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President Rodrigo Duterte awards Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia the Order of Sikatuna with the Rank of Datu, the highest recognition given by the Philippine government to foreign ambassadors, Dec. 11, 2019. (Credit: Office of the President.)

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Cardinal Kikuchi: Catholic schools an evangelizing presence in Japan

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Sri Lankans Catholic priests protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, April 9, 2022. (Credit: Eranga Jayawardena/AP.)

Catholics in Sri Lanka support arrest of govt official over 2019 Easter attacks

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Christian villagers in India uneasy after church vandalized

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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

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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

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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

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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
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Patriarch Filaret, who fought for an independent Ukrainian Orthodox church, dies at 97

  • Mar 22
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  • Mar 22
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