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Thai priests respond to pope’s call, lead efforts to bring food...

Thailand's has seen a spike in COVID-19 cases and deaths, prompting tougher containment measures to be extended this month

SPOTLIGHT: The ‘payroll masters’ during pandemic

They are called the "payroll masters." They bring money to those in need during the pandemic. They go where others do not dare to go.

Thai volunteers provide lifeline to elderly, sick cut off by pandemic

Thailand's hospitals are being inundated with the country's biggest wave of infections so far

Italian missionary who established ‘banks of the poor’ in Bangladesh dies...

Because of the priest’s “banks for the poor,” many people managed to start small businesses and pay for their children's education

Indigenous knowledge is essential to solving the climate crisis

Any meaningful progress on saving our climate and global biodiversity requires both political and financial support of indigenous peoples

Pandemic causes rise in cases of child labor, child marriage in...

UNICEF warned that the progress achieved in past decades in terms of child protection could be erased by the consequences of the pandemic

UN climate report signals decisive moment for humanity, say green groups

Pro-environment groups warn that frontline communities will experience more "climate injustice” if countries will not limit warming

Land is life: Indigenous peoples across the world risking lives, freedoms...

It is imperative to hold states and businesses accountable for the human rights violations against the world’s indigenous peoples

Catholic priest in India rides bike to call attention to environment

Carmelite priest Prashanth Palakkappilly will take a tour of India “to spread the message of peace" and "concern for the environment"

Japanese bishop calls for peace on 76th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing

“We know that a world without nuclear weapons does not automatically make for peace,” said Archbishop Joseph Mitsuaki Takami of Nagasaki

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