In an order issued on March 10, the Regional Trial Court in Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro, allowed the deferment of more than 500,000 pesos (about US$9,000) in filing fees that had previously been required from the petitioners.
“Communio,” a missionary initiative of the Latin-Rite Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), urged young religious nuns to commit to the work of the Church in the country.
In a historic gesture coinciding with Pope Francis’s Apostolic Visit to Indonesia, the Indonesian Bishops’ Conference (KWI), in collaboration with PT Pos Indonesia, has unveiled a special stamp themed "Pope Francis’s Visit to Indonesia."
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 Conference of Religious India (CRI) Goa unit hosted a pivotal study weekend on August 24-25, 2024, at the St. Joseph Vaz Spiritual Renewal Centre in Old Goa, India.
The Mystery of Life Awards of the Archdiocese of Seoul in South Korea has been opened to international applicants for the very first time since it was first awarded in 2005.
Pope Francis is set to make a historic visit to Indonesia as part of his apostolic journey through Southeast Asia and the Pacific from September 2 to 13, 2024.
On August 28, Pakistan Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif appointed Sr. Genevieve Ram Lal (Mariam Parveen), as a member of the National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) for three years.
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.
The Catholic Church in Northeast India set the preparation for the Jubilee Year 2025 in motion by revisiting ‘Ecclesia in Asia’ an apostolic exhortation issued by Saint Pope John Paul II in 1999 at the annual Regional Pastoral Conference that began on August 26, 2024, at Jubilee Memorial Hall of North East Diocesan Social Service Society, Guwahati, Assam.
The "Conference on Prayer," held in the Philippines at the Sta. Rosa Multi-Purpose Complex, City of Santa Rosa, this August 31, 2024, is one of the pivotal events for this coming Year of Prayer.
Earlier this month (August), the Parish Integral Human Development Ministry (PIHD) of the Church of the Divine Mercy in the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, celebrated the completion of a 10-week basic sign language course.
The Supreme Committee of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), a global network of prayer and charity at the pope's service, has appointed Oblate Archbishop Bejoy Nicephorus D'Cruze as a member.
