Asia

MUAN, South Korea (OSV News) — A passenger plane arriving from Bangkok exploded after skidding off the runway at a South Korean airport in Muan Dec. 29, crashing into a …

(OSV News) — As many as 3,000 Catholic school children from poor families in the Philippines made their pop music debut in a new Christmas song by some members of the …

(OSV News) — As the United Nations’ annual climate conference kicks off, two Catholic humanitarian agency executives told OSV News that the world’s poorest nations must be given the tools …

DHAKA, Bangladesh (OSV News) — Talitha Kum Bangladesh is empowering religious sisters and youth communities in the South Asian country to fight against human trafficking, child marriage and forced marriage …

DHAKA, Bangladesh (OSV News) — Amid signs of changes and more religious inclusivity in the country, church leaders in Bangladesh called for Easter Sunday to be a public holiday. The …

BENGALURU, India (OSV News) — About 40 Christian leaders who gathered in mid-September expressed “serious anxiety” over “the increasing atrocities on Christians and other minorities,” and they demanded protection for …

SYDNEY (OSV News) — Australian volunteers working in East Timor say excitement is growing ahead of Pope Francis’ visit there in September, when more than half of the mostly Catholic …

By Ronald O. Reyes MANILA, Philippines (OSV News) — A church official in the Philippines has joined others to celebrate a historic double gold that gymnast Carlos Yulo won at …

(OSV News) — The heroic work and witness of the Eastern churches in some of the world’s most conflict-ridden regions was highlighted at the annual Catholic Media Conference held in …

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (OSV News) — The crisis-ridden Syro-Malabar Catholic Church in India has set a deadline to solve its decades-old liturgy dispute. The church based in southern Kerala state has …