The largest survey ever conducted of the Catholic Church in mainland China has indicated that the Catholic population has not kept pace with overall population growth.
An Indian politician, who along with his bodyguards severely beat up a priest in Jalandhar diocese, has surrendered to police.
On a Christmas visit to the seminary in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi City People’s Committee vice-chairman, Dao Van Binh, wished Catholics a merry and peaceful Christmas, saying that he hopes they will continue living the Gospel in solidarity with the nation while serving God.
The Korean Catholic Church has backed the Vatican’s decision to dismiss excommunicated Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo from the priesthood.
Responding to concerns from the Jewish community, Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi said in a note on Wednesday that the “venerable” title for Pope Pius XII did not derive from his “operative choices” but from his deep piety and “witness of Christian life”.
A new biography of American Benedictine Thomas Merton, who died in a freak accident near Bangkok in 1968, has raised controversy among scholars with its disclosure of the name of a young woman with whom the monk fell in love.
The devastation caused by the Dec 26, 2004 tsunami helped the Thai Church leaders learn how to collaborate on a vast scale with secular bodies and coordinate relief work among its own organizations. (UCA News)
It has been six weeks since worshippers at Beijing’s Shouwang House Church were abruptly shunted out of their long-time home in a nondescript low-rise building. (Michael Sainsbury, The Australian)
The Pontifical Mission Societies consist of the Society for the Propogation of the Faith, the Holy Child Association, the Society of St Peter Apostle and the Missionary Union of Priests and Religious.
A video featuring works of the Don Bosco fathers of the Philippines South among young people.
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