One of the most alarming human rights violations in Bangladesh during 2025 was mob violence and killings. According to Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK), a national legal aid and human rights organization, at least 197 people were killed in mob attacks between January and December 2025. In 2024, the number was 128.
Bishop Niranjan Sualsingh of Sambalpur, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, has appealed to the faithful to unite in prayer for a diocesan priest who was arrested following a motorcycle accident.
A local government in Indonesia has named a street in Semarang, the capital of Central Java Province, “Yusuf Bilyarta (YB) Mangunwijaya Street” after a Catholic priest, in recognition of his work among the poor and marginalized.
On July 25, Father Francis D'Britto, an esteemed Indian Catholic priest, social worker, environmental activist, and Marathi writer, passed away after a prolonged illness at the age of 81.
A Catholic priest in India’s Tamil Nadu state was arrested by authorities on July 24 for reportedly spreading hate and enmity between religious groups.
The priest is founder director of Christ Educational Foundation and is currently the director of Rajkot’s Christ Hospital, the first COVID-19 healthcare institution in Gujarat.
The New Delhi-based Institute of Harmony and Peace Studies (IHPS), which is headed by a Catholic priest, has been selected for a UN award sponsored by King Abdullah II of Jordan.
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.
Father Teresito “Chito” Soganub, the priest who was abducted by terrorist gunmen in the southern Philippine city of Marawi in 2017, died on Wednesday, July 22, due to cardiac arrest.
