Church in Asia/Oceania

Japan Catholic Church to launch national review of abuse cases
- Associated Press, Church in Asia/Oceania
- Apr 11, 2019
Japan’s Catholic bishops have announced they’ll conduct a review of clerical abuse cases in all 16 of the country’s dioceses.
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Pope expresses ‘heartfelt solidarity’ with NZ Muslims after mosque attacks
- Church in Asia/Oceania, Vatican
- Mar 15, 2019
Pope Francis on Friday expressed “heartfelt solidarity” for New Zealand and its Muslim community in the wake of shooting attacks on two mosques that left 49 people dead.
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This year’s World Day of the Sick puts Mother Teresa front and center
- Church in Asia/Oceania
- Feb 10, 2019
This year’s World Day of the Sick kicked off early in Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, the city associated with Mother Teresa, the Church’s great patron saint of the sick.
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Vatican’s China policy not a competition between two sides, says official
- Catholic News Service, Church in Asia/Oceania
- Feb 4, 2019
The Catholic Church’s process of reconciliation and rapprochement in China is not a “competition or who is right, but of brothers and sisters in the faith, who all find themselves in a common house,” said Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
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Philippine troops battle Muslim militants after church blast
- Associated Press, Church in Asia/Oceania
- Feb 2, 2019
A Philippine military spokesman says at least five soldiers and three Muslim militants were killed in a fierce battle as troops pressed a new offensive in the south following a deadly church bombing blamed on Islamic State group-linked gunmen.
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Defector accounts paint picture of faithful in North Korea
- Associated Press, Church in Asia/Oceania
- Feb 1, 2019
North Korea’s treatment of Christians could become a bigger issue if North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s expected second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump produces significant progress, and if Pope Francis follows through on his expressed willingness to take up Kim’s invitation to visit North Korea.
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