Asia

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  18 July 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - A commission of inquiry to stop the “blasphemy business” Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) – To curb the serious phenomenon of the “blasphemy business,” the Islamabad High Court (IHC) has ordered the government to create a special commission to investigate the growing number of ...
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  17 July 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - Rite of Admission: Deacons of Ningbo respond to the Lord's call with faith and charity Ningbo (Agenzia Fides) – The liturgical rite of admission of candidates to the priesthood is not only a celebration of the diocese, but also an opportunity of witness to young people. Thus, the Diocese of Ningbo decide ...
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  17 July 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Nine people sentenced for the murder of the Catholic priest from Mandalay Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - Nine people accused of the murder of Catholic priest Fr. Donald Martin Ye Naing Win, who was killed on February 14, 2025, have been sentenced to 20 years in prison by a court linked to the Mini ...
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  17 July 2025
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Dead and injured in Israeli attack on Catholic parish in Gaza Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – This morning, Thursday, July 17, around 10:30 a.m., the Latin Catholic parish of the Holy Family in Gaza was hit by a raid carried out by the Israeli army. According to a statement released ...
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  16 July 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Bishop visits refugee camp: "I am here to tell everyone that God loves you" Myitkyina (Agenzia Fides) - "Today the Lord Jesus says: Peace be with you. May God's grace and blessings be upon you. I thank everyone from the bottom of my heart for welcoming me as a Pastor. The Lord loved me, had merc ...
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  16 July 2025
  The BRICS + summit in Brazil raises the banner of multilateralism by Cosimo Graziani Rio de Janeiro (Agenzia Fides) - On July 6 and 7, the annual summit of the so-called BRICS countries took place in Rio de Janeiro. This forum of states was founded in 2009 and has grown in recent y ...
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  16 July 2025
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - 10th World Youth Peace Pilgrimage in the Demilitarized Zone: "There can be no world peace without peace on the Korean Peninsula" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "There can be no world peace without peace on the Korean Peninsula". This is the slogan that young Koreans launched, who gathered in the Demilitarized Zone (a strip of land created in 1953 after t ...
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  15 July 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - "Wedding without a dowry": the Chinese Catholic community promotes the gratuitousness of married life in a secularized society Taiyuan (Agenzia Fides) – Archbishop Meng Ningyou of Taiyuan, in the Chinese province of Shanxi, recommended in his homily at a church wedding last Sunday, July 13, that marriage, in the spirit of faith, be seen as a g ...
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  15 July 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Supreme Court declares large-scale mining legal: civil society promotes "environmental justice" Mamburao (Agenzia Fides) - The Supreme Court's recent decision to declare null and void the ordinances and resolutions of provincial governments that imposed a 25-year moratorium on mining activities in the province of W ...
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  14 July 2025
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians accused of blasphemy continue to seek justice Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Asif Pervaiz, a 42-year-old Pakistani Christian, has been in prison for 12 years after being sentenced to death for blasphemy by a Lahore court in 2020. This is just one of many cases in which th ...
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  14 July 2025
  ASIA/SYRIA - Archbishop Jacques Mourad: Jesus wants His Church to remain in Syria by Gianni Valente Homs (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Jacques Mourad returned just a few days ago from participating in the Synod of Bishops of the Syriac Catholic Church in Rome. And he had a lot to do after his retur ...
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  13 July 2025
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - Young people happy to follow their vocation: the Major Seminary in Dili celebrates its first 25 years Dili (Agenzia Fides) – Young people happy to live their vocation by following Christ and serving the Church every day. This is the reality that is lived at the Saints Peter and Paul Major Seminary in Dili in East Timor ...
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  12 July 2025
  ASIA/CHINA - The Word of God at the center of the formation meetings of 168 lay people from four dioceses Hangzhou (Agenzia Fides) - Reading and deepening one's understanding of Sacred Scripture "is the source of our faith": this was the theme of Father Lv Shoude, lecturer at the Sheshan Seminary of the Diocese of Shanghai a ...
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  12 July 2025
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Online gambling is a "public health crisis that destroys society": Bishops call for it to be declared illegal Manila (Agenzia Fides) - In the gambling addiction treatment centers run by Caritas, Catholic organizations, and communities in the Philippines, the number of cases of online gambling addiction is increasing, a trend fue ...
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  11 July 2025
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Three Bishops of war-torn regions address the faithful in a joint pastoral letter: "Do not let your hearts be troubled" Myitkyina (Agenzia Fides) - In the face of terrible events such as the bloody civil war and the earthquake that devastated central Myanmar, the three bishops of the Burmese dioceses of Myitkyina, Banmaw, and Lashio (in n ...