Category: Bangladesh

Native clergy embrace legacy of Bangladesh’s foreign missionaries

by bcadmin | Dec 11, 2021 | Bangladesh, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, Ethnicity, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, News | 0 |

As a 5-year-old, Paulus Murmu could not have imagined a future other than becoming a cane craft worker like his parents. But today, at 51, the man from the Mahali tribal community is a seasoned missioner of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

Pope sends aid to those hit by disasters in Haiti, Bangladesh, Vietnam

by bcadmin | Aug 25, 2021 | Bangladesh, COVID-19 pandemic, Deadly earthquake, Dicastery for Integral Human Development, Earthquake, Haiti, News, U.S. & World News, Vietnam | 0 |

Pope Francis will be sending nearly a quarter of a million dollars to help people in Haiti, who are struggling in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake during a global pandemic.

Bangladesh’s tiny Catholic community uses its resources to fight COVID-19

by bcadmin | Aug 24, 2021 | Bangladesh, Caritas, Catholic Church, Catholic healthcare, Catholic hospitals, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News | 0 |

As the COVID-19 situation worsens in Bangladesh, the country’s tiny Catholic community has been playing a vital role in battling the outbreak, despite limited resources.

Pope sends aid to those hit by disasters in Haiti, Bangladesh, Vietnam

by bcadmin | Aug 24, 2021 | Bangladesh, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development, Haiti, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Vietnam | 0 |

Pope Francis will be sending nearly a quarter of a million dollars to help people in Haiti, who are struggling in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake during a global pandemic.

Caritas Bangladesh aims to keep people safe after fire at refugee camp

by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2021 | Bangladesh, Burma, Caritas, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, Myanmar, News, Refugees, Rohingya | 0 |

Even as the last of five fires was still out of control among clusters of tents and shelters that house 600,000 Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Abdullah Fuad, head of programs for Caritas Bangladesh, was thinking of the women and children who have now endured one more disaster.

In Bangladesh, health workers had 10 times more vaccines than people

by bcadmin | Feb 13, 2021 | Bangladesh, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Vaccinations, Vaccines | 0 |

A priest in Bangladesh has blamed misinformation and lack of promotion for the low turnout as the government’s mass COVID-19 vaccination program began.