By Santosh Digal and Jose Kavi Negombo: Asia’s first tribal cardinal has urged fellow bishops to pay more attention to indigenous people who he says are the future of the Church in the region. “Christianity is not something strange to tribal communities. They live the Gospel values in their dailyContinue Reading
By: T S Thomas Negombo, Sri Lanka: Blasphemy law has brought great misery and suffering to Christians in Pakistan, the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences was told. “In Pakistan, the Christian community is a minority and often discriminated in different fields of life,” observed Bishop Benny Travas of Multan onContinue Reading
By: T S Thomas Negombo, Sri Lanka: With a little more than 1,000 baptized Catholics, six parishes and a bishop’s house, the Mongolian Catholic community is trying to make its presence felt in the country. Bishop Wens Padilla of Ulaanbaatar, head of the Catholic Church in Mongolia, explained Catholicism’s originContinue Reading
by Santosh Digal Colombo: The Church in Asia needs to help families discover Christ in themselves and others, says Cardinal George Alencherry, head of the Syro-Malabar Church, one of the two Oriental rites in India. “We all need to find Christ in ourselves and to help others to discover HimContinue Reading
Sri Lanka is hosting the plenary assembly of the Asian bishops’ apex bodyContinue Reading
Many Asian countries face land grabbing and exploitation of natural resources by transnational corporationsContinue Reading
