The 85-year-old entrepreneur had transformed the Djarum cigarette factory he inherited from his father into an economic giant with operations in various sectors, including the country’s leading ...

The Catholic mission commemorates a century of pastoral presence and service. A centre for education and healthcare open to people of all faiths in a region marked by conflict. During the Indo-Pakista ...

Some 25,000 faithful welcomed Pope Leo XIV in St Peter's Square for today’s general audience. In his catechesis on the Constitution Lumen Gentium, the pope said that, “every baptized p ...

Today’s headlines: three Palestinian women have been killed by an Iranian missile; Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has been reappointed by Parliament.; A new report highlights the parado ...

The activist and former trade unionist spoke at his subversion trial regarding his role in the Hong Kong Alliance, which organised vigils in memory of the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre. He ...

The conflict with Iran has disrupted gas supplies through the Strait of Hormuz, doubling prices in Asia. From Bangladesh to Japan, governments are reopening coal-fired power plants to contain costs, p ...

China offers Taiwan reunification in exchange for energy security; In India, 14 Muslim youths have been arrested for breaking their fast on the Ganges in Varanasi; I ...

The interfaith dinner, organised by the Archdiocese’s Commission for Dialogue during the final days of Ramadan – which this ...

Whilst Hezbollah continues to drag the whole of Lebanon into its “final battle” with Israel, dividing politics and society, the Christian villages of the South are clinging to their land.

The Cambodian part of the process for the beatification of Bishop Joseph Chhmar Salas and 11 other victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide ended today. Since 2015, dozens of testimonies have been collecte ...

Tajikistan, a country with close ties to Tehran due to shared ethnic origins, views the conflict in the Middle East with ...

According to Kabul, a drug rehab facility in the Afghan capital is also hit in the latest Pakistani airstrikes, with hundreds ...