A Catholic-affiliated institution based in Manila, the University of Asia and the Pacific, will hold an online chastity conference for Filipino teens on February 23.
The Apostolic Carmel Sisters in Sri Lanka celebrated the centenary of their services to the island nation. The congregation's charisma is education and the empowerment of girls and women.
At present, some 250 Apostolic Carmel Sisters work through 36 convents in Sri Lanka.
The Indonesian cardinal, Ignatius Kardinal Suharyo, who also serves as the Archbishop of Jakarta diocese (KAJ), launched a protocol to protect children and vulnerable adults in January 2022, at the Cathedral Church in Jakarta.
Archbishop Vincentius Sensi Potokota of Ende inaugurated a house made from waste coal at Santo Donatus Bhoanawa Parish, Ende Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province (NTT) on February 5.
An Indian nun died in a car accident in Connecticut, America on February 8. She was 40. Sister Anila Puthanthara, a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament (SABS), was killed in a car accident in the United States.
A Jesuit-run center has started 30 alternative learning or study centers for tea garden students in the Jalpaiguri district of the Indian state of West Bengal.
A 62-year-old nun who is allegedly framed in “a forced conversion case and death of a schoolgirl” in south India got bail from the local court on February 7.
In Pakistan, civil society groups called for an end to “unabated attacks on people belonging to religious minorities” in Pakistan. They were speaking at a peaceful protest staged by a Christian-led rights organization at the Karachi Press Club on February 6 against the January 30 killing of Christian Pastor William Siraj in Peshawar.
In an atmosphere of increasing animosity towards religious minorities by right-wing groups in India, the Madras High Court in Tamil Nadu state recently delivered a judgment stressing the need for religious tolerance towards other religious practices.
In the south Indian state of Karnataka, the Catholic community in Mangalore are in anguish as right-wing Hindu activists allegedly razed to ground a 40-year-old St. Antony’s Holy Cross prayer centre in the Urandady Gudde-Panjimogaru on February 5.
Locals, including venerable children, the elderly and women, in Sumpyi Yang and Lung Sha Yang villages in Putao Township of Kachin State in the Northern part of Myanmar fled in fear of regional war on February 5.
