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Photos show Lebanon’s Catholics marking Palm Sunday as the shadow of war weighs heavily

Category: Church in Asia | Crux

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Bangladesh Bishops decline government stipend for Catholic clerics

Mar 23
Stephan Uttom Rozario

New laws in two Indian states threaten religious liberty

Mar 23
Nirmala Carvalho

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

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Photos show Lebanon’s Catholics marking Palm Sunday as the shadow of war weighs heavily

Mar 30
Hussein Malla,
Emilio Morenatti, Associated Press

Spain begins Holy Week with processions, palm branches and familiar faces

Mar 30
Sergio Rodrigo,
Teresa Medrano, Associated Press

Catholic cardinal refused entry to Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem

Mar 29
Crux Now Staff

In wrangling dark matter, some scientists find inspiration in religion

Mar 29
Deepa Bharath,
Associated Press