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Thousands of people continue to be displaced in several areas in Myanmar, said reports received by Radio Veritas Asia from communities.

Tributes have been pouring in from all parts of the country as the Indian Christian community and political leaders mourn the death of Oscar Fernandes, a prominent Catholic politician from Karnataka State and former Union minister. He died on September 13 at the age of 80 years old.

Cardinal Oswald Gracias released the Indian edition of Healing the World: Life After Pandemic, a book by Pope Francis at the Holy Name Cathedral, Mumbai, on September 12.

A top Vatican official, Pope Francis' climate change desk man, stressed the importance of journalists in disseminating information about environmental issues.

More people have been displaced in Myanmar's Karen state and in Tanintharyee division, said reports reaching Radio Veritas Asia.

Myanmar junta forces have reportedly occupied churches and destroyed stocks of food aid for refugees during clashes with ethnic armed forces and militias.

FABC President and Archbishop of Yangon, Cardinal Charles Bo sdb, will address the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress which got underway in Budapest, Hungary, September 5.

A fisherman from the southern Philippines, an Indonesian media group, a scientist from Bangladesh, a Pakistani entrepreneur, and a humanitarian worker are this year’s winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, dubbed as Asia’s Nobel Prize.

Catholic activists in Yogyakarta in Central Java held a vaccination campaign for university students who come from outside Yogyakarta.

Vice President K.H. Ma'ruf Amin of Indonesia stressed the importance of “national harmony” in the country as he visited the country’s main houses of worship on August 27.

Children in six Asian countries are among those most at risk of the impacts of the climate crisis, says a report by the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund or UNICEF.

A Catholic nun was reported hurt in an attack in the municipality of Bonpara in the district of Natore in Bangladesh's northern Rajshahi division.

Catholics in Sri Lanka wore black and hoisted black flags on Saturday, August 21, to show their indignation over the government’s failure to solve the 2019 Easter Sunday attack on churches.

Caritas Bangladesh, the social action arm of the Catholic Church in the country, held a training seminar for teachers on ethics and morals in Caritas's Rajshahi regional office on August 18 and 19.

A Jesuit priest who became captive of the Taliban in Afghanistan blamed the international community for the current political crisis in the country.

Christians in Afghanistan fear that it is only a matter of time before the attacks happen as some of them start to receive threats

Myanmar's military has earlier asked for 30 monks, one for each checkpoint in the city, from an organization of Buddhist monks

The cardinal said he was not satisfied with the legal action currently being taken by the authorities against the bombing suspects

A Jesuit priest who is currently stranded in Afghanistan following the takeover by the militant Taliban of the country this week said the situation is “changing” and “chaotic.”

Human rights and minority groups in Bangladesh staged a demonstration last week to protest alleged abuses and torture of minorities in the country.