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Pope Leo receives a purebred Arabian horse

Church in Asia

Supporters of National Citizen Party (NCP) listen to the party leader Nahid Islam during a political rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025. (Credit: Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP.)

Bangladesh’s Christian community seeks representation in the next parliamentary election

Oct 16
Stephan Uttom Rozario

A child with other people walks around a cage to look at bugs at an exhibition devoted to insects in Tokyo, Japan, July 31, 2025. (Credit: Yuri Kageyama/AP.)

Low birthrate affecting Catholic Church in Japan

Oct 16
Nirmala Carvalho

Japan's death chamber. (Credit: AP.)

Cardinal calls for Japan to stop using the death penalty

Oct 15
Nirmala Carvalho

Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, holding his wooden crozier, joins anti-corruption protesters wearing white at the Trillion Peso March in Quezon City, Philippines, Sept. 21, 2025. (Credit: Roy Lagarde/CBCP News.)

Catholic leaders urge Filipinos to wear white against corruption

Oct 14
Joseph San Mateo

Fate of US citizen arrested in India uncertain

Oct 12
Nirmala Carvalho

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle in the Vatican press office on Sept. 27, 2017. (Credit: Andrew Medechini/AP.)

Card. Tagle rebukes corrupt politicians in Philippines

Oct 12
Joseph San Mateo

Some assailants set off two cocktail explosions in quick succession at the main gate of the Holy Rosary Church in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Oct. 8, 2025. (Credit: Stephan Uttom Rozario.)

Arrest made in attack on Catholic church in Bangladesh

Oct 11
Stephan Uttom Rozario

Filipino cardinal decries injustices against country’s Muslim minority

Oct 7
Joseph San Mateo

Pope Leo XIV rides in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican on Sep.27, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Bangladesh laity charge Vatican’s Jubilee of Catechists celebrated only priests, religious

Oct 7
Stephan Uttom Rozario

Recalling ‘People Power’ in the 80s, Filipino Church joins anti-corruption protests

Oct 3
Joseph San Mateo