A Catholic nurse has become the first recipient of the COVID-19 vaccine in Bangladesh as the government officially started inoculations in the capital Dhaka on January 27.
Right-wing Hindu activists have attacked a prayer gathering inside a Catholic media center in central India after accusing the center of conducting illegal religious conversions.
Jailed Indian priest Stanislaus Lourduswamy, popularly known as Stan Swamy, has written a letter expressing gratitude to his supporters while additionally conveying concern over circumstances faced by his fellow inmates awaiting trial.
Tamil Catholics and Hindus in Sri Lanka recently held a joint celebration of the Thai Pongal, a traditional Tamil cultural festival dedicated to the harvest and the sun.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not intervene in the case of Jesuit priest Stanislaus Lourduswamy, popularly known as Stan Swamy, who is facing terrorism-related charges.
Minority leaders including a Catholic Church official have welcomed a decision by Bangladeshi police to censor popular Islamic gatherings in order to stop radical clerics from delivering inflammatory and indecent speeches.
The social action arm of the Catholic Church in Bangladesh’s Dinajpur region has named a new regional director in the person of Ronjon John Paul Rozario.
A peace group in Myanmar called for a stop to what it described as “intensifying artillery attacks” by the Myanmar Tatmadaw or Myanmar Army in Papun and Nyaunglebin districts in the northern Karen State.
Didroy Joneh was entrusted to oversee all affairs of Kekitaan FM, the online Catholic radio station of the Diocese of Keningau in the northern Malaysian state of Sabah, when it was launched on Oct. 3 last year.
Three Indian cardinals have met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to apprise him of several Christian concerns and to urge him to invite Pope Francis to India.
A group of minority rights organizations, academics and educational institutions have delivered a letter to Pakistan’s Education Ministry seeking transparent, inclusive and historically informed consultation about the country’s new education policy.
Thailand’s bishops are urging Catholics to make known their opposition to a proposed amendment that would permit women up to 12 weeks pregnant to have an abortion.
Caritas, the social action arm of the Catholic Church, has launched relief efforts to help thousands of Rohingya refugees in a Bangladeshi camp that was razed by fire last week.
Pope Francis said he is saddened to learn of the tragic loss of life and of the destruction caused by the violent earthquake that has struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi
The prevailing coronavirus pandemic has limited attendance to annual popular Marian pilgrimage in Bangladesh that was held in the Diocese of Rajshahi on January 16.
