Vatican City, Oct 26, 2018: Catholic leaders in Asia need to be proactive in implementing preventative sex abuse policies, a bishop from Malaysia told the 2018 Synod of Bishops. “In the Asian context, these are often not spoken, so I raised the issue,” Archbishop Simon Poh of Kuching told CNA.Continue Reading
Abu Dhabi, October 25, 2018: Emirati entrepreneur Nashwa Al Ruwaini was one of the winners of the Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice 2018. She won the award for her philanthropic efforts to revolutionize the condition of women in the Middle East, as well as for the charitable activitiesContinue Reading
October 25, 2018: Pokemon Go, the wildly successful mobile game, has been downloaded around 800 million times and scooped over 2 billion dollars in revenue since 2016. Figures like that were always going to spawn some imitators. But the latest – the Catholic Church (followers: 1.2 billion) – might comeContinue Reading
Vatican, Oct 25: Every year, just in time for World Mission Day, Agenzia Fides releases a report which takes stock of the world’s population of Catholics. This year, in celebration of their 92nd WMD, they announced that the Church had grown by 14 million faithful since 2015. The numbers areContinue Reading
DHAKA, Oct 23: Bangladesh on Sunday, October 21, repatriated the remains of a Catholic priest who died in Italy last year but asked to be buried in the Muslim-majority country where he spent most of his life. Father Marino Rigon’s funeral was held at a village south of Mongla withContinue Reading
Vatican City, Oct 23, 2018: Women in Burma are working to end human trafficking, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Yangon said during a press briefing during the Synod of Bishops. The cardinal called the issue a big problem for the country and one which shifts focus from other conversations onContinue Reading
SAMDEN demands repeal of Bangladesh’s draconian Digital Security ActContinue Reading
The tragedy occurred on October 19Continue Reading
Archbishop John Barwa of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar received thunderous applause at the synodContinue Reading
Saint Stephen is believed to be buried in a cave in the monasteryContinue Reading
