Four Kachin bishops have met Myanmar’s military chief Min Aung Hlaing to talk prospects for peace in the country’s north, where fighting between the military and armed ethnic groups has intensified. Retired Abp Paul Zinghtung Grawng of Mandalay and Bishops Philip...
Parmala Ravi Shankar quit working for a multinational company in Pakistan after four days when a manager asked her not to use the same eating utensils as Muslim colleagues. She was told to instead bring her own from home. “I was wondering what is going on — am I not a...
Sister Bernadette Saragih is a Franciscan nun. She works at the St Angela orphanage in Medan, North Sumatra province, where she helps girls and young women on their path towards independ-ence, responsibility and integra-tion. For years, she was involved in rescuing...
Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed to complete within two years the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled an army crackdown last year in Myanmar. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR), responding to the...
A Filipino Catholic priest is in hot water after turning his parish church into a dance floor, complete with disco lights, to celebrate his birthday. Father Wilfredo Lucas, priest of San Miguel Archangel Parish in the town of Plaridel, Bulacan province, was caught on...
