The Golden Jubilee celebrations of St. Peter’s Pontifical Institute, Bengaluru, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, held from September 17 to 19, opened with a day marked by prayer, reflection, and academic exchange.
As India passes 8 million new coronavirus infections, the Catholic Hospitals Association in India (CHAI) is helping healthcare workers in the country’s more remote areas deal with the pandemic.
Civil society members joined church officials in Bangladesh to pay homage to American Holy Cross priest Richard William Timm for his extraordinary contributions to education, science, research, human rights, pioneering development works for rebuilding the war-torn country and uplifting the poor and downtrodden.
The Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences (FABC) have called for the immediate release of Indian priest Stan Swamy, whose incarceration the bishops likened to “the treatment meted out to Mahatma Gandhi.”
Pope Francis has named Bishop Cornelius Sim of the Apostolic Vicariate of Brunei Darussalam the first Catholic cardinal of one of the richest and smallest countries in the world.
Archbishop Paul Zinghtung Grawng of Myanmar, considered by many members of the Catholic clergy in the country as a mentor, died on Saturday, October 24.
Pope Francis’ statement expressing openness to the idea of creating a law that will “legally cover” homosexual people has stirred mixed reactions fuelled by various media interpretations.
The Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Bangladesh held a seminar last week on Pope Francis’ latest encyclical titled “Fratelli tutti.”
Protestants in Kondagaon district in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh are living in fear following attacks on their properties by local indigenous people last month.
China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs ordered that only trips organized by the state-sanctioned Islamic Association of China will be permitted.
Christians in Saravan province in Laos have reportedly been evicted from their homes and forced to live in a forest area for refusing to renounce their faith.
The Office of Papal Charities in the Vatican has received a building in Rome from a women’s religious congregation for free use to shelter migrants and refugees arriving in Italy.
The priest was taken from his residence at the Jesuit owned Bagaicha social center and then taken to Mumbai where a special court remanded him in judicial custody until October 23.
