'Vocation comes from God and highlights the role of the Holy Spirit as the primary formator in the journey toward priesthood and religious life,' said Fr. Eugene D. Silva, CSsR.
In his keynote address, Bishop Albert Hemrom of Dibrugarh (Assam), NESCOM chairman, stressed the need “to uphold truth in the context of fake news and distorted truth.
A Catholic bishop in Bangladesh called for stories “that help build people’s lives” as the country’s Rajshahi diocese marked World Communications Day on Sunday.
Jesuit priest Stephen Chow Sau-yan, 61, has been named the ninth Catholic bishop of the Chinese special administrative region of Hong Kong on Monday, May 17.
The Church’s social arm Karuna (Caritas) Myanmar has stepped in to provide humanitarian aid as thousands of civilians have been displaced as a result of intense fighting in Myanmar’s Kachin state.
Pope Francis appointed Bishop Shorot Francis Gomes, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Dhaka, as the new bishop of the Diocese of Sylhet on Wednesday, May 12.
The Catholic Church in India has offered 60,000 hospital beds and other facilities for the use of COVID-19 patients amid the continuing surge of infections in the country.
The Catholic Church in Cambodia through its social action arm Caritas provided food packs to fisherfolk living along the Mekong River in Phnom Penh on May 5.
Catholic faithful in the Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Bonpara in northwestern Bangladesh joined Pope Francis in the recitation of the Holy Rosary for an end to the coronavirus pandemic.
Prayers and offerings marked the celebration of the feast of St. Joseph the Worker at the Dhormohata village church under the Good Shepherd Cathedral Parish in Rajshahi diocese on May 1.
The Catholic Vicariate of Phnom Penh in Cambodia initiated the distribution of food supplies in areas most affected by the lockdown due to the prevailing coronavirus pandemic.
Bishop Olivier Schmitthaeusler, apostolic vicar of Phnom Penh, visited families under quarantine during the lockdown due to the pandemic to extend the Church’s help to those most in need.
Church officials said the cardinal passed away of old age at 10:15 p.m. at a Seoul hospital where he had been since February due to an unspecified ailment.