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Indian nuns tackle mental health, sex abuse issues

Catholic nuns in India are conducting a series of training programs as part of enabling women religious to address cha-llenges posed by sexual abuse, poor mental health, and suicidal tendencies. The Conference of Religious Women India (CRWI) concluded its tenth training work-shop from April 1 to 5 in the western state of Goa. About 50 […]

Don Bosco development society celebrates 500th low-cost home for Kolkata slum dwellers

The Don Bosco Development Society (DBDOC), the social service arm of the Salesian Province of Calcutta, has reached a significant milestone, handing over the keys to its 500th low-cost house for slum dwellers in Kapali Bagan, Tengra, Kolkata. In a heart-warming ceremony held on April 5, Archbishop Thomas D’Souza of Calcutta blessed and presented the […]

Indian nun-principal denies ‘conversion’ charge by student

A Catholic nun-principal of a nursing college in the central Indian Chhattisgarh state has denied as “false and baseless” the charges of trying to convert a female student. Police on April 6 registered a case of “attempted forced conversion” against Sister Bincy Joseph, principal of Holy Cross Nursing College at Kunkuri in the state’s Jashpur […]

Calicut Elevated as Archdiocese; Bishop Varghese Named First Archbishop

In a historic decision, Pope Francis has elevated the Diocese of Calicut to a Metropolitan Arch-diocese on 12 April 2025, also names Bishop Varghese Chakka-lakal (72) as the first Metropolitan Archbishop of Calicut. The dio-ceses of Kannur and Sultanpet will serve as their suffragans. The diocese of Calicut in Malabar region has a deep-rooted legacy […]

Bangladesh allows Catholic de-addiction work among prisoners

The Bangladesh government has allowed a Catholic-run de-addiction centre to use its training programs and therapy to help inmates addicted to drugs in the country’s largest prison. Holy Cross Brother Francis Nirmal Gomes, director of the Church-run Bangladesh Rehabilitation and Assistance Centre for Addicts, said the government permission came on April 7, making it an […]

Philippines: Church calls for discernment ahead of elections

Nearly 70 million Filipinos will head to the polls on 12 May, 2025, to vote in midterm elections, electing lawmakers and representatives for local governments with over 18,000 candidates vying for legislative, local, and regional posts. As the Philippines head for critical midterm elections in May, the Church in the country warns against hate speech […]

Christians in Iraqi Kurdistan gather for ecumenical Palm Sunday procession

The Christian faithful of Ankawa, a suburb of Erbil in Kurdistan Region, Iraq, came together on Saturday, 12 April, to witness their faith and ecumenical unity during the annual Palm Sunday Procession. Organized by the Catechetical Committee of the Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Erbil, the event was organized under the theme: “Hosanna in the highest, […]

Airstrikes destroy another Catholic church in Myanmar

As fighting between the military junta and resistance forces continues despite the recent earthquake, the regular army bombs the Church of Christ the King in the town of Falam, Chin State. Airstrikes by the regular army have destroyed another Catholic church in Chin, Myanmar’s only Christian-majority state, marking yet another tragic chapter in country’s ongoing […]