Asia

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  24 October 2026
  ASIA/MYANMAR - In Loikaw, the Church rises again among the displaced: difficulties are mounting, but faith is also growing, says the Vicar General by Paolo Affatato Loikaw (Fides News Agency) – In the early days, only a handful of people came to the cathedral. Then, slowly, word spread through the villages and among families scattered by the war: the priest ha ...
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  23 October 2026
  ASIA/INDIA - Young people march for democracy: for Jesuit Prakash: “A journey to preserve India’s soul” by Paolo Affatato New Delhi (Fides News Agency) – A march for democracy, calling for respect for voting rights and institutional reforms, is taking place today, 23 October, at the initiative of the national network ...
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  22 October 2026
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Lay missionaries for truth and justice: “Baptism calls us to transform society,” says president of Laiko by Paolo Affatato Manila – A mission of “truth and justice”, to be lived out in society and politics, in the fight against corruption and in solidarity with the most vulnerable: this is the vocation of Catholic ...
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  21 October 2026
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - Bishop Maculewicz: “Two new churches and a small community called to be salt and leaven in society” by Paolo Affatato Tashkent (Fides News Agency) – Two new parishes in a Muslim-majority country, and a small Catholic community quietly growing, step by step. In Uzbekistan, the Catholic Church is a numerically small ...
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  21 October 2026
  Strait of Hormuz blockade: Millions of women at risk of acute food insecurity by Cosimo Graziani Bandar Abbas (Fides News Agency) – In times of crisis, the most vulnerable members of the population are always the first to feel the impact. According to a recently published United Nations anal ...
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  20 October 2026
  ASIA/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Abu Dhabi celebrates the 800th anniversary of the death of Saint Francis. Bishop Martinelli: He became a man of peace from the horrors of war he experienced Abu Dhabi (Fides News Agency) – Saint Francis of Assisi “was not born a man of peace, but became one by learning from his failures, from the horror of war he experienced”. With these words, Bishop Paolo Martinelli, ...
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  20 October 2026
  ASIA/MYANMAR - In a Country wounded by war, children are called to be “missionaries of hope” Yangon (Fides News Agency) – In a situation marked by suffering and hardship, amid countless difficulties, “you too can become a missionary of hope today”: this was the appeal made during a gathering of more than 1 ...
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  20 October 2026
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Music that opens hearts to God: mission through beauty by Paolo Affatato Astana (Fides News Agency) – Some people enter a church out of curiosity, drawn by the sound of an organ or the voices of a choir. They sit down, listen and gaze at the icons and paintings, spendin ...
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  19 October 2026
  100 YEARS SINCE THE ORDINATIONS OF THE FIRST SIX CHINESE BISHOPS - Bishop Joseph Hu Ruoshan and the Diocese of Taizhou One hundred years after the ordination of the first six Chinese bishops consecrated in modern times, (October 28, 1926), Fides News Agency is dedicating a series of documentary profiles to these Successors of the Apostle ...
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  19 October 2026
  ASIA/INDIA - World Mission Sunday in Northeast India: prayer, animation, solidarity and peace Itanagar (Fides News Agency) – “As we celebrate the centenary of World Mission Sunday, the initiatives held throughout the Diocese of Miao have highlighted a central message: mission belongs to every baptized person. ...
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  19 October 2026
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - First ever AVONA Mission Sunday Cup concludes: Sport, fraternity and mission in the Gulf Manama (Fides News Agency) – Sixteen teams from Bahrain and other Gulf countries gathered on 16 October at Gosi Ground in Hoora, Manama, for the first edition of the AVONA Mission Sunday Cup, a six-a-side football tour ...
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  17 October 2026
  «On Fides & Considine» A reflexion by Rev. Lance P. Nadeau, M.M., Maryknoll Superior General by Father Lance P. Nadeau Rome (Fides News Agency) – If the Catholic world knows what is happening in the mission field today, we can thank one man and one remarkable vision. I’m speaking, of course, of my Marykno ...
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  16 October 2026
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Churches occupied by the military and Christian Communities struggling amid conflict: the story of a parish priest from Sagaing by Paolo Affatato Myitkyina (Fides News Agency) – “The civil war remains intense, and the situation is very difficult. Armed groups continue to fight in various parts of our area and maintain their positions aroun ...
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  15 October 2026
  ASIA/INDIA - In the month of the Rosary, a prayer for peace in Manipur as new violence breaks out Miao (Fides News Agency) — “Manipur has been in turmoil for four years, with new outbreaks of violence reported almost every day. Most of the violence is directed against innocent villagers and women. The situation a ...
• 15 October 2026
  ASIA/CHINA - Consecration of bishop of Haimen Vatican City (Fides News Agency) - Today, Thursday 15 October 2026, the Reverend Ignatius Ding Zuyao received episcopal ordination. On 24 August 2026, the Holy Father appointed him bishop of Haimen, Jiangsu Province, Chi ...