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After touring the Vatican's Catacombs, Al Makin, an Indonesian Muslim scholar, spoke on the importance of promoting Pieta's work and bringing all faith adherents together as brethren through a visit to St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.

Caritas Bangladesh, the social action of Catholic bishops in the country, held a workshop on indigenous migrant workers in Dhaka on June 8, 2022.

Episcopal Commission for Liturgy and Prayer (EC-LP) in the archdiocese of Dhaka held a national seminar for active participation with liturgical hymns for Catholics from June 3 to 8. 

A Catholic woman has been appointed as the new vice-chancellor of Bangalore University in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

Father John Felix Raj, vice-chancellor of St. Xavier's University, Kolkata (SXUK) received the “ABP Ananda Shiksha Ratna” (joyful education jewel) award 2022 given by India's leading Hindi News Channel, ABP News on June 10.

The Archdiocese of Seoul, South Korea, apologized after putting a relic of St. Andrew Kim Taegon on sale on an e-commerce site.

A Catholic woman on June 6 received an “Outstanding Youth Award for Working in Human Trafficking Prevention” from the government of Thailand.

The Order of Discalced Carmelites (OCD) missionaries has baptized over 100000 people in 50 years of service in Andhra and Telangana states of south India.

A National Summer Camp for students was held to create awareness of the environment at a Jesuit-run eco center at Prayagraj [Allahabad], India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

Over 1300 people including priests and nuns on June 8, 2022 attended the priestly ordination of four deacons in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, southern India.

The first-ever smart classrooms for a church-run school in India’s northeast state of Manipur were opened on June 8.

St Peter and St Paul Catechist Training Center in Yangon Archdiocese, Myanmar, opened its academic year on June 1 with Mass.

The silver jubilee of the founding of the Little Way Sisters of St. Theresa Association was celebrated at the Mother House, Kalaymyo, Myanmar on June 1.

As many as 443 young people of Yangon Archdiocese were confirmed on the Pentecost Sunday, June 5 by Cardinal Charles Bo, Bishop John Saw Yaw Han and Bishop Noel Saw Naw Aye.

A group of Christian youth in Bangladesh joined to help victims of an explosion in a warehouse in Chittagong.

A Canadian nun who has worked over three decades of missionary life in Hong Kong is to return to her home country.

The Minister of Religion of Indonesia, Yaqut Cholil Qoumas held an audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican, on Wednesday, June 8, to convey the Indonesian Government's official invitation to the Holy Father to visit the country.

An archbishop in Myanmar urged Catholics to frequent to receive the Sacrament of Confession.

A Christian student from Madagascar, East Africa graduated with the best Bachelor of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences from Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN) Jakarta, Indonesia.

Cardinal José Francisco Robles Ortega, Archbishop of Guadalajara, ordained 70 men to the priesthood on June 4 and 5 at the Mexican Martyrs Shrine in that city.