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A group of minority rights organizations, academics and educational institutions have delivered a letter to Pakistan’s Education Ministry seeking transparent, inclusive and historically informed consultation about the country’s new education policy.

The youth commission of the Archdiocese of Mandalay has named a new director during its first meeting for the year 2021.

Thailand’s bishops are urging Catholics to make known their opposition to a proposed amendment that would permit women up to 12 weeks pregnant to have an abortion.

The Archdiocese of Mandalay in Myanmar has donated ten million kyats to the government for the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines.

Caritas, the social action arm of the Catholic Church, has launched relief efforts to help thousands of Rohingya refugees in a Bangladeshi camp that was razed by fire last week.

Pope Francis opened the "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity" on Sunday, Jan 17, calling the occasion "an important day" for everyone.

Pope Francis said he is saddened to learn of the tragic loss of life and of the destruction caused by the violent earthquake that has struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi

The prevailing coronavirus pandemic has limited attendance to annual popular Marian pilgrimage in Bangladesh that was held in the Diocese of Rajshahi on January 16.

For the 20th straight year, North Korea topped 50 countries where Christians face the most persecution and discrimination for their faith.

The Vatican, the world’s smallest state, began its COVID-19 vaccination program this week, prioritizing doctors, health workers, and the most vulnerable

Gov't response ‘demonstrates lack of sensitivity’ to communities who consider burial rites integral to their religious customs

The Vatican noted that the health situation caused by the pandemic has forced changes even in the rituals and celebrations of the Church

Pope Francis lambasted the “inefficiencies in the care of the sick” that have become more pronounced last year at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

German missionary priest Franz-Josef Eilers, a respected leader in the field of social and pastoral communication in the Catholic Church, died in the Philippines on Jan. 13. He was 88.

The king of Malaysia has declared a nationwide state of emergency on Tuesday, January 12, to curb the spread of COVID-19.

At least 200 Italian Catholic priests died due to COVID-19 last year, according to news reports.

For the second time, the Jesuit community in Taunggyi, Myanmar, distributed food to poor families affected by the pandemic on January 10.

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.