August 17 with the theme “Being a Pilgrim of Hope Even in a Foreign Land.”
Pope Leo XIV paid a private visit on August 19 to the Shrine of Our Lady of Mentorella, also known as the Mother of Graces, near Rome, highlighting once again his deep devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Sr. Lismy, a member of the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel (CMC), popularly known as the “Camera Nun,” has been selected for the prestigious James Alberione Award for her pioneering contributions to media ministry.
Father René Marcel Joseph Nicolas of the Paris Foreign Missions Society (MEP), a French missionary who devoted nearly seven decades to priestly service in Asia, passed away on July 28 at Saint Theresa’s Home in Singapore. He was 95.
For nearly two weeks, villagers in Mannar, northern Sri Lanka, have staged continuous protests demanding the suspension of the second phase of a 50 MW wind energy project, AsiaNews reported.
Filipino Catholics in the United States marked a milestone with the inauguration of the Poong Nazareno Filipino Catholic Center in Anaheim, in the state of California, the first center of its kind in the country, Aleteia reported.
Amid the ongoing war in Gaza and continuing violence across the Holy Land, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa urged Christians to cling to hope, stressing that the power of evil can never overcome life rooted in Christ.
More than a thousand Christians from across denominations took part in a peaceful protest march in Hazaribag Diocese, in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, on August 17 under the banner of the One in Christ Committee.
The Catholic Diocese of Mangalore has strongly condemned attempts to drag Christians into the controversy surrounding the shocking revelations of mass burials allegedly linked to the famed Dharmasthala temple in Karnataka, AsiaNews reported.
Qaraqosh, Iraq’s largest Christian city, will soon be home to a new Marian shrine dedicated to Mary, Mother of Persecuted Christians, the first of its kind in the Middle East.
