As the Universal Church prepares for the Jubilee Year, two of the Philippines’ leading cardinals emphasized messages of hope, joy, and inclusivity during their Christmas reflections, calling on Catholics to embody these virtues in their daily lives.
The country reported 184,372 cases in the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed, taking total infections to 13.9 million. Deaths rose by 1,027, to a toll of 172,085.
Pro-democracy activists pledged on April 13 to hold a series of protests this week to maintain pressure on military rulers during the country’s most important holiday of the year.
The ethnic minority Karen people of Myanmar have raised fears over the growing conflict and chaos in the country brought about by the February 1 military coup.
The priest is founder director of Christ Educational Foundation and is currently the director of Rajkot’s Christ Hospital, the first COVID-19 healthcare institution in Gujarat.
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo led the lighting of candles at St. Anthony’s Catholic church where 56 people died when suicide bombers carried out one of the attacks.
Christians in China are being held in secretive, mobile “transformation” facilities by communist authorities in a bid to force them to renounce their faith.
International human rights groups called for the release of a Christian leader who is being held in Laos for more than a year for allegedly violating a law protecting religious practice.
The New Delhi-based Institute of Harmony and Peace Studies (IHPS), which is headed by a Catholic priest, has been selected for a UN award sponsored by King Abdullah II of Jordan.
Two suspected suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on March 28, wounding 14 people on the first day of the Easter Holy Week, the country’s national police said.
The Apostolic Prefecture of Kampong Cham in Cambodia has donated this week some goods to the provincial government for distribution to people most affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Church and political leaders in India have condemned the reported harassment of Catholic nuns who were traveling on a train from Delhi to Odisha last week.
Pope Francis this week lauded the “growing climate of inter-religious encounter and dialogue” in Bangladesh as he congratulated the nation on its 50th anniversary of independence.
In a statement released on Wednesday, March 4, Cardinal Charles Bo warned the people of Myanmar, especially the youth, against “going down the path of violent struggle.”
