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Anwar Ibrahim — is he for real? Malaysia's prime minister-in-waiting shows signs of irritability as reformist mask starts to slip
Filipino 'sea gypsy' braves storm to escape poverty trap Indigenous teacher using education as tool to save his tribe from misery, smash stereotype of Badjao as beggars
Can new media revive Christian publishing in India? What is significant is that missionaries didn't stop with Christian literature but expanded its scope to include local material
Mindanao nuns warn of 'dangerous times' for missionaries Missionaries are reportedly 'living in fear of their lives and safety' due to alleged harassment from security forces
Abused Indonesian migrant worker becomes rights fighter 'I didn't deserve to be a slave,' says woman brutalized by Hong Kong boss and later cited by 'Time' magazine in top 100 list

Mindanao nuns warn of 'dangerous times' for missionaries

Missionaries are reportedly 'living in fear of their lives and safety' due to alleged harassment from security forces

Interfaith gathering demands peaceful Indonesian polls

Thousands sign declaration calling on candidates not to resort to divisive election campaigns

Indian priest linked to bishop's rape case found dead

Family suspect foul play after witness against Bishop Franco Mulakkal dies suddenly in Jalandhar

Malaysia's PM bans child marriage

Minimum age for wedlock set at 18 following outrage over man marrying 11-year-old Thai girl

Bangladesh honors cherished Italian priest's final wish

Missionary Father Rigon who spent over 60 years in the South Asian country buried there one year after his death

India mourns as train accident kills 60 at Hindu festival

Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas says tragedy underlines the need to enforce safety norms during celebrations

Malaysia's PM bans child marriage Minimum age for wedlock set at 18 following outrage over man marrying 11-year-old Thai girl

Bangladesh honors cherished Italian priest's final wish Missionary Father Rigon who spent over 60 years in the South Asian country buried there one year after his death

Interfaith gathering demands peaceful Indonesian polls Thousands sign declaration calling on candidates not to resort to divisive election campaigns

Mindanao nuns warn of 'dangerous times' for missionaries

Missionaries are reportedly 'living in fear of their lives and safety' due to alleged harassment from security forces

Interfaith gathering demands peaceful Indonesian polls

Thousands sign declaration calling on candidates not to resort to divisive election campaigns

Indian priest linked to bishop's rape case found dead

Family suspect foul play after witness against Bishop Franco Mulakkal dies suddenly in Jalandhar

Malaysia's PM bans child marriage

Minimum age for wedlock set at 18 following outrage over man marrying 11-year-old Thai girl

Bangladesh honors cherished Italian priest's final wish

Missionary Father Rigon who spent over 60 years in the South Asian country buried there one year after his death

India mourns as train accident kills 60 at Hindu festival

Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas says tragedy underlines the need to enforce safety norms during celebrations

Christmas season already underway in Catholic Philippines

September start due to businessmen who want to exploit Filipino culture, bishop says

In Vietnam's Central Highlands faith is spreading

Lay ethnic Jarai missionaries spread Catholicism despite state antagonism

Ending India's gap between rich and poor Catholics

Special program brings rich and less well off together to build relationships, the church and society

Sri Lankans flock to St. Vaz relic

The missionary braved a smallpox epidemic in the 17th century to help save Catholicism from a Calvinistic Dutch purge

Rohingya fear death as India begins deportation

Modi government accused of ignoring international obligations as 40,000 face return to uncertain future in Myanmar

Sri Lanka's 'homeless' fight for basic rights

Fishermen and women from marginalized communities appeal to government to fast-track 'Shelter for all by 2025' policy

Dayak priest utilizes tradition

Indonesian church renovated with flair and passion through woodcarvings that tell biblical stories

Chinese Party-State Tightens Noose on Religion

More church crosses demolished in China Chinese officials have this month ordered the demolition of crosses in three dioceses

Vatican 'plans to interfere' in China despite landmark deal Religious affairs official in Hubei also claims that some Catholics have 'lost their minds'

China's Orwellian control of religious websites Beijing now waging war on religious freedom online as state clampdown continues

Children latest casualty of China's Uyghur crackdown With 1 million ethnic Muslims in 're-education' camps, Beijing shows scant sign of easing campaign against minorities

Beijing targets Hong Kong media, is church next?

Expulsion of foreign correspondent and banning of pro-democracy party shows how Beijing is tightening its 'red line'

Time for Indian Christians not to turn the other cheek

Church leaders must become more court savvy to stem and prevent attacks both physical and legal in nature

Business as usual as Lao further squeezes religions

Critics say the constitution is being violated to suppress freedom of worship and expression

Letter from Rome

The Synod of Bishops is missing the forest for the trees

When children are set free

Imprisoned boys in the central Philippines given freedom, dignity and the chance of a happier future

October 17, 2018

China economics spurs Myanmar religious repression

Bold Chinese plan for economic 'corridor' changes game for the civil war in Myanmar's Kachin and northern Shan states

October 16, 2018

Youth synod of old men

Church crises over youth, celibate clergy and a lack of leadership roles for women

October 16, 2018

VOICELESS OF ASIA

'Land dispute' sparks massacre of 9 in Philippines

Women, teenagers among victims of mass slaying over what authorities believe was over land

Bangladesh hunts suspected militants after deadly police raids

Two suspected Islamic militants killed by counterterrorism units

Philippine congregation decries 'red tagging' of nun

The Society of Oblates of Notre Dame calls accusation against Sister Susan Bolanio 'baseless and malicious'

Vietnam upholds Catholic activist's harsh sentence

Human Right Watch describes his 20-year prison term as one of the severest in an intensified crackdown on dissent

Indian priest linked to bishop's rape case found dead

Family suspect foul play after witness against Bishop Franco Mulakkal dies suddenly in Jalandhar

Pope says he's open to visiting North Korea

Tells South Korean leader Moon Jae-in he would go if official invitation is offered

Filipino kids join global prayer for end to drug killings

Children from 1,200 parishes and 700 schools in 41 dioceses across Philippines take part in worldwide event

Church groups seek more aid for quake-hit Sulawesi

Need for help on Indonesian island is just as great as it was when disaster struck three weeks ago, Caritas says

Lack of progress fighting hunger is shameful, pope says

Pontiff sends message to UN on World Food Day that the 'poor cannot wait' until 2030 for a 'zero hunger world'

Child-killer rapist hung in Pakistan

Call for the addressing of mental illness and other underlying causes of the scourge

Activists demand Filipino poll candidates put poor first

Philippines marks World Food Day with plea to prospective politicians to make sure people's basic needs are kept

Malaysian court bars unilateral child conversions

Latest case expected to add pressure on govt to close loopholes in existing laws for greater protection of children

Children of Philippine drug war victims join global prayer

'One Million Children Praying the Rosary' is a show of support for young people in countries where Christians are persecuted

India's female feticide not forgotten on 'Day of the Girl Child'

At least 12.7 million sex-selective abortions were conducted in India between 2000 and 2014

CHURCH & SOCIETY

Vatican 'plans to interfere' in China despite landmark deal

Religious affairs official in Hubei also claims that some Catholics have 'lost their minds'

US missionary who helped youths break from drugs passes away

Holy Cross Brother Ronald Drahozal remembered by Bangladeshis as a pioneer and a guiding light

India mourns as train accident kills 60 at Hindu festival

Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas says tragedy underlines the need to enforce safety norms during celebrations

MULTIMEDIA BY TOPIC

Life as a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh

Bangladesh and Myanmar signed a refugee repatriation deal last year but to date not a single Rohingya has been repatriated

Adoring the Blessed Sacrament in Vietnam

Adoration events have become major festivals for Catholics in the north of the country

Filipinos honor 'Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary'

Filipino Catholics believe the Virgin's intercession saved them from invasion by the Protestant Dutch

Rohingya refugees get on with life in Bangladesh

One year after a mass exodus from Myanmar, Kutupalong camp houses more than 400,000 people

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