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The earthquake hit the country at a time of uncertainty due to the ongoing civil war between resistance groups and Myanmar’s governing military junta, which overthrew the previous democratically elected …

“People urgently need shelter, medical care, and water and sanitation support,” said the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

(OSV News) — Pope Francis offered prayers and expressed deep concern over the deadly wildfires in South Korea, which have claimed at least 28 lives and caused widespread damage. The fire …

A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit the Mandalay-Sagaing region in southwestern Myanmar, causing multistory buildings to collapse and raising concerns about a significant death toll.

The Charity Fund for hospital was launched March 24 in the capital city of Dhaka to provide medical care to the poorest patients in Bangladesh.

The military junta in Myanmar’s strife-torn Kachin state allegedly burned down a Catholic cathedral dedicated to St. Patrick March 16, the eve of the saint’s feast.

Former President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines was arrested March 11 and detained at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

A pastoral center on the grounds of St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Nan Hlaing, located in the northern Diocese of Banmaw, was targeted and destroyed by two aerial bombs.

Dau Kieu Giang baptized a sick child when she was an atheist and Communist Party member, but she is getting ready to be baptized herself at the Easter Vigil.

India’s Supreme Court agrees to hear an appeal seeking to end discrimination against socially poor Dalit Catholics in a parish in southern India.