Asia

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  29 July 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Jesuits pay tribute to Fr Stan Swamy on National Day of Justice New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In celebrating the "National Day of Justice", on July 28, Indian citizens of the Christian religion and other faith communities remembered and paid great tribute to Fr. Stan Swamy, the Jesuit, ...
• 29 July 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the “St Joseph” Regional Seminary in Allahabad Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 3, 2021, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Wilfred Moras, of the diocesan clergy of Lucknow. The new Rec ...
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  28 July 2021
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Beit Sahour, work has begun to build a reception center in the "Shepherds' Field" Beit Sahour (Agenzia Fides) - The "Shepherds' Field", included in the Palestinian town of Beit Sahour, is one of the places most dear to the Christian memory of the birth of Jesus. In that locality, according to traditio ...
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  28 July 2021
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Support for the poor and the sick: the Church deeply involved in charity actions for the pandemic Ho Chi Minh City. (Agenzia Fides) - While Vietnam, considered a country that had successfully fought the pandemic, is affected by the fourth wave, in particular by the Delta variant of Covid-19, the dioceses of the Catho ...
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  28 July 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops' appeal to President Duterte: "Unity must be restored in the nation" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - President Rodrigo Duterte should use the remaining time of his presidential term (elections are scheduled for May 2022) to unite the nation and restore dignity to public services, in favor of cit ...
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  27 July 2021
  ASIA/JAPAN - During the Olympic Games marked by the pandemic, the urgency is "to take care of oneself and others" Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - "The most widespread attitude among the population of Japan was the request to cancel or postpone the Olympics, due to the pandemic, for fear of an increase in infections. The situation we are exp ...
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  27 July 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - State of emergency extended due to Coronavirus: between uncertainty and worry, missionaries do not stop Lamphun (Agenzia Fides) - "In the province many villages have been completely closed. The cathedral is closed in Chiangmai as well as all schools. There was also an outbreak in the interdiocesan seminary, 11 seminarians ...
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  27 July 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - There are 145 cases of violence against Christians in the first half of 2021: "Anti-conversion laws" are worrying New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In the first half of 2021 (from January to June) 145 cases of violence against Christians in India were documented: as reported in a note sent to Agenzia Fides by the Commission for Religious ...
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  26 July 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï: a new government is needed by August 4. But the "Mikati solution" does not convince Christian political leaders Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Everything possible must be done to give birth to a new Lebanese government by August 4, the day on which the first anniversary of the terrible explosion that devastated the Port of Beirut almost ...
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  26 July 2021
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Thirty-four new priests from the diocese of Vinh, who will also be 'fidei donum' missionaries in other territories Vinh (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a day of great joy, a day of great blessing in the diocese of Vinh, which rejoices for 34 new ordained priests who will also be missionaries, where the Lord will call them to proclaim and be ...
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  26 July 2021
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The Catholic community offers itself in the care of Covid patients and notes the sacrifice of the first Catholic priest Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Boniface Murmu, 66-year-old parish priest of the parish of Lohanipara in the diocese of Dinajpur is the first Catholic priest who died on July 10 from Covid-19, which hit Bangladesh hard. His ...
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  24 July 2021
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Day of indigenous clergy and contribution to the Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth and summoned from its far-off places, You whom I have called my servant, whom I have chosen and will not cast off": is the theme of the special ...
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  24 July 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - One year after the explosion, Caritas Lebanon takes stock of the situation as well as aid Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - One year after the tragic explosion in the port of Beirut, which killed more than 200 people, injured more than 7,500 and left about 300 people homeless, Caritas Lebanon has organized a Seminar d ...
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  24 July 2021
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Young people, "creative evangelizers" during the time of the pandemic Kota Kinabalu (Agenzia Fides) - May young people be "creative evangelizers" during the time of the pandemic: this is the invitation expressed by Msgr. John Wong, Archbishop of Kota Kinabalu, speaking at the "Sabah 5" You ...
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  23 July 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean bishops and priests on upcoming political elections: faith and ecclesial belonging are not to be exploited for electoral purposes Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - In the coming months, during the campaign in view of the political elections scheduled for October, it will be appropriate to ensure that the references to faith and ecclesial affiliations are not ...