U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan may risk civil war, says priest in Kabul
- Apr 16, 2021
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Myanmar anti-coup protesters launch ‘Easter egg strike’
- Apr 4, 2021
Anti-coup demonstrators in Myanmar, adept at finding themes to tie together protests nationwide, took to the streets holding painted eggs in a nod to the Easter holiday on Sunday.
Good Friday and virus lockdown empty Manila’s streets
- Apr 2, 2021
Filipinos marked Good Friday, one of the most solemn holidays in Asia’s largest Catholic nation, with deserted streets and churches following a strict lockdown to slow down the spread of the coronavirus.
Cardinal urges hope as Myanmar undergoes own ‘way of the cross’
- Apr 2, 2021
In his Easter message, Myanmar Cardinal Charles Bo of Yangon drew a parallel between Jesus’s own suffering and death and his country’s fight for democracy.
Harassment of nuns in India becomes election issue in Kerala
- Apr 1, 2021
An incident when four religious sisters were detained on a train India has become an election issue in the state of Kerala, which goes to the polls to elect their state assembly on April 6.
UN condemns Palm Sunday `terrorist act’ on Indonesian church
- Mar 31, 2021
The U.N. Security Council late Tuesday condemned a bombing at an Indonesian church on Palm Sunday as a “cowardly terrorist attack” and called for the perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors to be held accountable.
Indonesia’s cardinal praises national response to suicide bombing
- Mar 30, 2021
A suicide bombing at the Catholic cathedral in Makassar “shocked everybody in Indonesia, not only Catholics,” according to the country’s top prelate.
After Bloody Saturday, Myanmar Catholics pray for peace, those who died
- Mar 29, 2021
While Catholics in Myanmar observed Palm Sunday, many in the Buddhist-majority country were crying at the funerals of more than 100 people killed the previous day.
Newlywed militant suspects blamed in Indonesia church attack
- Mar 29, 2021
A recently married couple with suspected militant links used pressure cooker bombs to blow themselves up outside a Catholic cathedral during Palm Sunday Mass, Indonesian officials said Monday.
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