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China, nearly 50,000 baptisms in the Catholic Church in 2018‍

At least 48,365 baptisms were celebrated in churches and Catholic communities in the People’s Republic of China in the year 2018. This is the number reported in the official publication of the Faith Institute for Cultural Studies, based in Shijiazhuang, the capital of the Chinese province of Hebei

Young Bangladeshi Catholics told to turn off phones

In a Lenten message to young Catholics in Bangladesh, Cardinal Patrick D’Rozario of Dhaka called on them to get closer to Jesus Christ and to refrain from using their mobile phones on every Friday leading to Easter Sunday. “My dear young people, during this Lent I appeal to you for a unique sacrifice. I request […]

Two hundred families in Karachi flee after three young Christian women are accused of blasphemy out of revenge

Charges of desecrating the pages of the Qurân saw three young Christian women, including two minors, placed under arrest. It was later discovered that none of the charges were true, but by then the news had spread across their Karachi neighbourhood, provoking a violent reaction by local Islamic radicals who forced some 200 Christian families […]

Philippine Bishop: Duterte’s drug war is ‘illegal, immoral and anti-poor’

A Catholic bishop in the Philippines said his government’s controversial war on drugs is really a war against the country’s poor. “There is no war against illegal drugs, because the supply is not being stopped. If they are really after illegal drugs, they would go after the big people, the manufacturers, the smugglers, the suppliers. […]

FOR CARD SAKO, THE POPE’S VISIT TO THE UAE BRINGS A MESSAGE AGAINST HATRED, VIOLENCE AND PERSECUTION

Anti-Christian persecution in the Middle East is a major concern, said Pope Francis in Angelus before leaving for the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where he remained, something Chaldean Patriarch Card Louis Raphael Sako stressed as he spoke about the first papal visit to a Gulf State. With persecution in Iraq, Syria and Yemen in his […]

CASTE-AWAY: DALITS SEEK ESCAPE THROUGH CONVERSION IN NEPAL

The Christian community in Nepal has not been spared the wrath of society’s caste based inequality, even though bottom-rung Dalits are increasingly turning to Christianity as a means to escape their fate. Religious conversions are illegal in Nepal but the numbers suggest many consider it a risk worth taking as the “untouchables” are among the […]

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3 German Catholic dioceses to join Lutherans in Lenten fast for climate protection, climate justice

The number of churches “regularized” by the Egyptian government rises to 783