Cardinal Patrick D’Rozario of Dhaka has made an appeal to Bangladeshi Catholics to engage more in prayers to seek God’s intervention and to donate charitably to support poor and needy people during the Covid-19 pandemic. He urged all Catholics of Dhaka Archdiocese to...
Catholic and Buddhist leaders teamed up in southern Vietnam to promote religious values as they met for Buddhism’s Vesak festival. Archbishop Joseph Nguyen Chi Linh of Hue, who led a nine-member delegation from Hue Archdiocese, paid an official visit to the Buddhist...
Hafiz Mohammed Naseerudin says that after a police officer assaulted him for being a Muslim and blamed him for spreading the coronavirus, he was left lying on the road for almost an hour. Naseerudin, 44, had gone to pick up some vegetables from his friend’s house in...
The silver casket that houses the relics of Saint Francis Xavier is set to go to Italy for restoration. However, an impasse has arisen over the responsibility to conduct the restoration. The Church authorities want to over-see the work, which was disputed by the...
Cardinal Oswald Gracias said his “heart wept” upon hearing the news that 15 migrant workers were crushed to death on May 8 after falling asleep on railway tracks in Aurangabad, which is in India’s Maharashtra State. One more person was hospitalized in the incident,...
