After at least one explosion occurred at the ports of Beirut on Tuesday, a Maronite Catholic cardinal has said the local Church needs support to help the people of Lebanon recover from this disaster.
State-sponsored hackers have reportedly targeted Vatican computer networks in an attempt to give China an advantage in negotiations to renew a provisional deal with the Holy See.
China is using advanced technology to monitor both public and private religious gatherings, witnesses told a federal hearing on Wednesday.
Government authorities in Shanxi, China, are ordering people who receive government assistance to replace religious symbols in their homes, including pictures of Jesus, with pictures of Chairman Mao and President Xi Jinping. Refusal to comply results in the assistance being taken away.
Archbishop Moses Costa of Bangladesh’s Chittagong Archdiocese died at past nine o’clock in the morning on July 13 due to multiple strokes caused by brain hemorrhage.
Father Raymond Ambroise, former executive secretary of the Office of Social Communications of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC), succumbed to a heart attack in India on July 7.
Cardinal Joseph Zen, the bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, has warned that new security laws in the province could lead to a clamp down on religious freedom.
Korean Catholics marked the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War — a war which never technically ended — Thursday with Masses offered for reconciliation on the divided Korean peninsula.
Maryknoll missionary priest Robert F. X. Astorino, who pioneered the spread of church media in Asia, died at a New York hospital on Thursday, June 25. He was 77 years old.
Cardinal John Tong Hon, the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Hong Kong, has rejected concerns that new security and sedition laws for the province pose a risk to religious freedom.
Chinese officials reportedly arrested an elderly bishop of the underground Catholic Church last week.
India has barred U.S. representatives from investigating the county’s reported violations of religious freedom, continuing what critics call a trend of Hindu nationalism that threatens religious minorities in India.
