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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.

The United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights has raised alarm over the rising human rights abuses in many Asian countries.

Pope Francis has once again reminded the faithful against the exploitation of God’s creation in nature, saying that it results in the exploitation of people.

The Vatican expects to renew its interim deal with China on the appointment of bishops, as part of efforts to “normalize” the life of the Catholic Church in China, Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said Monday.

Religious freedom must be the result of any renewed Vatican agreement with China, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom emphasized on Tuesday, noting that underground Catholics in the country remained “persecuted.”

The California bishops met Wednesday African American Catholic leaders to begin a year-long initiative meant better to understand and combat racism.

The Diocese of Rajshahi in Bangladesh held its 18th diocesan pastoral assembly on September 11 and 12 with the theme “We are the Responsible Stewards.”

Catholic Church leaders in South Korea have expressed their opposition to a proposal to legislate same sex-marriage even as they supported an anti-discrimination bill that recognizes the existence of genders other than male and female.