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The Diocese of Miao, a young mission diocese in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, concluded the Jubilee Year 2025 with a solemn Mass followed by a grand Eucharistic procession on December 28, 2025.

On May 14 and 17, Bishop Anthony Adoun Hongsaphong, Apostolic Vicar of Vientiane in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos PDR), along with his delegation, attended the funeral ceremonies to pay their respects and offer a message of condolence on the occasion of the cremation of the Venerable Maha Bounma Simmaphom Maha Thera, former President of the Central Buddhist Fellowship of Lao PDR.

In a remarkable gesture of interreligious solidarity, His Eminence Dr. Yon Seng Yeath, the highest representative of His Holiness Samdech Preah Agga Maha Sangharajadhipati Nun Nget, the Great Supreme Patriarch of the Kingdom of Cambodia, led a delegation of 42 Buddhist monks to offer prayers for the late Pope Francis at the Phnom Penh Vicariate Pastoral Center.

We need to work together to address the pressing issues in the “broken world,” said Pope Francis.

The Day of Buddha commemorates the birth, enlightenment (nirvana, likened to an experience of heaven), and death of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism.

A Buddhist nun visited a Catholic nun in Jakarta, Indonesia, exchanging their respective lives as ‘missionaries.’

Father Richard Hla Min Oo said Buddhist monk Ashin Nyanasiri, who was doing his masters degree at Sitagu International Buddhist Academy, asked for help in the translation of his thesis.

Myanmar’s prominent Buddhist monk, Ashin Nyanissara, also known as Sitagu Sayadaw, made a contribution of US$10,000 to the emergency fund that Pope Francis created for people and communities affected by coronavirus pandemic.