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Pope Leo meets Palestinian President Abbas, discuss urgent need for Gaza aid, two-state solution

Church in Asia

U.S. President Donald Trump with the Prime Minister of Japan Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo, Japan, on Oct. 28, 2025. (Credit: Mark Schiefelbein/AP.)

Japanese cardinal opposed U.S. plan to renew testing of nuclear weapons

Nov 5
Nirmala Carvalho

Cardinal Michael Felix Czerny (middle), Francesca Dona (right), regional coordinator-Asia Mainland (left), Father Joseph Savarimathu (right), taking a gift souvenir from the children. Children also provide a gift to Pope Leo through Cardinal Czerny. (Credit: Stephan Uttom Rozario.)

Cardinal highlights situation of Rohingya refugees during visit to Bangladesh

Nov 5
Stephan Uttom Rozario

People from various faiths including Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Srinagar on October 29, 2017. (Credit: AP.)

Protestants attacked in Jammu and Kashmir state in India

Oct 29
Nirmala Carvalho

In this photo taken Friday, Sept. 27, 2019, Cardinal Michael Czerny poses for portraits during an interview with The Associated Press at The Vatican. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

Catholics in Bangladesh hope cardinal will bring Vatican attention to country

Oct 29
Stephan Uttom Rozario

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

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Pope Leo meets Palestinian President Abbas, discuss urgent need for Gaza aid, two-state solution

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Japanese cardinal opposed U.S. plan to renew testing of nuclear weapons

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Cardinal highlights situation of Rohingya refugees during visit to Bangladesh

Nov 5
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