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After the August 5 uprising, there have been incidents of torture and persecution of 2,300 people from minority communities alleged from a rally and human chain organized by Bangladesh Minority Unity Front on Dec. 22, at Dhaka. (Credit: Bangladesh Minority Unity Front.)

Bangladesh Minority Unity Front alleges government failure to provide security to minorities

  • Dec 24
  • Stephan Uttom Rozario
Activists of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a prominent right-wing Hindu nationalist organization, shout slogans during a protest near Bangladesh High Commission accusing Bangladeshi groups of wrongly targeting Indians, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec.23, 2025. (Credit: Manish Swarup/AP.)

Protest erupts in India’s capital city over lynching of Hindu man in Bangladesh

  • Dec 23
  • Rajesh Roy, 
    Riyush Nagpal, Associated Press
Caritas Bangladesh organized a special Advent Spiritual Seminar on Dec. 13, 2025 under the Strengthen Care & Support for People Living with HIV and AIDS and Their Children Project, supported by MISSIO. (Credit: Caritas Bangladesh.)

Catholic Church in Bangladesh participates in fight against HIV/AIDS

  • Dec 21
  • Stephan Uttom Rozario
Rajasthan Legislative Assembly in India. (Credit: Wikipedia.)

Catholics intimidated in India

  • Dec 19
  • Nirmala Carvalho
On December 18, 2025, during a meeting between Catholic leaders and senior police officials, including the Chief of Bangladesh Police in Dhaka, the police administration assured special security for Christmas. (Credit: Bangladesh Christian Association.)

Bangladesh police to take special security measures for Christmas

  • Dec 18
  • Stephan Uttom Rozario
Flag of India. (Credit: Unsplash.)

India’s bishops secure procedural win in early stage of constitutional challenge to anti-conversion law

  • Dec 18
  • Nirmala Carvalho
A police vehicle in Davao City, the Philippines, on Dec. 17, 2025. (Credit: Manman Dejeto/AP.)

What to know about a Philippines region with militant history visited by Bondi Beach suspects

  • Dec 18
  • Jim Gomez, 
    Associated Press
(Credit: Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de la Asuncion de Maragondon/Facebook.)

300-year-old pulpit, a national cultural treasure in Philippines, collapses

  • Dec 17
  • Joseph San Mateo
People wait to enter the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts ahead of the verdict for Hong Kong activist publisher Jimmy Lai’s national security trial, in Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (Credit: Chan Long Hei/AP.)

Former Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai, a Catholic, convicted in landmark national security trial

  • Dec 15
  • Kanis Leung, 
    Associated Press
Vice President Sara Duterte leads the year-end celebration of the Office of the Vice President, in this photo posted on her Facebook account, Dec. 14, 2025. (Credit: Inday Sara Duterte/Facebook.)

Filipino activist priests file plunder complaint against VP Duterte

  • Dec 15
  • Joseph San Mateo

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Pope disappointed over approval of assisted suicide legislation in his home state of Illinois

  • Dec 24
  • Paolo Santalucia, 
    Associated Press

At gunpoint in Colombia, priest forced to speak for guerrillas through Church’s loudspeakers

  • Dec 24
  • Eduardo Campos Lima

Cardinal says Pope Leo visiting Spain next year is likely

  • Dec 24
  • Fionn Shiner

Bangladesh Minority Unity Front alleges government failure to provide security to minorities

  • Dec 24
  • Stephan Uttom Rozario