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Christian villagers in India uneasy after church vandalized

  • Mar 7
  • Nirmala Carvalho
A firefighter extinguishes a burned shop at a building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Credit: Hussein Malla/AP.)

In war-torn Lebanon, a Filipino Jesuit stands with abandoned migrants

  • Mar 6
  • Paterno R. Esmaquel II
Then-Archbishop Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo speaks during a briefing about the assembly of the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican Oct. 20, 2023. (Credit: Credit: Lola Gomez/CNS.)

Japanese cardinal says a ‘polite persecution’ faces Christians in Japan

  • Feb 28
  • Nirmala Carvalho
Cardinal Jaime Sin hosted both of Pope John Paul II’s visits to the Philippines in 1981 and 1995. (Credit: Ryansean071/Wikimedia Commons.)

Filipinos remember prophetic Cardinal Sin on 40th People Power anniversary

  • Feb 27
  • Paterno R. Esmaquel II
Sri Lankan police officers secure the area of exploded St. Anthony’s Church on Easter Sunday attacks in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 28, 2019. (Credit: Eranga Jayawardena/AP.)

Sri Lanka police arrest former intelligence chief in connection with 2019 bombings

  • Feb 25
  • Krishan Francis, 
    Associated Press

India’s Supreme Court grants temporary relief to tribal Christians in burial dispute

  • Feb 24
  • Nirmala Carvalho

India’s SC upholds lower court ruling in religious liberty restriction case

  • Feb 18
  • Nirmala Carvalho

Caritas Bangladesh, already active, seeks to do more

  • Feb 18
  • Stephan Uttom Rozario
Newly elected Tarique Rahman greets supporters in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Feb. 14, 2026. (Credit: Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP.)

Catholics in Bangladesh praise peaceful elections for new parliament

  • Feb 16
  • Nirmala Carvalho

Caritas Bangladesh calls for global defense of human dignity on Int’l anti-Trafficking Day

  • Feb 9
  • Stephan Uttom Rozario

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Biography explores fascinating life of ‘Father Brown’ actor, cinema great Kenneth More

  • Mar 10
  • Christopher R. Altieri

Cameroon bishop: Church provides ‘presence of hope’ amid separatist conflict

  • Mar 9
  • Ngala Killian Chimtom

Pope Leo XIV decries violence against women, appeals for respect of equal dignity

  • Mar 8
  • Elise Ann Allen

Cardinal denounces Trump administration’s ‘gamifying’ of Iran conflict

  • Mar 8
  • Christopher R. Altieri