Church in Asia

The United Nations said it feared a wider human rights catastrophe amid reports of thousands of troops massing in the north and west of the country

Two priests saved people caught in a clash between separatist rebels and soldiers in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited Pope Francis to India after a one-on-one meeting in Vatican City on October 30.

According to local media reports in India, the Karnataka government has put on hold a proposal to survey official and unofficial churches and 'Bible societies'. The government is waiting for the verdict of the state High Court on a public interest suit filed in this regard.

A Bangladeshi Cardinal called on pilgrims at a Marian shrine "to do whatever it takes to unite the society," calling such actions "a pilgrimage of life."

Pope Francis appointed new archbishop for the archdiocese of Seoul, South Korea.

Two South Korean Missionaries arrested in Nepal in September are still in prison on charges of illegal conversion activities which the local Church says are unfounded.

For the incoming bishop of Hong Kong, the animal from the African savannah has significant symbolic value, so much so that he decided to feature the tallest living animal in his episcopal coat of arms.

Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore, leader of the Christian community in Karnataka, on October 25 reiterated his opposition to a government move to introduce a bill to ban “forcible religious” in the southern Indian state.

The report said the prelate was taken “for tourism,” adding that it was not the first time he was taken and made to disappear

The Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Good and Perpetual Succour (BPS)-Philippine mission, joined “A million children praying Rosary” for peace and unity in response to the Catholic organization, the Church in Need (ACN) as part of the worldwide campaign of prayer to defeat evil in our society

Archbishop Girelli, Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal, conferred the Pallium on the Metropolitan Archbishop Sebastian Kallupura of Patna, at the St. Joseph's pro-Cathedral on October 23.

Rightwing Hindu activists on October 25 served a 15-day ultimatum to Catholic school in the central Indian state Madhya Pradesh state to install in the campus an idol of Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge.

An Indonesian priest is honored by a local government in Argentina in appreciation of his missionary work.

Cardinal Jose Advincula of Manila has called on the people to take part in the synodal process “no matter what your social, political, and economic, intellectual, or spiritual affiliation of our status is.”

Church officials are trying to gain the release of charity staff aiding displaced people in Kayah state.

Bangladesh Bishop Gervas Rozario of Rajshahi called on the youth to be witnesses to the truth, good works and the experience of Jesus.

A war-like situation did not stop Catholics in Myanmar to inaugurate the synodal journey on October 17. But the faithful in Myanmar’s Chin State could not join the online service of the opening ceremony of the synodal process.

Catholic children in the archdiocese of Yangon and diocese of Mawlamyaine took part in the ‘One Million Children Praying the Rosary’ Campaign on October 18. Missionary Childhood Association in Myanmar led the rosary campaign focusing on worldwide unity and peace.

In the wake of Iraq’s parliamentary elections, the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch urges Iraqi politicians to be rational and calm tensions in order to break the political gridlock as parties jockey for influence.