On December 13, Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Vicariate issued an appeal for fundraising to support schools located in high-risk areas and to assist Cambodian people who have been displaced due to the war along the Cambodia–Thailand border.
After 60 years of St. Joseph's Parish establishment, the Catholic community of Sugnu in Manipur State, northeastern India, joyfully inaugurated Parish Pastoral Council (PPC) office on May 27, 2022.
The Council of the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) elected Christine Nathan from India as the new president. She is the first ICMC president from Asia.
Pope Francis on June 1 named three cardinals from Asia as members of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
On May 26, 2022, Xaverian priests and others in Bangladesh held a memorial Mass for the late Father Attilio Boscato, an Italian Xaverian missionary, who served 48 years in Khulna and Mymensingh dioceses.
The Society of the Missionaries of St. Francis Xavier (Society of Pilar) is thrilled about having 19 new priests, who were ordained across India in May, including five priests who are “only sons” of their parents.
Archbishop Dom Virgilio do Carmo da Silva of Dili thought that Pope Francis's decision to appoint him a cardinal was a gift from God to the people and church of Timor-Leste.