The Vatican has appointed a new bishop for India’s Jalandhar Diocese in Punjab, years after Bishop Franco Mulakkal stepped down despite a court clearing him of charges of raping a nun.
Catholic priests and nuns joined hundreds of activists demanding to stop a geothermal project on the predominantly Catholic Flores island in Indonesia, saying the project violates villagers' land rights and damages the environment.
Sisters in the Hue Archdiocese give allowances of one million dong (US$42) per month to 17 psychiatric patients as a way to stave off their hunger and undernourishment.
A group of Catholic nuns in Thailand have launched a feeding program in the country's largest slum in the capital Bangkok to assist hundreds of poor people for a token fee.
The Missionaries of Charity have closed a home for orphaned and abandoned children in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh following the expiration of its land lease.
