Tag: Women
Vietnamese Church expands support for pregnant women in crisis
Catholic groups in Vietnam expand shelters and accompaniment programs to support pregnant women facing serious challenges
Holy See reaffirms need to combat all forms of violence against...
Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher points out the challenges that women and girls still face, and the need to defend their equal dignity
UN chief hails Papua New Guinea as model of peace, diversity,...
Guterres highlighted Bougainville’s peace process, PNG’s climate leadership, and women’s inclusion as vital lessons for the world.
Pope appoints Sr. Simona Brambilla as Vatican’s first female prefect
Sr. Brambilla was the second woman to be appointed Secretary of a Vatican Dicastery, following the 2021 appointment of Sr. Alessandra Smerilli
Synod rules out women deacons; meetings called to be ‘laboratories of...
"There is still no room for a positive decision by the magisterium regarding the access of women to the diaconate"
Christian family faces threats to drop gang-rape charges in Pakistan
The police recovered the girl on September 5, and a medical examination confirmed she had been gang-raped and physically tortured
Toxic, deadly, cheap: Life for women gold miners in the Philippines
One in three of the illegal mining workforce is female - and women are 90 times more at risk of dying on the job than men
Nuns help empower women through handicrafts
"These products don't have much demand in Bangladesh, but people of Europe and Canada like these very much"
Southeast Asian working mothers struggle for work-life balance, survey reveals
About 44 percent of those surveyed wish for greater recognition of the challenges faced by working mothers.
In Asia Pacific, rise in public debt is hurting women’s access...
Gabriela assailed how Filipino women have been suffering due to decades of privatization and low prioritization of public health care
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