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  • Myanmar anti-coup protesters launch ‘Easter egg strike’

    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.

    By Associated Press
  • Good Friday and virus lockdown empty Manila’s streets

    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.

    By Associated Press
  • Cardinal urges hope as Myanmar undergoes own ‘way of the cross’

    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.

    By Elise Ann Allen
  • Harassment of nuns in India becomes election issue in Kerala

    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.

    By Nirmala Carvalho
  • UN condemns Palm Sunday `terrorist act’ on Indonesian church

    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.

    By Associated Press
  • Indonesia’s cardinal praises national response to suicide bombing

    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.

    By Nirmala Carvalho
  • After Bloody Saturday, Myanmar Catholics pray for peace, those who died

    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.

    By Catholic News Service
  • Newlywed militant suspects blamed in Indonesia church attack

    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.

    By Niniek Karmini and Yusuf Wahil
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