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Footnotes and tea leaves: Pope Leo and Amoris Laetitia

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President Rodrigo Duterte awards Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia the Order of Sikatuna with the Rank of Datu, the highest recognition given by the Philippine government to foreign ambassadors, Dec. 11, 2019. (Credit: Office of the President.)

New US nuncio Gabriele Caccia brings lessons from Duterte’s Philippines

Mar 18
Paterno R. Esmaquel II

Religious minorities in Bangladesh blame Islamist hardliners for recent violence

Mar 17
Stephan Uttom Rozario

Cardinal Kikuchi: Catholic schools an evangelizing presence in Japan

Mar 15
Nirmala Carvalho

Iran war drives fuel crisis in Bangladesh as holidays approach

Mar 12
Stephan Uttom Rozario

Sri Lankans Catholic priests protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, April 9, 2022. (Credit: Eranga Jayawardena/AP.)

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Catholics in Sri Lanka support arrest of govt official over 2019 Easter attacks

Mar 11
Nirmala Carvalho

Christian villagers in India uneasy after church vandalized

Mar 7
Nirmala Carvalho

A firefighter extinguishes a burned shop at a building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Credit: Hussein Malla/AP.)

In war-torn Lebanon, a Filipino Jesuit stands with abandoned migrants

Mar 6
Paterno R. Esmaquel II

Then-Archbishop Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo speaks during a briefing about the assembly of the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican Oct. 20, 2023. (Credit: Credit: Lola Gomez/CNS.)

Japanese cardinal says a ‘polite persecution’ faces Christians in Japan

Feb 28
Nirmala Carvalho

Cardinal Jaime Sin hosted both of Pope John Paul II’s visits to the Philippines in 1981 and 1995. (Credit: Ryansean071/Wikimedia Commons.)

Filipinos remember prophetic Cardinal Sin on 40th People Power anniversary

Feb 27
Paterno R. Esmaquel II

Sri Lankan police officers secure the area of exploded St. Anthony’s Church on Easter Sunday attacks in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 28, 2019. (Credit: Eranga Jayawardena/AP.)

Sri Lanka police arrest former intelligence chief in connection with 2019 bombings

Feb 25
Krishan Francis,
Associated Press

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