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The Singapore Archdiocese announced on May 6 that it will not solemnize weddings online, or via video link, even as the government allowed it under a new legislation.

An Indian state on May 6 halted trains taking stranded migrant laborers home so that work on construction sites could restart, a move widely condemned as amounting to forced labor.

A woman in China’s central province of Hubei has been sentenced to four years in prison for “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble” using her social media accounts.

The poor and the marginalised were always going to be in the firing line during the coronavirus pandemic.

Police in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen raided a Protestant church gathering at the weekend and detained at least nine people.

Pope Francis has prayed for families around the world who are quarantined in their homes in the midst of the pandemic.

As food and water ran out, they began to die of starvation, thirst, and beatings

Pope Francis has called for global unity in the search for a vaccine against the new coronavirus disease that continues to claim the lives of thousands of people around the world.

A Filipino Augustinian missionary in Spain has passed away due to complications from the coronavirus.

Cardinal Tagle, 62, joins the ranks of 13 other cardinal bishops — 10 of them are from the Latin Church and three cardinal patriarchs from the Oriental Rites.