Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma will attend the funeral of Pope Francis at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City, an official confirmed on April 29, Tuesday.
Myanmar has banned travel from village to village in the country’s provinces, especially in the northern Bago and Tanintharyee Division, due to the continuing surge of COVID-19 cases.
The Catholic Church in Bangladesh honored the late Indian Jesuit priest, Stanislaus Lourduswamy, known as Stan Swamy, calling him a “gentle giant who walked miles” with indigenous peoples for 60 years.
Asia’s Catholic bishops have issued “suggestions” to celebrate the first “World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly” in a special newsletter released by the Office of Laity and Family of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences .
Catholics in Myanmar, including Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Yangon, expressed their gratitude to the Church in the Philippines for showing “solidarity” with the beleaguered country.
Bishop Shorot Francis Gomes, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Dhaka, has been installed as the new bishop of the Diocese of Sylhet on Tuesday, July 20.
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Myanmar reiterated his call for an end to conflict on July 19 as he appealed for unity to address the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in the country.
A Syro-Malabar diocese in India appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to help rebuild a church that was earlier demolished by authorities for being “illegal” because it stood on a “public property.”
Father Alexander Thein Kyaw was parish priest of the Our Lady of Fatima Church in Thone Kwa town. He was a member of the Order of Servants of Mary congregation.
