The Election Commission of India has turned down a request to change the election date in West Bengal and Assam from Maundy Thursday. The All India Catholic Union (AICU), the largest laity movement in Asia, submitted a petition asking the commission to reconsider...
A day after a Kachin nun’s brave act in confronting security forces, a Catholic priest played a mediator role in a Catholic stronghold in northeastern Myanmar. Wearing a white robe, Father Celso Ba Shwe, apostolic administrator of Loikaw Diocese, walked in front of...
Five Jesuit-run universities in the Philippines have issued a joint statement condemning an ongoing deadly crackdown on street protests against Myanmar’s military coup that has claimed at least 70 lives, according to the United Nations. The military takeover on Feb. 1...
A Catholic religious woman took to the streets in the city of a, the capital of Kachin State in the north of Mynamar, and ask-ed the security forces not to shoot young demonstrators who are protesting peacefully. Sister Ann Nu Thawng of the Congregation of St Francis...
Christians in Bangladesh claim they are being per-secuted after the demolition of a new church building in the remote Chittagong Hill Tracts region. About 200 Catholics and Protestants formed a human chain and held a silent protest on March 8 against the demolition of...
