Asian News

As the opposition political party of Sri Lanka has unveiled alleged corruption and fraud in the government, civilians express great anguish with an ongoing economic crisis.

Asia is prone to more disasters, says the “Climate Change 2022” report.

Father Peter Ah Phung, who is the first priest among Lisu and Rawang ethnic groups celebrated his 25 years of priestly ordination on April 28, 2022.

Episcopal Commission for Christian Unity and Interreligious Dialogue of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Bangladesh (CBCB) held a national training on interreligious dialogue at Christo Jyoti Pastoral Centre in the diocese of Rajshahi from 25 to 30 April.

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Central Asia (CBCCA) has elected its first president during its plenary meeting in Nursultan, Kazakhstan, April 26-29, 2022.

The Indonesian Minister of Religion, Yaqut Cholil Qoumas held a meeting with seven archbishops and 15 bishops from various dioceses in Indonesia at the Catholic Center of Ambonia Diocese, Maluku Province.

An Indian priest in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has been washing the feet of marginalized people including women for the last 30 years on Maundy Thursday.

Parents are the leading missionaries of the Catholic Church in the Philippines, says Pope’s ambassador to the country.

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Central Asia has been created and the bishops from 10 countries will take part in its first meeting soon.

A Catholic priest in South India washed the feet of a Muslim, women among others, to promote interreligious harmony at the Maundy Thursday ceremony, April 14, 2022.

The bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Manila released a pastoral letter for May 9, 2022 election with the title “Narito ang inyong Ina” (Here is your mother) (Jn. 19:17).

An Asian bishops’ institute—Veritas Asia Institute for Social Communication (VAISCOM)—will hold an online forum on truth and discipleship 6-8 in the evening Manila time on May 6, 2022.

The President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), Bishop Virgilio S. David, recalls how the Catholic faith first arrived on Philippine shores, but with an interesting twist.

Manila Archbishop Jose F. Cardinal Advincula had a private audience with His Holiness Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome last April 21, 2022.

There were many laywomen who contributed to the church’s missionary history.

The Governor of Jakarta lauded the contribution of the Church to society.

Pope Francis granted the Pontifical Coronation of the 422-year-old miraculous image of the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title Nuestra Señora del Patrocinio of Boljoon, Cebu, Philippines.

The Philippines has remained on top in terms of the country with the most Catholic baptism in 2020, a Vatican envoy said Sunday.

The people of East Timor are voting today (April 19) to select their next leader.

Bridget Tan, a long-time campaigner for the rights of migrant workers and founder of the Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (HOME), died on April 18. She was 73.