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Sister Bernadette Ja Hkawn was a government school teacher for ten years in Myanmar. During one year of discernment before she joined the convent, she prayed and asked for signs from God to make sure of His call. But she got nothing external, except something internal.

A Cambodian seminarian responds to the call of God to become a Catholic priest.

As the 40th anniversary of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in 2020, 40,000 trees will be planted in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand to strengthen their social and ecological systems. 

An Indian Claretian missionary who works in Macao has begun an ambitious educational project in Nepal.

An Indian, Gitanjali Babbar, founded the non-profit organization Kat-Katha in 2011 to create a safe space for the sex workers to live independently.

Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng, who was a victim of war and a migrant in Kachin State in the northern part of Myanmar, becomes a courageous and generous nun.

A 67-year-old Lisu priest wishes to unify Lisu hymns and prayer books in Myitkyina and Lashio Dioceses of Myanmar.

St Joseph Tailoring Institute, West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India was formed as part of the Church's mission to assist people in reestablishing their economies through employment and self-sufficiency.

The Pentecost Sunday on June 5 was a busy day for a Filipina Catholic lay missionary, who taught catechism to a dozen of children ages 8-12 in the southern Philippines inside the parish’s kitchen.

An Indian layman, a teacher-turn media person, has served at the Vatican Radio for the last four decades.

An Indian woman is promoting “diplomacy journalism” between India and Nepal—two neighboring countries –to foster peace and cultural exchange.

International Maritime Organization (IMO) reported that only 2% of 1.6 million seafarers of the world are women. This shows that there is a great gender gap in the maritime world.

A Catholic nun in Singapore won the gold medal in the World Taekwondo Poomsae championship.

A 19-year-old, Jacinta Siang Lawng Tial serves the Church as a volunteer at the office of Radio Veritas Asia (RVA) Falam Chin Service in the diocese of Hakha, Chin State, Myanmar.

A former Supreme Court Justice and senior advocate supported a poor woman from the southern state of Kerala to dream big—to be a lawyer.

Father Martin Abad Santos, a Filipino, who was a medical doctor before he entered the Society of Jesus, has been a missionary for the last 20 years in East Timor.

Sister Prema Chowallur, a member of Sisters of the Cross of Chavanod (SCC), initiates to help the LGBTQ (an umbrella term for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) community in Assam, a state in Northeastern India.

Annaliza Celetaria, an Overseas Filipino Worker, is an example of a mother who sacrifices everything just to provide for the needs of her family.

It was not his search for God, but God’s search for him, says an Indian Catholic priest, who was formerly a Buddhist.

For decades, groups of Sri Lankan Tamils have come to Tamil Nadu, south India fleeing war, hostilities, and political tensions on the island nation. The new refugees from Sri Lanka are driven by hunger, not war.