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Mass Stipends for Priests in Bangladesh
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Approximately 89 percent of the 171.5 million inhabitants of Bangladesh are Muslim, while Catholics account for no more than a tiny minority of 0.2 percent. ...
An Intensive Outreach Program for an Archdiocese in Bangladesh
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The Archdiocese of Dhaka in Bangladesh serves a population of just 85,000 Catholics. As in all the country, Catholics make up only a tiny minority, ...
Bangladesh: Radicalization driving discrimination and attacks against Christians
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With Islamist groups gaining political influence in Bangladesh, Church sources are increasingly concerned about the treatment of Christians and ongoing attacks on Catholic schools. In ...
A New Village Chapel in Bangladesh
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The Diocese of Sylhet in Bangladesh was established in 2011. There are 20,000 Catholics in the territory, which has a total population of 14 million. ...
ACN helps Jesuits open first novitiate in Bangladesh
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On July 16th, thirty years after returning to Bangladesh, the Jesuits are opening a new novitiate in the South Asian country, where Christians are a ...
An Educational Program for Laypeople in Bangladesh
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Almost 90 percent of the 170 million people in Bangladesh are Muslim. Christians account for just a tiny minority of well under one percent and ...
Success Story: A parish house for a new parish in Bangladesh
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Dinajpur is one of the poorest of the eight Catholic dioceses in Bangladesh. As they do everywhere in this overwhelmingly Muslim country, Catholics represent only ...
Bangladesh: the financial challenge of building churches
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“Hundreds of Catholics from several villages gathered and jostled for a place to sit, and many were forced to stand outside. The scene stuck in ...
Success Story: A New Chapel for a Village in Bangladesh
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Sonka is the poorest and remotest of the 35 villages of the parish of Nijpara in the Diocese of Dinajpur. While it is more than ...
A Village Chapel for Catholics in Bangladesh
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For many years now, the Catholic faithful in the village of Noyanagar, in Bangladesh, have been longing for a new chapel. The tiny mud chapel ...