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Pope urges Catholic teachers to focus less on professional outcomes, more on spiritual lives

Category: Church in Asia | Crux

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Indian Hindu devotees perform rituals in the the river Brahmaputra during the Chhath Puja festival in Guwahati, India, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (Credit: Anupam Nath/AP.)

Supreme Court in India questions anti-conversion laws

Oct 28
Nirmala Carvalho

Catholics protest in front of De Mazenod Church and St. Eugene’s School called on the authorities of the Dhaka North City Corporation to immediately stop the construction of the garbage disposal facility on October 21, 2025, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Credit: Stephan Uttom Rozario.)

Citizens hold human chain against construction of garbage facility near Church in Bangladesh

Oct 22
Stephan Uttom Rozario

A Sunday prayer service at Ishwar Dham, a Catholic-run prayer center in Uttar Pradesh. (Credit: Father Vineet Vincent Pereira/courtesy to Crux.)

Christian pastor arrested in India’s largest state

Oct 22
Nirmala Carvalho

Card. Kikuchi remembers Japanese PM Murayama

Oct 21
Nirmala Carvalho

Supporters of National Citizen Party (NCP) listen to the party leader Nahid Islam during a political rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025. (Credit: Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP.)

Bangladesh’s Christian community seeks representation in the next parliamentary election

Oct 16
Stephan Uttom Rozario

A child with other people walks around a cage to look at bugs at an exhibition devoted to insects in Tokyo, Japan, July 31, 2025. (Credit: Yuri Kageyama/AP.)

Low birthrate affecting Catholic Church in Japan

Oct 16
Nirmala Carvalho

Japan's death chamber. (Credit: AP.)

Cardinal calls for Japan to stop using the death penalty

Oct 15
Nirmala Carvalho

Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, holding his wooden crozier, joins anti-corruption protesters wearing white at the Trillion Peso March in Quezon City, Philippines, Sept. 21, 2025. (Credit: Roy Lagarde/CBCP News.)

Catholic leaders urge Filipinos to wear white against corruption

Oct 14
Joseph San Mateo

Fate of US citizen arrested in India uncertain

Oct 12
Nirmala Carvalho

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle in the Vatican press office on Sept. 27, 2017. (Credit: Andrew Medechini/AP.)

Card. Tagle rebukes corrupt politicians in Philippines

Oct 12
Joseph San Mateo

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