On August 22, the Archdiocese of Ende, Flores, Indonesia, celebrated the consecration and installation of Msgr. Paulus Budi Kleden as its new archbishop.
The year-long bicentennial celebrations which kicked off on 13 December 2020, concluded on Saturday with simultaneous Masses in the 32 parish churches of Singapore. Singapore-200-years-celebrations-mass-bells
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, consecrated Our Lady of Arabia Cathedral in Bahrain, the newest and largest cathedral in the Persian Gulf region, December 10.
Sister Betsy Devasia, working in Guwahati, Assam, was conferred with the 11th International Human Rights Award for her contribution to women's development in the region by the Delhi-based International Human Rights Council at the India Islamic Centre Auditorium, New Delhi, on December 10.
Pope Francis on Friday exhorted Christians to keep clear of a fake, commercial Christmas, polluted by consumerism and indifference. He made the remark to a group of 3 delegations who donated two Nativity Scenes and a Christmas tree to the Vatican this year.
On December 6, a right-wing Hindu group of an estimated 500 people attacked St. Joseph school in Ganj Basoda town, 100 kilometres from Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh in central India.
The killing of civilians by security forces in Nagaland state in Northeastern India has evoked widespread condemnation from several sections of society, including Church groups, students, and human rights activists across the country.
Catholics in Buddhist-majority Cambodia are celebrating the first-ever deacon from the Bunong ethnic minority, who are forest dwellers with a strong love for elephants.
Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas (61), sfx, the auxiliary bishop of Ranchi as the new Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Daltonganj in Jharkhand, India, on December 8.
Bishop Olivier Schmitthaeusler of Phnom Penh commended Catholic nuns serving Cambodian people for over twenty years and offered a blessing to “live more years like turtle.”
Archbishop Bejoy D'Cruze, OMI of Dhaka, spoke about the late Father Charles Young, who pioneered credit unions among the Bangladeshi people. Archbishop invites to follow the value of honesty promoted by Father Young during his life.
Samaritan Children Home, a charity in Bangladesh, organized a pre-Christmas celebration for the street children, orphans and underprivileged in Kamalapur, Savar, 30 kilometers away from Dhaka, on December 2.
Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrão of Goa-Daman urged government authorities to avoid “any undue or offensive interventions, even by legitimate stakeholders in and around these monuments that can have grave consequences and attract the derecognition of the World Heritage status, which would be a tremendous and severe loss to Goa.”
Emeritus Bishop Aleixo Dias sfx of Andaman urged the pilgrims to pray for conversion in the proper sense of the term and encouraged government officials to serve the poor.
