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Bangladesh scales back job quotas after days of violence‍

Bangladesh Supreme Court reversed its earlier decision to reintroduce quota system in civil service jobs, following weeklong deadly violence that left nearly 200 killed, thousands injured, and state properties worth millions of dollars vandalized and gutted. The full bench of the Appellate Division

Pope Francis mourns former President of Vietnam

Pope Francis has expressed his condolences for the death of Nguyen Phú Trong, and the Ge-neral Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the country’s former President. In a telegram sent on his behalf by the Holy See’s Secretary of State, Card. Pietro Parolin, to the country’s current President, Gene-ral Tô Lâm, the Holy […]

UN: world hunger shows no sign of decreasing, especially in Asia

Some 733 million people suffered from hunger last year, that is one person in 11,152 million more than in the pre-pandemic period (2019). This is the third consecutive year that the number is not decreasing, remaining “stu-bbornly unchanged,” this according to a report on The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) […]

Arunachal chief minister acknowledges Christian contribution to society

Chief Minister of right wing Hindu Bha-ratiya Janata Party ruling northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh had words of apprecia-tion and praise for a group of Catholic Church leaders visiting him on July 17. In his official Facebook post Chief Minister Pema Khandu said, “blessed to receive a call-on from Bishop Benny Edathittayel of Itanagar, Bishop […]

Indian Church leaders scramble to defuse ‘crusader’ row

Church leaders have met the top leader of Sikhism after Sikhs objected to being called “crusaders” by unidentified pastors in a northern Indian Punjab state. The pastors alle-gedly called Sikh community members “crusaders” following a spate of attacks on the state’s Christians, who were accused of forced conversions. Christians account for 10 percent of Punjab’s […]

Odia Family Relieved As Catholic Nun Liberates Them From Bondage

A family in Odisha now thanks a Catholic nun for rescuing them from bonded labour in the southern Indian state. “I can finally breathe freely. I thank Sister Sujata pro-fusely,” says Deepthi Singh, who was held in bondage along with her husband in a brick kiln in Karnataka state’s Mallur district. The 22-year-old pregnant woman […]