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People wait to enter the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts ahead of the verdict for Hong Kong activist publisher Jimmy Lai’s national security trial, in Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (Credit: Chan Long Hei/AP.)

Former Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai, a Catholic, convicted in landmark national security trial

Dec 15
Kanis Leung,
Associated Press

Vice President Sara Duterte leads the year-end celebration of the Office of the Vice President, in this photo posted on her Facebook account, Dec. 14, 2025. (Credit: Inday Sara Duterte/Facebook.)

Filipino activist priests file plunder complaint against VP Duterte

Dec 15
Joseph San Mateo

Sharif Osman Hadi, the leader of the frontline of the July 2024 uprising in Bangladesh, was shot on December 12, at noon, he is now critical. (Credit: Facebook.)

Catholics express concern over shooting of July coup leader in Bangladesh

Dec 13
Stephan Uttom Rozario

Bangladeshi migrant workers who are illegally going abroad are sent back to the country. (Credit: Stephan Uttom Rozario.)

Deportation from the US in handcuffs is inhumane, says Church in Bangladesh

Dec 11
Stephan Uttom Rozario

Interior of Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Karachi, Pakistan. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Christian pastor murdered in Muslim-majority Pakistan

Dec 10
Nirmala Carvalho

Devotees try to form a human pyramid to break a clay pot containing curd hanging above during the celebrations to mark the Hindu festival of Janmashtami in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (Credit: Rajanish Kakade/AP.)

Court in India says anti-conversion laws don’t stop preaching Christianity

Dec 10
Nirmala Carvalho

Flag of India. (Credit: Unsplash.)

Court in India tells state to make sure Christians don’t get minority benefits

Dec 4
Nirmala Carvalho

Indigenous peoples in Bangladesh are deprived in many ways and often persecuted by the majority. They are yet to get their constitutional recognition as an Indigenous people through their demands for years. (Credit: Stephan Uttom Rozario.)

Bangladesh’s indigenous minorities deprived in social safety programs

Dec 4
Stephan Uttom Rozario

Protestors walk in Manila, Philippines on Nov. 30, 2025. (Credit: Aaron Favila/AP.)

Thousands of demonstrators including Catholic clergy protest in the Philippines

Nov 30
Jim Gomez,
Associated Press

Senator Imee Marcos, eldest sister of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (Credit: Senator Imee R. Marcos/Facebook.)

Filipino bishop criticizes Marcos sister for calling President a ‘drug addict’

Nov 22
Joseph San Mateo

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