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A hunter became the father of two Catholic priests. He is the first Zo tribe community to reach this rare privilege and the second in Manipur state of northeast India.

Deacon Khamsan Mim Khounthichak was ordained a priest on his sickbed by Bishop Rolando Santos in Manila on June 13, the feast of St Anthony of Padua.

Twenty international novices—13 from Indonesia and seven from Vietnam—made their first religious vows in the Franciscan Daughters of Saint Elisabeth congregation on June 13.

An official of the Catholic Church in Macau says the church should fight against a secular-led wave of abortion and euthanasia in the former Portuguese colony.

Indian social activist Father Stan Swamy was posthumously honored with the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders 2022 on June 2, in Geneva, Switzerland.

The North East Diocesan Social Forum (NEDSSS) and Caritas India zonal office at Guwahati, Assam state, organized a joint conference on June 10 to identify areas to combat human trafficking in northeast India.

Bangladesh’s most popular Catholic pilgrimage was held at the feast of Saint Anthony de Padua at Mohipara Parish in the northern part of Bangladesh on June 13. 

Nearly 500 Catholic children of St Mary’s Cathedral, Mariayapuram received school supplies for the academic year 2022.

The president-elect assured me of his desire to collaborate, cooperate closely with the church and Holy See.

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Myanmar (CBCM) is “unhappy with the present situation of the country.”

The United Christian Forum (UCF) has demanded urgent judicial and government intervention to check the rapid rise in incidents of violence, coercion and false arrests, traumatizing the Christian community in India.

A provincial government in Central Philippines on June 12 honored a Catholic priest for his contribution to music and literature. 

Child Labour is child abuse, says an Indian-based center for human rights, Montfort Social Institute (MSI).

A deacon from Laos who is currently very ill is set to be an ordained priest in the hospital on June 13.

An Indian Catholic couple, along with their three children, has been commissioned to be missionaries to Malawi, southeast Africa.

After touring the Vatican's Catacombs, Al Makin, an Indonesian Muslim scholar, spoke on the importance of promoting Pieta's work and bringing all faith adherents together as brethren through a visit to St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.

Caritas Bangladesh, the social action of Catholic bishops in the country, held a workshop on indigenous migrant workers in Dhaka on June 8, 2022.

Episcopal Commission for Liturgy and Prayer (EC-LP) in the archdiocese of Dhaka held a national seminar for active participation with liturgical hymns for Catholics from June 3 to 8. 

A Catholic woman has been appointed as the new vice-chancellor of Bangalore University in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

Father John Felix Raj, vice-chancellor of St. Xavier's University, Kolkata (SXUK) received the “ABP Ananda Shiksha Ratna” (joyful education jewel) award 2022 given by India's leading Hindi News Channel, ABP News on June 10.