Asia

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  25 September 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Middle East Council of Churches: “comprehensive aggression” against Lebanon. Father Zgheib: attack in a village a few kilometers from the Maronite Patriarchate Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The ongoing military escalation in Lebanon has developed into a "comprehensive aggression against various Lebanese regions, resulting in the martyrdom of thousands of citizens and the displacemen ...
• 24 September 2024
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Father Alfonsus Widhiwiryawan appointed National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 5 September 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Father Alfonsu ...
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  24 September 2024
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - World Youth Day 2027 in Seoul: young people from all over the world to become “courageous missionaries” Rome (Agenzia Fides) - From a country where faith was transmitted “without the help of missionaries”, young people are to become “courageous missionaries” able to bear witness to the joy of the Gospel. This is th ...
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  24 September 2024
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Bishop Subroto Gomes: "Student protests" must respect the rights of others Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation we find ourselves in after the political and social crisis of last August is delicate. There are still tensions in society, there are protests, especially among young people. The ma ...
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  24 September 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - The memory of the Jesuit Martino Martini still opens up paths of encounter and dialogue by Marta Zhao and Laura Gomez Ruiz Hangzhou (Agenzia Fides) - China, the city of Hangzhou and the Chinese Catholic community have never forgotten Father Martino Martini. The great Jesuit missionary, appreciated by th ...
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  23 September 2024
  ASIA/ARAB EMIRATES - Bishop Martinelli closes the Jubilee of the Martyrs of Arabia: they are our roots Abu Dhabi (Agenzia Fides) - The Jubilee in honor of Saint Aretha and his Companions, Martyrs of Arabia, was also a precious opportunity to rediscover the long history of Christianity in Arabia, a history "rooted in the a ...
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  23 September 2024
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - President Dissanayake: the new face of the nation Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Anura Kumara Dissanayake is the new president of Sri Lanka, the Electoral Commission announced yesterday after the election on Saturday, September 21. A member of parliament with a left-wing pol ...
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  21 September 2024
  ASIA/VIETNAM - “WYO4children”: a musical project that heals wounds and opens people up Ho Chi Minh City (Agenzia Fides) - The orphans of the home run by the Missionary sisters of Charity in the diocese of Phu Cuong, in southern Vietnam, have learned that “music heals the wounds of the heart”, said Fr. ...
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  20 September 2024
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï condemns attack on the Lebanese people Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "Sadness" for the bloody attack that hit "almost three thousand Lebanese citizens" by turning their pagers and walkie-talkies into explosive devices, and his firm condemnation of the Israeli atta ...
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  20 September 2024
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Elections in the midst of an economic and political crisis: the people demand change Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Two years after the popular protests that led to the dismissal of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in the midst of a serious economic crisis, Sri Lanka is preparing to elect a new president. ...
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  20 September 2024
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian sentenced to death for blasphemy on WhatsApp Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Shagufta Kiran, a 40-year-old Pakistani Christian, was found guilty of blasphemy and sentenced to death under Article 295-C of the Penal Code for defaming the Prophet Muhammad through a messag ...
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  19 September 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Danger for Chinese Catholics: Bishops warn again about sects by Marta Zhao Ningbo (Agenzia Fides) - "Catholics must stay away from sects and their teachings, categorically refusing to attend their meetings. The baptized must persevere in the faith and adhere to the truths reve ...
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  19 September 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Wayanad landslide victims: joy for being alive and sadness for the current situation Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - Although the government has provided a fixed rent and food subsidy to the people seriously affected on July 29 by the landslides that devastated the Wayanad district in Kerala, the population ...
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  19 September 2024
  ASIA/INDIA - Holy Year under the sign of ecumenism: Catholic Church wants to include other Christian denominations New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - It will be a Holy Year that will be lived in India under the sign of ecumenism: this is what the President of the Latin Rite Bishops' Conference (CCBI) in India and Archbishop of Goa and Daman ...
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  18 September 2024
  ASIA/CHINA - Churches damaged by typhoons, ecclesial communities launch aid and reconstruction initiatives Shanghai (Agenzia Fides) - After Typhoon Yagi destroyed and damaged six churches on the island of Hainan, Typhoon Bebinca - the most powerful since 1949 - hit the Pudong area of Shanghai on September 16, affecting more t ...