In a beautiful expression of Christian unity and shared faith, an Ecumenical Lenten Retreat was held on March 23 in Secunderabad, in the southern Indian state of Telangana, bringing together more than 200 faithful from diverse Christian denominations.
Pope Francis, in another step toward greater equality for women in the Catholic Church, issued a decree allowing women to serve as readers at liturgies, altar servers, and distributors of communion.
A group of Indian Christians have warned against what they described as a “propaganda operation” that might “polarize society along ethno-religious lines.”
Despite health warnings, hundreds of thousands of Filipino Catholics went out of their homes in Manila on Jan. 9, to venerate a centuries-old wooden statue of the Black Nazarene.
Several of the sisters, popularly known as the Shanti Rani Sisters, marked their golden and silver anniversaries. Others took their final professions while new nuns took their first vows.
The head of the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines called on the country’s police officers to be “true” to the service and to face criminality not just with courage but also with faith.
Jesuit seminarians in Taunggyi, Myanmar, welcomed the new year by spending time with orphans and persons with disabilities at the Infant Jesus' Home in Shan State.
Hundreds of Pakistani Christian families fled a Lahore neighborhood ahead of Christmas after a mob of Muslims threatened to set fire to their homes, an international Christian group has reported.
The second wave of Covid-19 infections is devastating religious communities in South Africa, with at least six elderly nuns dying last week from a religious congregation in one diocese alone.
Radio Veritas Asia’s Telugu service and Amruthavani conducted a free medical camp on December 20 to provide free medical check-up and special consultation for the public.
