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CATHOLIC DIOCESES IN ASIA

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World needs to ensure the poor’s right to medicine
World needs to ensure the poor’s right to medicine

World needs to ensure the poor’s right to medicine

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 Stephan Uttom and Rock Ronald Rozario, Dinajpur

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Church decries Philippines shutting down biggest broadcaster
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Fukuoka Diocese seeks donations as floods pound Japan
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Justice sought for Musahar leader crushed to death in India
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Care for the poor, Cardinal Yeom tells politicians
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Jakarta cardinal to sit on Vatican interfaith body
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Caritas Pakistan reaches out to youth amid Covid-19
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Korean cardinal books in with former school
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Myanmar archbishop joins Vatican interfaith council
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Indonesian health official warns of TB threat
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Call to protect Sri Lanka's largest wetland
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Indonesian 'women's shelter rape' sparks outrage

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Call for end to violence after six die on Bangladesh hills
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Dalai Lama plans to visit Taiwan

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Thai transgender people welcome landmark moves
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The scourge of fair and lovely

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World needs to ensure the poor’s right to medicine

Multinational drug companies have to be controlled by strict laws to save lives, protect the people, and nurture health

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Ex-Salvadoran officer: 'High command' gave order to kill Jesuits in '89

Central American country's president would have known of the crimes to be committed

Decline in confession called harmful to church's mission to spread Gospel

Decline in confession called harmful to church's mission to spread Gospel

A studsy shows that 42% of Catholic adults never went to confession, and 30% made it less than once a year

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Caritas worker warns of disaster in Burkina Faso

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Does a black Jesus matter?                          

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Chinese bishop missing for 17 years feared dead

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Virtual Renaissance: Online tourism breathes new life in ailing industry

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Care for the poor, Cardinal Yeom tells politicians

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Korean cardinal books in with former school

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Myanmar archbishop joins Vatican interfaith council

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Catholics deal with 'new normal' in Malaysia

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 Ben Joseph
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 Father Reid Shelton Fernando
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 Luke Hunt
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 Michael Sainsbury
Michel Chambon
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 Michel Chambon
Myron J. Pereira
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 Quintus Colombage
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Rock Ronald Rozario
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Rock Ronald Rozario
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 Saji Thomas
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Changing lives of Bangladesh's untouchables

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Sri Lankan Catholics come in from the cold

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