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Attending an online celebration of the Holy Eucharist is not a substitute to the physical presence of the faithful during the liturgy.

A Holy Cross missionary priest to Bangladesh who was awarded “Asia’s Nobel Prize” in 1987 died in the United States on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020.

A spokesman for China’s foreign ministry said Thursday that China’s interim deal with the Vatican has been “implemented successfully.”

Pope Francis stressed on the need to build a “civilization of love,” which he said goes beyond personal relationships, to address the impact of the global health crisis.

There is gloom in Bamora village in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district. A migrant worker Manish ‘Sunil’ Vishwakarma, who had returned from Delhi in May this year when the entire nation was under COVID-19 induced lockdown, allegedly committed suicide.

The Chinese government is expected to implement a new set of rules aimed at preventing foreign teachers from promoting religion in classrooms.

Pope Francis called on Catholics to make an effort “not to gossip,” which he described as “a plague more awful” than the coronavirus disease.

Caritas Bangladesh held a training workshop last month to help its staff and teachers of diocesan schools learn how to make children “feel safe and attend school cheerfully.”

Church leaders in the Philippines have expressed their opposition to a proposal in the country’s Congress to declare as “special non-working holiday” the birth anniversary of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

The apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Hong Kong has instructed members of the clergy not to include personal social and political views in their homilies.

The apostolic administrator of the Catholic Church in Hong Kong has invited Christians to “revisit the notion of the culture of life” amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Humanity is pushing the planet to the brink of collapse warned Pope Francis during his message for the World Day of Prayer for Creation.

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, archbishop of Yangon, called on the people in Myanmar to “make a discerned choice” and “vote for peace” in the country’s coming national elections.

The Catholic Church in Bangladesh launched the observance of the "Season of Creation" in the Caritas compound in Dhaka on Monday, August 31.

The Archdiocese of Mandalay has reopened churches for religious celebrations following months of strict quarantine measures imposed by the government due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Bishop John Hsane Hgyi of Pathein in Myanmar released on August 26 new guidelines that aim to prevent a “second wave” of the coronavirus pandemic in his diocese.

Archbishop Oscar Cruz, former president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines and retired prelate of Lingayen-Dagupan, died on Wednesday, August 26, at the age of 85.

Jesuit priest Gaston Roberge, former director of Chitrabani Society and a broadcaster of Radio Veritas Asia (Bengali Service) died on August 26.

Pope Francis has called on the faithful to sustain with prayers and solidarity those who are being persecuted because of their religion and faith.

The ambassadors of France and Germany paid a visit to Archbishop Marco Tin Win of Mandalay on August 21.