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Sybil Kathigasu, potentially Malaysia’s first saint, at age 30. Kathigasu was a devout Catholic who is remembered in Malaysia for protecting information and housing and nursing local members of the anti-Japanese resistance during WWII.

Cardinal calls for beatification, canonization of WWII heroine and nurse from Malaysia

Jul 4, 2024

By Kate Quiñones

Sybil Kathigasu is a heroine and lay martyr who protected information and housed and nursed local members of the anti-Japanese... Read more

Pilgrims from Malaysia.

Malaysian Catholic bishops call for unity, ‘national recovery’ from pandemic

Sep 17, 2021

By Jose Torres, Jr.

The archbishop of Kota Kinabalu and the bishop of Keningau, both in Malaysia, called on Malaysians “to rise above” the... Read more

Cardinal Anthony Soter Fernandez, pictured in St. Peter's Basilica Nov. 19, 2016.

Malaysia’s first cardinal dies at age 88

Oct 28, 2020

Malaysia’s first cardinal died Wednesday at the age of 88. Read more