Asia

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  18 June 2024
  VATICAN - New book on the figure of Cardinal Celso Costantini: "Bridge builder” with China
  By Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Especially towards the Chinese, I thought it appropriate not to confirm in any way the suspicion that the Catholic religion is under the protect ...
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  18 June 2024
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Economy recovers: poverty rate remains high, population calls for new presidential elections Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - The economic situation in Sri Lanka is beginning to recover after the two-year economic crisis that followed the default declared in April 2022 and the four-year bailout package through loans fr ...
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  17 June 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Pope Francis and invites him to visit India New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "I met Pope Francis on the sidelines of the G7 Summit. I admire his commitment to serving people and improving our planet. I also invited him to visit India," said India's Prime Minister Naren ...
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  15 June 2024
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Cardinal Francis: “In an ‘Asian microcosm’ we experience the interaction of differences” Penang (Agenzia Fides) - "It is the pluralism of cultures and ethnic groups that makes Malaysia a 'miniature Asia'. The coexistence of different components allows the Catholic community to experience the interaction of d ...
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  14 June 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Violence and poverty in a never-ending conflict Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Myanmar is the most violent place in the world, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED). The international, non-profit and independent organization collects, class ...
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  14 June 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Where does the great devotion of Chinese Catholics to the Sacred Heart of Jesus come from? by Marta Zhao Shijiazhuang (Agenzia Fides) - According to the "Guide to the Catholic Church in China" edited by the great French missionary Jean Charbonnier (1932-2023), there are over 200 parishes, churches and chap ...
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  13 June 2024
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - "Smile and the world will smile at you": World Children's Day celebrated for the first time in Bahrain Awali (Agenzia Fides) - More than 500 children of different nationalities took part in World Children's Day, celebrated for the first time in the Catholic community of the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia. "It ...
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  13 June 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Fraternity and mercy, the words that express the meaning of the Pope's visit to Indonesia Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - The importance of Pope Francis' visit to Indonesia will be marked by the two terms that will also be the leitmotif of his presence in the Asian archipelago: fraternity and mercy. This is what th ...
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  13 June 2024
  ASIA/IRAQ - Cardinal Sako returns to Baghdad: "We are not a Church of strangers" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "We are not a Church of strangers" because "we are the descendants of Abraham the Chaldean, the father of all believers" and "we are one of the colors of the beautiful Iraqi fabric that must be ...
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  12 June 2024
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi government recognizes Chaldean Patriarch Sako as responsible for the properties of the Chaldean Church Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - A decree signed by Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa al-Sudani "appoints" Iraqi Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako as Patriarch of the Chaldean Church "in Iraq and in the world" and recognizes him as ...
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  12 June 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - More violence in Manipur: residents vote for opposition coalition Imphal (Agenzia Fides) - In the troubled state of Manipur, in north-east India, there are renewed signs of tension and violence. After the parliamentary elections and the inauguration of Narendra Modi, leader of the nati ...
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  12 June 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Belgian delegation led by Cardinal Jozef De Kesel visits mainland China Ulaan Chab (Agenzia Fides) - A five-member Belgian delegation led by Cardinal Jozef De Kesel, Archbishop Emeritus of Malines-Brussels and President of the Ferdinand Verbiest Foundation of Leuven is visiting China. The d ...
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  11 June 2024
  ASIA/VIETNAM - The legacy of Pope John XXIII shapes studies at the Academy in Vinh Vinh (Agenzia Fides) - Humility, goodness, listening, gentleness, attention to the "little ones" and the "last" must characterize the path of study and integral and missionary formation, in the sign of patience and in-de ...
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  11 June 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - “Open, inclusive, innovative, rational”. Chinese universities and scholars praise the philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas and publish the "Summa Theologiae" in Chinese Wuhan (Agenzia Fides) - "Openness, inclusiveness, innovation, rationality" and many other characteristics of the philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) were the focus of the "Fifth National Forum on Medieval Phil ...
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  10 June 2024
  ASIA/IRAQ - Ten years after the ISIS occupation: less than 50 Christian families have returned to Mosul by Gianni Valente Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - Mosul, ten years later. It was June 10, 2014 when the jihadist militiamen of the Islamic State (IS) managed for the first time to raise their black flags in the second Iraqi ci ...