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Police walk behind a cordon-offed area inside the Philippine Senate premises in Parsay City on May `14, 2026. (Credit: Gerard Carreon/AP.)

Filipino bishops condemn violence after Senate shooting incident

  • May 16
  • Paterno R. Esmaquel II
Democratic advocate Jimmy Lai leaves Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal on Feb. 1, 2021. (Credit: Vincent Yu/AP.)

Trump says Xi is considering a detained pastor’s case, but freeing Catholic activist Jimmy Lai is ‘tough’

  • May 16
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    Didi Tang
Dzukou valley near the Manipur-Nagaland border in India. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Catholic archbishop calls for calm after three Baptist ministers killed in northeastern India

  • May 13
  • Nirmala Carvalho
Cardinal Charles Maung Bo with the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference in Sydney, Australia, on May 8, 2026. (Credit: Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.)

Myanmar experiencing ‘polycrisis’ five years after military coup

  • May 11
  • Nirmala Carvalho
The country’s most prominent political clan is the family of the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos, with the election of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as the country’s 17th president in 2022. (Credit: Presidential Communications Office.)

In new signature drive, Filipino Church breaks bonds of political dynasties

  • May 11
  • Paterno R. Esmaquel II
Pope Leo XIV arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Sept. 10, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Card. Kikuchi on what’s coming in the Leonine pontificate

  • May 9
  • Nirmala Carvalho

Card. Poola: Leonine era continues under sign of peace

  • May 9
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Rajasthan Legislative Assembly in India. (Credit: Wikipedia.)

Four Catholics arrested after Hindu activists disrupt Mass in India

  • May 6
  • Nirmala Carvalho
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Interview: Indian bishops say hostility toward Christians is rising

  • May 6
  • Nirmala Carvalho
Father Gerardo Fortich Saco Jr. was supposed to be the eighth bishop of the Diocese of Tagbilaran in the central Philippines. (Credit: Diocese of Tagbilaran.)

Filipino priest backs out of ordination as bishop, cites ‘human limitations’

  • May 6
  • Paterno R. Esmaquel II

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Pope to visit France in September with a stop at UNESCO

  • May 16
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New Orleans kept accused priest in pulpit despite complaints: misconduct ‘involved adults’, archdiocese admits

  • May 16
  • Christopher R. Altieri

The Vatican has said a lot about artificial intelligence. A primer ahead of the pope’s encyclical

  • May 16
  • Nicole Winfield

Trump administration sues Catholic diocese to seize land near El Paso for border barrier

  • May 16
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