Asia

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  26 October 2021
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Prayer, fasting, charity: mission in times of pandemic Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzi Fides) - "Even in difficult times, the Church of Vietnam has increased missionary and charitable activities, as a sign of solidarity towards the poor", declared the Bishops of Vietnam gathered in ...
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  26 October 2021
  ASIA - ASEAN summit without Myanmar Bandar Seri Begawan (Agenzia Fides) - The 38th and 39th Summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the most important event of the year for the regional association of Southeast Asia, opens today, 26 O ...
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  25 October 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Maronite Patriarch after riots in Tayyouneh: "It is the duty of the State to protect its people" Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The State has the task of "protecting its people". And if this does not happen, those who "defend their dignity and the security of their surroundings" should not be treated as a "scapegoat", sai ...
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  25 October 2021
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Cardinal D'Rozario: guaranteeing dignity and protection to the Rohingya Cox's Bazar (Agenzia Fides) - "We open our hearts to people who need our support to ensure their existence in this world", said Cardinal Patrick D'Rozario, after having visited, in recent days, the world's largest refuge ...
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  22 October 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - “United in Christ”. Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako pays a visit to Mar Awa III, the new Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The condition of the indigenous Christian communities in the delicate historical phase crossed by Iraq and the future that awaits them in the lands of their millenary roots were at the center of t ...
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  22 October 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - A mission at the service of young women Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It was the invitation of the Virgin Mary "Go, O my Handmaids", to push the Congregation of the Franciscan Handmaids of Mary, an Italian religious institute, born in Tuscany, to go to distan ...
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  22 October 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The military occupies a Baptist church: new episodes of attacks on Christians Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - The military in Myanmar devastated a Baptist church after attacking the village of Tlang Rua in the diocese of Hakha, in the Burmese state of Chin, in the northwestern area of Myanmar, and encampe ...
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  21 October 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Post-election controversy over the distribution of seats reserved for Christian candidates Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - A few days after the Iraqi parliamentary elections, which took place on Sunday, October 10, the foreseeable post-electoral controversies over the distribution of the 5 parliamentary seats reserv ...
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  20 October 2021
  ASIA/SYRIA - Melkite Patriarch Youssef Absi: the Gospel can be proclaimed only for "a force that is not ours" Latakia (Agenzia Fides) - In the present time, in which faith "is dying out in many regions of the world", one cannot become and remain Christian by virtue of human strategies and formation courses. One can flourish and ...
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  20 October 2021
  ASIA/MONGOLIA - The Apostolic Prefect: mission is nourished with the depth of faith Ulaanbaatar (Agenzia Fides) - Moving from "promptness" to a dimension of greater "depth". This is the need for the near future for the Church in Mongolia, according to what was highlighted by Msgr. Giorgio Marengo, Apost ...
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  20 October 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Food crisis for the poor: Jesuit alarm for food security New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The fact that the poor have no food in India, despite the fact that the nation has plenty of it, is a patent injustice: highlights the Indian Jesuit Fr. Irudhaya Jothi SJ, scholar and promoter ...
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  19 October 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Synod of Bishops on Synodality: For a Church on the move under the sign of mission Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Myanmar regards the Synod as a "fruitful opportunity to reconsider its character as a Church on the move, which is really missionary": This is what the Catholic Dioceses ...
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  19 October 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Archbishop of Bangalore refuses to collect data on the activities of Christian missionaries Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian churches are critical of the plans of the government of the Indian state of Karnataka to conduct special research and collection of data on the activities of missionaries and emp ...
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  18 October 2021
  ASIA/TURKMENISTAN - The Superior of the mission: "New creative forms of evangelizing" Ashgabat (Agenzia Fides) - The presence of the Catholic Church in Turkmenistan "is a very humble little flock in a land with an Islamic majority and for this reason it must keep a low profile, but this does not represent ...
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  18 October 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Abolition of the death penalty: a civil society campaign Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The campaign for the abolition of the death penalty, launched by civil society and embraced by Christian Churches and organizations, is intensifying in Indonesia. Several Indonesian civil soci ...