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Laotian Catholics honour first lay martyr with new church

Catholic faithful in Laos joined clergy and religious to celebrate the dedication of a new church to the first layman from the ethnic Hmong community who was martyred for his faith six decades ago. The church was dedicated to Blessed Paul Thoj Xyooj at Ban Nam Gnam village in Thulakhom district of Vientiane province, reported […]

Vietnam Catholics rush to feed poor during Tet festival

Catholics in Vietnam are speeding up provision of basic food to allow people badly affected by Covid-19 to celebrate the coming Lunar New Year holiday. On Jan. 19, Caritas workers and parish council members from the parishes of Nhan Hoa and Xom Moi provided gifts for some 400 families whose members had died or lost […]

Singapore Catholic charged with sexual abuse of teenagers

A court in Singapore has charged a former Catholic officer of a church-run school with committing unlawful sexual acts with at least two teenage boys more than a decade ago. District Judge Terence Tay at the State Courts of Singapore accepted the charges on Jan. 10 but issued a ban against media revealing the identity […]

Myanmar bishops appeal for humanitarian assistance

The Catholic Bishops’ Con-ference of Myanmar has issued a statement last week calling for humanitarian assistance to thousands of people who have been displaced by the ongoing conflict in the country. In a letter of appeal released on January 14, the Church leaders called on “all concerned” to facilitate “humanitarian access to suffering and internally […]

Covid kills Jesuit canonist

Jesuit canonist and lawyer and a former professor in Delhi’s Vidyajyoti theologate died of Covid-19 January 26 in Dindigul town in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He was 69. Fr. Jeyaseelan Thomas Barnabas suffered a massive heart attack and died at 7:30 am as he was taken to a hospital for Covid-19 treatment. […]

Syro-Malabar Church elevates two auxiliary bishops

The Syro-Malabar Church on January 15 appointed new prelates for its Tellicherry archdiocese and Palghat diocese. The Oriental Catholic Church’s bishops’ synod promoted, with the papal approval, Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Pamplany of Tellicherry as the archdiocese’s new prelate. He replaces Archbishop George Njaralakatt, who has retired. Similarly, the synod has appointed Palghat Auxiliary Bishop Peter […]

Indian missionary captured, released in 24 hours in Ethiopia

Fr Joshua Edakadambil, an Indian Catholic priest serving in Ethiopia as a missionary was kidnapped by rebel soldiers but released him in 24 hours. The member of the Order of the Imitation of Christ, or Bethany Ashram, has been working in the Apostolic Vicariate of Nekemte in the east Afri-can country. The 32-year-old priest was […]

300 attacks on Christians in past nine months: Report

As many as 300 attacks on Christians have taken place in India in the past nine months, says a report of a fact-finding team. The report titled, “Christians Under Attack in India,” was released January 18 at a press conference in Jaipur, capital of the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan. The meet was organized by […]