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Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, popularly known as Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco, currently underway in Rome, has elected a new General Council to lead the Congregation with Sr. Chiara Cazzuola as Superior General.

Caritas Bangladesh, the social action arm of the Catholic Church, has officially closed a month-long campaign for the “Season of Creation,” which began on September 1.

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, SDB, President of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences (FABC), launched Radio Veritas Asia’s mobile app, October 11 during a Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral Yangon, Myanmar, commemorating the feast of Pope Saint John XXIII.

Despite having constitutional provisions, Asian nations fail to effectively interpret and implement freedom and belief

Pope Francis celebrated Mass at St Peter’s Basilica for the solemn opening of the Synod of Bishops, which will take place in three stages over the next two years.

Msgr. Yohanes Harun Yuwono was installed as the new Archbishop of Palembang, South Sumatra Province of Indonesia on October 10.

Pope Francis leads a moment of reflection in the Vatican, ahead of the solemn inauguration of the Synod on Sunday with a Holy Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Pope Francis appointed Bishop Alangaram Arokia Sebastian Durairaj SVD as the new Archbishop of Bhopal in central India on October 4. Archbishop-elect Durairaj was the bishop of Khandwa Diocese in Madhya Pradesh in Central India.

A top Philippine church leader has praised the distinguished journalist Maria Ressa’s winning the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021.

On Sept. 28, a community of seminarians from the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter’s European seminary released an album of Christmas Matins, “Sancta Nox: Christmas Matins from Bavaria”. This week, the 17-song collection topped the Billboard’s Traditional Classical Albums chart.

The announcement of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize highlights the right to information and freedom of speech in a world where democracy and freedom of the press face increasingly adverse conditions.

Asian Bishops Office of Social Communication is organising a webinar for church leaders to render pastoral care amid the Covid-19 pandemic on November 6.

Pope Francis asked leaders of world religions to resist “the temptation to fundamentalism” for the sake of peace at an interreligious gathering on October 7 in front of the Colosseum.

Pope Francis attends an International Meeting for Peace with leaders of various religions and confessions at Rome's Colosseum, and urges everyone to work toward purifying our hearts so that peace might fill our world.

Archbishop Piero Pioppo, the Ambassador of the Holy See to Indonesia, consecrated Msgr. Vitus Rubianto Solichin as a bishop of Padang dioceses on September 7.

Sister Vandana Fernandes was elected the Superior General of the Rome-based Ursulines of Mary Immaculate (UMI) congregation on October 4.

Pastoral leaders worry that students in rural Myanmar may get married even before their official age because schools and learning centers are closed due to the pandemic. The leaders say some students already contracted marriage who were below the mandated age.

Myanmar youth did not expect acknowledgment for reaching out during the third wave of the pandemic and amid political turmoil.

A new book written by Bangladeshi Cardinal Patrick D'Rozario was released by Archbishop of Bejoy N. D'Cruze of Dhaka at the Catholic Bishops' Conference (CBCB) Center in Mohammadpur, Dhaka, on October 1.

Environmental activists and Ecological Observation and Wetlands Conservation (Ecoton) have built a plastic museum with 3F (Fish Fersus Flastic) in Gersik, East Java Province of Indonesia.