By Jaison Vadassery Vang Tau City, June 12, 2023: A weeklong conference of Asian Church leaders has expressed concern over shrinking democratic spaces in several countries in the region. The June 5-10 conference at Marian Pilgrim Centre Bai Dau in the Vang Tau City of Vietnam regretted that the rulersContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Yangon, December 31, 2022 — In a passionate new year appeal for peace and reconciliation Myanmar cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Yangon beckoned Military Leaders to usher in peace and facilitate humanitarian relief to reach harassed, hapless and horror stricken country men. The 73 year old cardinal,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Myanmar, May 15, 2022: Cardinal Charles Bo, head of the Catholic Church in Asia, has urged the international community to monitor the situation in Hong Kong and speak out for freedom and justice. The president of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences made the call MayContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji: The participants of an online Asian workshop “On reporting and documentation on environment issues” were invited to embrace social media for “Digital Shepherding for Ecological Justice.” The workshop was organized by Salesian Father George Plathottam, secretary of the Federation of Bishops’ Conferences – Office of SocialContinue Reading
Japanese Archbishop Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo has been appointed as the new Secretary General of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences. Archbishop Kikuchi replaced Bishop Stephen Lee Bun-Sang of Macau, who resigned from the post this month. The FABC announced the archbishops’ appointment in a letter sent to itsContinue Reading
strong>Manila: Cardinal members of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences have expressed their solidarity with the religious leaders of Myanmar while appealing for peace and restoration of democracy in the Southeastern nation. “And so to our dear brother Cardinal Bo we say: We are with you. We share your painContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Manila: Divine World Father Franz Josef Eilers, former executive secretary of the social communication office of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC), died on January 13 in Manila, capital of the Philippines. The German missionary to Asia was 89. The death occurred at 2:40 pmContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, July 8, 2020: Tributes continue to pour in for Father Raymond Ambroise, a noted communicator in the Asian Church, who died of heart attack on July 7 in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. Father Raymond’s elder brother Bishop Emeritus Yvon Ambroise of TuticorinContinue Reading
By Lourduraj SJ Hyderabad, July 7, 2020: Father Raymond Ambroise, former secretary of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) Office of Social Communication and consultant to Manila-based Radio Veritas Asia died of heart attack on July 7. He was 75. The death came at 8:25 am at Home forContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, June 26, 2020: Church groups in Asia, including the federation of the region’s Catholic bishops, on June 26 mourned the death of Maryknoll Father Robert Astorino. The pioneer in Church media in Asia was 77 and a priest for 50 years. Father Astorino, popularly knownContinue Reading
