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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
Sharif Osman Hadi, the leader of the frontline of the July 2024 uprising in Bangladesh, was shot on December 12, at noon, he is now critical. (Credit: Facebook.)

Catholics express concern over shooting of July coup leader in Bangladesh

  • Dec 13
  • Stephan Uttom Rozario
Bangladeshi migrant workers who are illegally going abroad are sent back to the country. (Credit: Stephan Uttom Rozario.)

Deportation from the US in handcuffs is inhumane, says Church in Bangladesh

  • Dec 11
  • Stephan Uttom Rozario
Interior of Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Karachi, Pakistan. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Christian pastor murdered in Muslim-majority Pakistan

  • Dec 10
  • Nirmala Carvalho
Devotees try to form a human pyramid to break a clay pot containing curd hanging above during the celebrations to mark the Hindu festival of Janmashtami in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (Credit: Rajanish Kakade/AP.)

Court in India says anti-conversion laws don’t stop preaching Christianity

  • Dec 10
  • Nirmala Carvalho

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Turning Point youth conference begins in Phoenix without founder Charlie Kirk

  • Dec 18
  • Jonathan J. Cooper, 
    Associated Press

Pope names fellow Chicagoan, Bishop Ronald Hicks, as new archbishop of New York

  • Dec 18
  • Nicole Winfield, 
    Associated Press

New York is set to legalize medically assisted suicide with ‘guardrails,’ governor says

  • Dec 18
  • Anthony Izaguirre, 
    Michael Hill, Associated Press

Bangladesh police to take special security measures for Christmas

  • Dec 18
  • Stephan Uttom Rozario