Category: Asia – Pacific
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Pakistani woman sentenced to death for allegedly blaspheming Muhammed
By Andrés Henríquez ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 3, 2024 / 07:00 am A Christian mother of four has been sentenced to death by a trial judge at the Special Court in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, for allegedly spreading blasphemous messages via the messaging service WhatsApp. She must also pay a fine of 300,000 Pakistani rupees (about…
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New Maori Queen in New Zealand is Catholic
By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Sep 7, 2024 / 08:00 am The Maori people, the Indigenous population of mainland New Zealand, have crowned a new queen after the death of their king — and she’s Catholic. King Tuheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero VII died on Aug. 30 at the age of 69. His death came…
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Pope Francis to find a lively and simple faith in Papua New Guinea
By Andrés Henríquez Caracas, Venezuela, Aug 23, 2024 / 06:30 am The first Catholic missionaries arrived in Papua New Guinea just 70 years ago. In a place where the faith is so recent, Father Martin Prado, amissionary of the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE) who does pastoral work in the country, highlighted the conversions…
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The Nagasaki mission house built by St. Maximilian Kolbe that survived the atomic bomb
By Gigi Duncan Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 9, 2024 / 05:00 am When the American military dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945, the city was completely devastated — more than 40,000 people were instantly killed by the blast as well as about 60,000 more in the following five years as…