Login      Register  
Subscription

Pakistani Christians protest over poisoning case

More than 300 mourners protested for several hours alongside the body of a Christian laborer allegedly poisoned by Muslims as officials urged them to bury their dead. “O Lord we are helpless” and “Injustice with Christians” stated placards as villagers from Tariqabad blocked a major road near Gojra city of Pakistan’s Punjab province on May […]

Cemetery of sorrow: Catholics care for babies who never lived

A group of Vietnamese women whose husbands died or work far from home devote themselves to burying the fetuses of babies resulting from abortions or miscarriages. The women, from Nam Vien Parish in Tien Du district neighbouring the northern city of Bac Ninh, provide a service that other married women who are busy looking after […]

Hmong village boy takes first vows as Oblate religious

At the chapel of Mai Thien Loc Theologate of the Oblates of Mary of Immaculate Conception (OMI), the superior of the Vietnam Mission received the vows of eight novices, including Brother Joseph Tinh A Senh, a son of Dien Bien Parish in Hung Hoa Diocese. He belongs to the Hmong ethnic group. This is good […]

Philippine Church issues warning over fake social media

Manila Archdiocese has issued a notice warning Catholics not to be fooled by fake social media accounts purportedly owned by the Philippine capital’s recently appointed archbishop, saying he has no social media account on any platform. People have reported several accounts on Facebook using the name and photos of Cardinal Jose Advincula. One Facebook page […]

Christian leaders offer to mediate Papua peace talks

Churches in Papua have offered to mediate talks between the Indonesian government and separatist groups in a bid to ease tensions in the restive region. The offer comes amid an escalation in violence in Papua that has seen hundreds of troops deployed and many people dis-placed in a crackdown following the government’s decision on April […]

Myanmar’s Junta soldiers are ‘terrorists’

More and more people on social media are describing the military junta responsible for the coup d’état and its soldiers as “terrorists.” The label is not only used to counter the military regime’s use of the “terrorist” label against its opposition, but reflects a broadly held view in the population that the military is reverting […]

Indian court favours nun’s petition to ban offensive movie

Delhi High Court has directed the federal Information and Broadcasting Ministry to expeditiously consider a Catholic nun’s demand to ban a movie accused of portraying priests and nuns as “sex maniacs”. The direction from the state court of the national capital came on May 17 while it was hearing a petition from Sister Jessy Mani, […]

Indian guru’s aide accuses medical chief of Christian conspiracy

A day after the Indian Medical Association (IMA) took yoga guru Baba Ramdev to task for remarks criticizing allopathy, his aide Acharya Balkrishna claimed that IMA president Johnrose Jayalal was conspiring to convert the country to Christianity. Last week Ramdev in a video clip had said that allopathy — the treatment of disease by drugs […]