Asia This Week - UCA News

Catholics in India have urged the federal government to come clean on the custodial death of Father Stan Swamy, after US-based experts revealed the elderly Jesuit priest’s computer was hacked to plant false evidence.

Evidence planted to implicate Indian Jesuit who died in prison

Asian governments suppress peaceful protests

The right to dissent is under attack across the Asia-Pacific region as ruling regimes use repressive laws and brute force to silence protesters

Published: December 09, 2022 11:19 AM GMT

Updated: December 09, 2022 11:25 AM GMT

Vatican says China breached secret agreement

Vatican-China’s 2018 deal on appointment of bishops hit a hard rock as Chinese authorities transferred and installed a bishop without papal mandate, prompting an unusual reaction from the Vatican.

Published: December 02, 2022 11:06 AM GMT

Updated: December 02, 2022 12:51 PM GMT

Deepening discord over Indian Church's liturgical dispute

The Kerala-based Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Church is divided as archdiocese threatens to snap ties with the Vatican

Published: November 25, 2022 11:20 AM GMT

Updated: November 25, 2022 11:49 AM GMT

Indian Christians on target in the guise of conversions

Christians in India continue to face accusations and harassment from right-wing Hindu groups over alleged forced religious conversions.

Published: November 18, 2022 11:09 AM GMT

Updated: November 18, 2022 11:10 AM GMT

Pope reiterates appeal to end war in Myanmar

What does war do? It destroys, it destroys humanity, destroys everything, Pope Francis said as he once again called for dialogue to end conflict and loss of lives in Myanmar, ahead of the ASEAN leaders’ summit in Cambodia.

Published: November 11, 2022 11:29 AM GMT

Updated: November 16, 2022 10:35 AM GMT

Pope's Bahrain visit fosters Christian-Muslim dialogue

Pope Francis’ historic, three-day apostolic visit to the monarchy in Western Asia aims to promote dialogue, unity, and peace.

Published: November 04, 2022 11:08 AM GMT

Updated: November 16, 2022 10:39 AM GMT

Catholic leaders contemplate Church’s Mission in Asia

The Church in Asia searches for new ways to make progress in the multi-religious continent as Catholic leaders ponder over the emerging realities and ways to revise their pastoral plans and priorities for the vast continent during the ongoing FABC general conference in Bangkok.

Published: October 28, 2022 12:00 PM GMT

Updated: October 28, 2022 12:01 PM GMT

Vatican appointee faces boycott in Indian archdiocese

The unprecedented move by priests and laity of Kerala-based Syro-Malabar Church may amount to 'defying papal authority’

Published: October 21, 2022 11:08 AM GMT

Updated: October 21, 2022 11:12 AM GMT

Asian Catholic bishops look to ‘renew and revitalize’

The golden jubilee celebrations of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) got underway in Bangkok on Oct. 12

Published: October 14, 2022 11:25 AM GMT

Updated: December 29, 2022 09:29 AM GMT

Another journalist killing adds to grim toll in Philippines

Percival Mabasa, a hard-hitting radio commentator, is the latest in a long line of targeted killings of newspersons in Philippines, a Catholic-majority nation often dubbed as one of the deadliest places in the world for journalists.

Published: October 07, 2022 11:08 AM GMT

Updated: October 07, 2022 11:54 AM GMT