To capacitate community resilience, PSE Caritas Maumere Diocese in Flores, Indonesia, held a workshop for Mount Lewotobi eruption survivors on August 11, 2025, at Talibura, Sikka.
On August 10, senior Indian journalist Jose Kalathil received the Sargapeedam 2023 award. Kalathil, a Delhi-based journalist, has decades of experience working in India and abroad.
In commemoration of National Minority Day, the Dominican-run Peace Center in Lahore, Pakistan, together with the Christian Care Foundation, organized a conference on the theme “Celebration of Independence Day and the Role of Minorities in the Founding of Pakistan” on August 11.
During a special seminar on August 9 marking National Minority Day in Pakistan, Catholic social activist Asher Nazir was honored with the Peace and Interfaith Harmony Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to peacebuilding and interfaith dialogue.
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma has urged Union Home Minister Amit Shah to grant either Indian citizenship or a 10-year visa to an 80-year-old Catholic priest serving in Nongstoin, West Khasi Hills district.
The clergy of the Archdiocese of Karachi, Pakistan, celebrated the Jubilee for Priests at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on August 4. The occasion also coincided with the feast of St. Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney (1786–1859), the French Catholic priest who is the patron of priests.
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) expressed its deep anguish and strongly condemned the shocking mob attack on two Catholic priests and a catechist in Jaleswar in the Balasore diocese, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, on August 6, 2025.
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Sri Lanka (CBCSL) met with top government officials on August 7 to discuss sweeping education reforms set for 2026. The meeting, held at the Colombo Archdiocese’s official residence, was attended by CBCSL President Bishop Harold Anthony Perera, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, and bishops from across the country.
