UCA News Weekly Summary, October 30, 2026

It is to us as servants and for the sake of being servants that God gives us talents. Let us not bury them, but put them forth for the whole world.About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com  For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.comTo contribute please visit www.ucanews.com/donateOn X Follow Or connect through DM at : x.com/ucanewsTo view Video features please visit https://www.youtube.com/@ucanews For Commentaries about Global Church, visit www.globalcatholic.com

Listen to current week’s news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 to 15 minutes.This week on the podcast, we are covering protests in Nepal and Indonesia. We will also look at a scandal in India, rights appeals in Cambodia, a hijab controversy in the Philippines and migration talks in Taiwan.Filed by UCA News reporters, presented by Joe Mathews, Cover photo by AFP, background score by Andre Louis, edited and produced by Binu Alex for Union of Catholic Asian News. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.comTo contribute please visit www.ucanews.com/donateOn X Follow Or connect through DM at : x.com/ucanewsTo view Video features please visit https://www.youtube.com/@ucanews For Commentaries about Global Church, visit www.globalcatholic.com

Signs of God’s kingdom are all around us. If we remember that, we will see them and thus build up our supply of oil so that at any time, in any way that God comes to us, we will be ready.About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com  For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.comTo contribute please visit www.ucanews.com/donateOn X Follow Or connect through DM at : x.com/ucanewsTo view Video features please visit https://www.youtube.com/@ucanews For Commentaries about Global Church, visit www.globalcatholic.com

Listen to current week’s news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 to 15 minutes.From a jailed Hong Kong activist to violent clashes in Bangladesh, communities across Asia face severe challenges as religious persecution, wildlife tragedies, and corruption scandals trigger widespread public outrage today. Here is your weekly news.Filed by UCA News reporters, presented by Joe Mathews, Cover photo by AFP, background score by Andre Louis, edited and produced by Binu Alex for Union of Catholic Asian News. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.comTo contribute please visit www.ucanews.com/donateOn X Follow Or connect through DM at : x.com/ucanewsTo view Video features please visit https://www.youtube.com/@ucanews For Commentaries about Global Church, visit www.globalcatholic.com

Remembering all saints becomes a reminder that God can be, and in fact is at work in the time, place and life which I live.About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com  For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.comTo contribute please visit www.ucanews.com/donateOn X Follow Or connect through DM at : x.com/ucanewsTo view Video features please visit https://www.youtube.com/@ucanews For Commentaries about Global Church, visit www.globalcatholic.com

Listen to current week’s news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 to 15 minutes.A captured fugitive in Cambodia, pressing water treaties in Bangladesh, Sri Lankan justice pleas, Mindanao's Indigenous struggles, Indonesian ecological crises, and modernizing Asian Catholic ministries. Here is your weekly news.Filed by UCA News reporters, presented by Joe Mathews, Cover photo by AFP, background score by Andre Louis, edited and produced by Binu Alex for Union of Catholic Asian News. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.comTo contribute please visit www.ucanews.com/donateOn X Follow Or connect through DM at : x.com/ucanewsTo view Video features please visit https://www.youtube.com/@ucanews For Commentaries about Global Church, visit www.globalcatholic.com

The law of Christ is simple. Love. Love God by loving your neighbor. And your neighbor is anyone close enough to be loved, anyone in the world.About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.com  For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.comTo contribute please visit www.ucanews.com/donateOn X Follow Or connect through DM at : x.com/ucanewsTo view Video features please visit https://www.youtube.com/@ucanews For Commentaries about Global Church, visit www.globalcatholic.com

Listen to current week’s news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 to 15 minutes.From controversial executions in Saudi Arabia and missing activists in Vietnam, to disaster fraud in Indonesia and student suspensions in the Philippines, citizens across Asia are demanding immediate justice. Tune in to listen.Filed by UCA News reporters, presented by Joe Mathews, Cover photo by AFP, background score by Andre Louis, edited and produced by Binu Alex for Union of Catholic Asian News. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.comTo contribute please visit www.ucanews.com/donateOn X Follow Or connect through DM at : x.com/ucanewsTo view Video features please visit https://www.youtube.com/@ucanews For Commentaries about Global Church, visit www.globalcatholic.com

About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.comWe Christians have been shown Christ, the image of God, so that we can proclaim that image to all the world. In order to do so, we must clear away whatever mars that image in us. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.comTo contribute please visit www.ucanews.com/donateOn X Follow Or connect through DM at : x.com/ucanewsTo view Video features please visit https://www.youtube.com/@ucanews For Commentaries about Global Church, visit www.globalcatholic.com

Listen to current week’s news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 to 15 minutes.In this week’s summary, a broadcaster is murdered in the Philippines, a China-North Korea bridge finally opens, mob violence erupts in Pakistan, and twenty-four South Korean Christians face arrest in Nepal.Filed by UCA News reporters, presented by Joe Mathews, Cover photo by AFP, background score by Andre Louis, edited and produced by Binu Alex for Union of Catholic Asian News. For news in and about the Church in Asia, visit www.ucanews.comTo contribute please visit www.ucanews.com/donateOn X Follow Or connect through DM at : x.com/ucanewsTo view Video features please visit https://www.youtube.com/@ucanews For Commentaries about Global Church, visit www.globalcatholic.com