Asia

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  26 March 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Connection and compassion: Caritas at the forefront in the fight against the coronavirus New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – Curbing the panic, helping the weakest, building trust: these are the action plans put in place by Carits India, at the forefront in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in India. This is ...
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  25 March 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - "May Mary protect the world". Christians and Muslims pray together on the feast of the Annunciation Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - This year, Lebanese Christians and Muslims will not be able to meet in squares and churches to venerate the Virgin Mary together on the Marian solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord, proclaime ...
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  25 March 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians in India: helping the poorest during the complete lockdown of the nation because of Covid-19 New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - It is urgent to take care of the poorest during the 21 days of total lockdown of the nation, imposed by the government until April 14, as a measure to contain the spread of COVID-19. Christian ...
• 25 March 2020
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - The country is unprepared to face the Coronavirus crisis Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "Afghanistan's health facilities are unable to deal with a pandemic like the Covid-19 pandemic. At the moment even the West is in difficulty, so we can only remotely imagine what could happen in a ...
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  24 March 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - "National week of prayer": the Bishops invite the faithful to support the doctors on the front line against Covid-19 Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Praying incessantly for doctors who are "on the front line" to fight against coronavirus: this is the invitation issued by the Filipino bishops and civil authorities to support health workers who ...
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  23 March 2020
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Bishops in the wake of Covid-19: "Let us look at the Cross of Christ" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "God allows calamities and tribulations, but also gives us the strength to overcome them. In this Lenten period of penance and conversion, let us joyfully overcome these sacrifices and sufferings ...
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  23 March 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - Syriac priest’s missing mother found dead in SE Turkey after 70 days Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The body of Şimoni Diril, the mother of Remzi Diril, a Catholic Chaldean priest in İstanbul, was discovered in a stream close to the village of Kovankaya, seventy days after the kidnapping pe ...
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  21 March 2020
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Jesuits: "Need to start a deep and sincere dialogue for the good of the Syrian people" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "The Syrian population lives in an uncertain and tiring condition, which is becoming unsustainable for the weakest, while there is a significant decrease of the Christian communities". This is wh ...
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  20 March 2020
  ASIA/IRAN - Coronavirus, Ayatollah to the Pope: "Help us to revoke the sanctions, especially for medical assistance" Teheran (Agenzia Fides) - Ayatollah Seyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad, a man for decades committed to bridging the distance between Iran and other countries in the world, wrote a heartfelt letter to Pope Francis, asking him ...
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  20 March 2020
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - Spiritual exercises via Skype in Central Asia: Bishops united in communion of prayer Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) - The first cases of Covid-19, and the related measures for the containment of the virus, have also reached Central Asia, causing the cancellation of the spiritual exercises of the Bishops of the ...
• 18 March 2020
  ASIA/JAPAN - Resignation of the Bishop of Sendai Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Sendai (Japan), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Martin Tetsuo Hiraga. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 18/3/202 ...
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  18 March 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Coronavirus, Lebanese churches offer residences and buildings for those infected and under quarantine Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Maronite diocese of Byblos started, where bishop Michel Aoun made a summer residence belonging to the eparchy available to coronavirus patients forced to isolate themselves. Then, yesterday e ...
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  18 March 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The island of Luzon closed due to coronavirus: the impact on the poorest and most vulnerable Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The "total lockdown" imposed for a month on the island of Luzon, the region where the capital Manila is located, to combat the coronavirus pandemic, will have a very strong impact, especially on ...
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  18 March 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - On March 20 a day of fasting and prayer to defeat the coronavirus Islamabad (Agenzia Fides): "In this moment of pain and suffering, I invite all the faithful of the diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi to observe a day of prayer and fasting on Friday 20 March 2020 to combat the threat of CO ...
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  17 March 2020
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Prayer and awareness on the coronavirus, while the nation celebrates the "Father of the fatherland" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "We are all informed about the coronavirus. The media reported that people from over 70 countries have been infected with the coronavirus. It has become a threat to some countries. On behalf of th ...