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The head of the Salesians announced that the order has raised nearly 8 million euros to help thousands of families worldwide who have been financially affected during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the Holy See’s top diplomats had a “respectful” exchange of views on China, the Vatican said Thursday.

Pope Francis has named Bishop Bejoy Nicephorus D’Cruze, O.M.I., as new Archbishop of Dhaka.

Pope Francis called on people not to return to so-called “normality” before the coronavirus pandemic, describing it as “ailing.”

Hong Kong’s Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun came home from a four-day visit to Rome with nothing but hope that the Holy See would address issues being faced by the Church in China.

Gunmen kidnapped a Catholic priest in Nigeria’s Delta State on Saturday, the second kidnapping that same priest has experienced since 2018.

The Vatican announced on Monday, September 28, the appointment of an American archbishop as new Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines.

Pope Francis has called on world leaders to be “especially attentive” to children who have been denied their fundamental rights amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

The Catholic Church in Bangladesh held a webinar on the occasion of the 106th World Day for Migrants and Refugees on September 26.

Many village women when pregnant won’t see a doctor, nor eat enough food — Caritas aims to change that

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, has recovered from the new coronavirus disease.

Pope Francis issued a call this week urging everyone to take the path of “subsidiarity,” a principle that allows everyone to participate in the “healing” of society.

A spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wang Wenbin, has underscored the country’s insistence that Taiwan not be recognized as a sovereign nation in response to a question on the island democracy’s relations with the Holy See.

Catholic church leaders in Sri Lanka refuted claims made by a politician implying that Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the archbishop of Colombo, had advance knowledge of the 2019 Easter bomb attacks.

A film by Father John La Raw, a Catholic priest from Myanmar and former coordinator of Radio Veritas Asia’s Kachin Service, will soon be shown in 67 countries in Asia and Africa.

As a response to the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic in Myanmar, a major Catholic seminary in Yangon has been turned into a quarantine facility.

Christian leaders in Bangladesh held a webinar to mark the “Season of Creation” as a response to the invitation of Pope Francis for everyone to come together to care for the “common home.”

Chinese authorities have reportedly abducted a Catholic priest in the Diocese of Mindong in Fujian on the south-east coast of China and has since been detained in an unknown location.

Hate attacks against Christians have become a new normal in India. There has been a rise in cases of attacks against churches and pastors being reported almost daily recently.

The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in the Philippines has named Father Gerry delos Reyes, a missionary assigned in Thailand for years, as its new provincial superior in the country.