Manipur Interfaith Forum for Peace and Harmony holds rally

Manipur’s Interfaith Forum for Peace and Harmony (IFPH) has organized rally appealing for an end to the ongoing violence and for initiating dialogue between the two warring ethnic groups. Some 500 people belonging to diverse religious and faith traditions, ethnic and...

At ‘Church City,’ a taste of Catholic life in Qatar

Hymns echo through the spacious, blue-walled church. The congregants listen to the Gospel and the homily. They kneel, eyes closed and hands clasped in prayer or palms turned skyward. They line up to receive Communion as a choir belts out: “Lord, for my sake, teach me...

Bangladesh’s long road to lay empowerment

The 300-bed Divine Mercy Hospital near Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka will become the biggest Christian-run healthcare facility in the Muslim-majority nation when it opens in November this year. The hospital, being built at a cost of  3 billion taka (US$ 28 million), is...

Lefebvre priests’ push spreads Malaysian Church confusion

In a busy commercial hub outside Kuala Lumpur, above a row of shops, sits the chapel where Elizabeth attends Sunday Mass. But the 27-year-old Catholic, who would identify only as Elizabeth, is discreet about her newfound love for the traditional Latin language Mass....

Christians flee fresh violence in Myanmar’s Kachin state

More than a thousand people, most of them Catholics and Baptists, have fled their village in Myanmar’s northern Kachin state after fresh fighting erupted between the military forces and ethnic Kachin rebels.Those who fled belong to some 160 families from Nan San Yang...