Asia

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  8 February 2024
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako, message for Lent: in the time of fasting, may the Holy Spirit heal and protect our hearts from the darkness of the world Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - In the world that appears more and more "shrouded in darkness", this year again, the time of fasting and penance that the Church proposes before Easter comes to show our lives "a new horizon", and ...
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  7 February 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Manipur, torn by conflict, tries to reconnect the threads of dialogue Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Gratitude for the humanitarian and spiritual aid provided by Indian Catholic communities and NGOs to the people of Manipur, torn by conflict; waiting and patience because "the peace process is ...
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  7 February 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - A Christian look at the "Chinese New Year". The Lenten message of Bishop Joseph Gan Guangzhou (Agenzia Fides) - This year again, as happens from time to time, the beginning of Lent coincides with the festive days of the Chinese New Year. A coincidence linked to the fact that the two events are fixed in ...
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  6 February 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Parliamentary elections marked by economic crisis and political tensions Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Next February 8, the federal parliament, the so-called National Assembly, and the legislative assemblies of four provinces will be elected in Pakistan. The voters include 128 million eligible ...
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  5 February 2024
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Signature campaign to change the constitution: Bishops call for comprehensive public debate Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A confrontation, a reflection, a deeper and broader discernment on the proposals for revising the Constitutional Charter, in order to prevent the country from embarking on a dangerous slope towar ...
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  4 February 2024
  The Abu Dhabi prophecy, 5 years later by Gianni Valente Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On February 4, 2019, when the Bishop of Rome and the Grand Imam of Al Azhar signed the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together in Abu Dhabi, their une ...
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  4 February 2024
  ASIA/ARAB EMIRATES - Five years of Abu Dhabi Document: Bishop Martinelli underlines the prophetic significance Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - In this "dramatic moment in the history of humanity, marked by so many conflicts", the Document on Human Fraternity signed in Abu Dhabi by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al Azhar Ahmed al ...
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  3 February 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - On the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Archdiocese of Karachi: laying the foundation stone for a new church Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - In the area of Safoora Goth, a district in the eastern part of the metropolis of Karachi, capital of the Sindh province, in southern Pakistan, the number of Catholics has increased and the famil ...
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  2 February 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Day of Consecrated Life: six new nuns among the “Shanti Rani Sisters Dinajpur (Agenzia Fides) - The experience of consecrated life, a life entirely given to God, close to Him in prayer and charity, continues to attract young women in Bangladesh. This is what the Catechist Sisters of the ...
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  1 February 2024
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Third anniversary of the coup: "silent strike" and prayer Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Some Catholic faithful of Myanmar are spending the third anniversary of the coup carried out by the military junta on February 1, 2021 in silent Eucharistic adoration, praying the Rosary, placing ...
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  31 January 2024
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Peace and human brotherhood: King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa received the Apostolic Vicar of Northern Arabia Manama (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday, January 30, 2024, in the presence of three Ministers and the Protocol, His Majesty the King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, received Bishop Aldo Berardi, O.SS.T., Apostolic Vicar ...
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  31 January 2024
  ASIA/TURKEY - Reparation Mass in Istanbul church desecrated by the attack Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) – Tomorrow, Thursday, February 1st, at 7 p.m., a mass of reparation will be celebrated in the church of the Nativity of Our Lady in Büyükdere, in the Sariyer district, north of Istanbul, wher ...
• 31 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Consecration of Bishop of Shaowu (Minbei) Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today, Wednesday 31 January 2024, the episcopal ordination of the Reverend Pietro Wu Yishan took place. The Reverend Wu Yishan was appointed by the Holy Father on 16 December 2023 as bishop ...
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  31 January 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Peter Wu Yishun consecrated Bishop of Shaowu (Minbei) By Marta Zhao Nanping (Agenzia Fides) - A new Catholic Bishop - the third in less than a week - was consecrated today in the People's Republic of China. Peter Wu Yishun, 59, was ordained Bishop of the Apostolic Prefect ...
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  30 January 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - “Catholic Connect”: New app from the Catholic Church in India is all about synodality Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - "Creating networks, connecting to walk together, work together, evangelize together" is how Father Cyril Victor Joseph, Indian priest, coordinator of the Episcopal Commission for the Apostolat ...